European socialists are doing the right thing – and I am fully aligned with what they’re stating – when they insist on the priority of an environmental policy that will contain...

“Kite flying” is a strategy used in politics to test the people’s reaction to a particular proposal or issue: you broach a proposal, without too much commitment, and see what...

Our social sector needs a good shake up – I have been saying this ad nauseam. In these last years we have morphed into our comfort zone thinking that all is well. We keep telling ourselves...

This week my mobile phone went berserk with messages from acquaintances close and far on the Prime Minister’s leaked letter to the President of the European Council on the supposed European...

Perhaps the main rule to follow in the public management of a democratic state is that of transparency – the need for all citizens to get timely information about matters that are being decided....

I don’t know about you, but I am seriously concerned over this sudden cultural change that is occurring among us. It is an Italian trait, particularly from nearby Sicily, which historically...

Solar rights are once more in the public debate. The number of those aware that utilising solar energy for our needs makes both environmental and economic sense is on the increase. Unfortunately, they...

Those entering Valletta can see on the right hand side a steel structure which is not in use. That is a lift which was intended to take people down to the ditch and which was meant to offer a...

In any other country, by now, with all the steady stream of unethical behaviour, of clear cases of corruption, of a Mafia-state, of denial of civil-society, of a blatant take-over of land and a...

There is no doubt that the newly hatched, just served, recently unpacked €95.5 billion EU Research and Innovation Fund is the biggest and largest programme in the whole world in its...