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...

Speaking for the people requires us to listen before, question and understand realities. I have always mistrusted those who speak too much without taking the time to understand and while politics...

Finally the penny has dropped... we have begun to understand, or some of us at least have so understood, that in our country there exists a current of racist opinion and belief. Such a realization has...

"No single book is as relevant to the present moment," the New York Times commented about 'How fascism works' by Jason Stanley, the Jacob Urowsky professor of philosophy at Yale...

The question has arisen whether former EU Commissioner John Dalli enjoys immunity from prosecution. While EU law does afford immunity, I think that it applies only if an official breaks the law in the...