In the modern governance of parliamentary democracies, regulatory agencies have been allocated a leading role. Once the idea that economic affairs should be run according to free trade principles...

In the Cold War satirical novel ‘The Mouse That Roared’, Count Rupert of Mountjoy, the Prime Minister of the European Duchy of Grand Fenwick (half the size of Gozo) declares war on the...

A Rumanian minister had to resign for having stated the belief that peace negotiations should bring the Ukraine war to an end. Other politicians in various countries were censored for having made...

On 14 December 2012, Adam Lanza shot 26 people dead at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, USA.  20 of them were six or seven year old children. The rest were adult staff members....

The budget for 2023 presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana last Monday may be described as one which reinforces a culture of dependency. Government handouts are used, left, right...

So Budget Day has come and gone and all those who wanted have had the opportunity to have their say. Institutionally, the Opposition’s reaction comes in the coming days – but don’t...

In these past three years, the European continent and other corners of the globe have faced significant circumstances which created challenges that no one could have predicted or imagined. ...

The budget for the year 2023 has been driven in the right direction, maintaining a reasonable balance between social and economic goals. It is quite clear that whatever has been said about it, the...

In a number of European countries, feelings of anxiety have spread at the state of affairs in the economy, political developments, indeed defence and security. Clearly, Putin’s war has given...

The Labour Party has been taken to the cleaners. It faced a frenzied attack of damning accusations. Who was behind this public assault on Labour? “How did Malta finish in this shambles we...