The term ‘Blue Economy’ has become one of the policy buzzwords of our times. It was introduced during the Rio+20 United Nations conference in 2012 and was later adopted by various...

A question posed recently by a journalist was, I thought, extremely intriguing: Have the Maltese fallen out of love with the EU? she asked. Eurobarometer, the public opinion poll which regularly...

The purpose of this book review is twofold: to briefly introduce to the reader the author of this volume, together with his juristic contribution. In this case, the author is Judge Dr Silvio Meli,...

Why does Labour get top marks when it marks its own homework but fails abysmally when external assessors rate it?   Social Justice Minister Michael Falzon bragged in January 2021 that...

Regional development policy seeks to improve the well-being of regions. Within the European Union it is commonly referred to as the cohesion policy. Through regional policy one seeks to eliminate...

A few years ago we debated whether divorce should be introduced in Malta. Then we accepted. Since then, divorce has come to form part of the landscape. The much threatened tsunami of family breakdowns...

The restoration work on the Onorati Oratory of the Church of the Jesuit in Valletta is nearly finished. The Onorati Oratory is the second and last Oratory to be restored.  Soon, we will start...

European laws are meant to apply across all the EU. In doing so, they introduce the same criteria and the same way by which to deal with issues in situations which frequently are greatly dissimilar....

Disaster situations in the Mediterranean area have multiplied. Enormous fires in Spain, Portugal, France and Greece. A huge earthquake in Morocco. A flood in Libya. A volcano eruption in Sicily. And...

On 3 September 2023 the European Convention on Human Rights celebrated its 70th anniversary of its entry into force. Andrew Z. Drzemczewski opines that on 23 October 1953 the United Kingdom had...