On the 16th November, 2021, I took part in the Ministerial Conference in Brussels on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East organised by the...

It should be unacceptable that when citizens’ rights in a democracy have been established -- meaning that they have been given full legal recognition -- they then get revoked by political...

“If I did not support her nomination I would be doing exactly what she did to our country.  Therefore the answer is yes, I support her”. This was the twisted logic of Prime Minister...

When Parliament, some years back, approved the Standards in Public Life legislation it did not arrive at any conclusions on the regulation of lobbying. It postponed consideration of this important...

For the first time in history we are celebrating the Day of the Mediterranean: today 28th November. As the Union for the Mediterranean we want this day to show us that what unites is stronger than...

We have now reached the stage where a senior minister publicly admits to a serious disagreement with another minister in the same Cabinet. Reading this last Sunday I was amazed that people seemed...

The Labour MEPs and corps staff like Cyrus Engerer have spent at least the last 8 years on a character assassination of MEPs Robert Metsola and David Casa, from the EPP party.  The constant...

Trafficking in human beings takes many forms and affects people of all ages, genders, and races.   From the physical violence and torture of victims, to the psychological and emotional...

Nostalgic for a past which he clearly believed to be better than the present in which he lived, the French poet of the early Renaissance Francois Villon asked in one of his poems... But where have the...

Around this time last year, in my op-ed in The Malta Independent, I presented a short snapshot of the Covid-19 situation in Malta and beyond in the run-up to Christmas. This was a time when infection...