This week, in one and the same week, three illustrious has-beens lost their heads. As Giulio Andreotti said, or more exactly would have said, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely...

The New National Agency for the Performing Arts (NAPA) is bringing together KorMalta, TeatruMalta, and ŻfinMalta.  Why?   It’s because we want...

Changes are being prepared to ease European regulations which establish how companies, especially the smaller ones, can issue a call for the public to buy shares in their enterprise. In Europe this...

The 2004 pension reform group’s terms of reference focused on achieving a sustainable and adequate pension for future generations. In setting up the framework for reform, the group sought to...

Up to not so long ago, the idea of wisdom and prudence (called għaqal in Maltese) used to mean that in the main, people would spend only money that they already had in hand while seeking to save...

This article discusses a fundamental juristic concept in law - the human rights maxim of legal certainty – that has been the subject of discussion by various political and legal philosophers and...

The activists who fixed banners outside the Zurrieq constituency office of Ministers Miriam Dalli and Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi were right in what they did. All other channels being closed, this was the...

“This insistence on ‘let’s kick them out’, honestly I cannot understand”.  Minister Silvio Schembri was commenting about a family that is illegally occupying Fort...

Speaking at the Malta Institute of Accountants’ biennial conference last week, Finance Minister Clyde Caruana referred to an as yet unpublished study carried out by the Economic Policy...

Beyond the political ding dong, I frequently meet people who are worried about the changes (which for them appear to be huge) that have been occurring around them. Not in public management, but in the...