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...

Gradually, at par with questions regarding the success or otherwise of economic growth policy or regarding the correct implementations of social justice, another topic has been getting incessant...

From one decade to another, one thing remains constant: Pavements are Malta’s policy Cinderellas. To me, this represents a deficit in everyday democracy. The country’s policy elites...

This week a controversy flared up after Carlos Zarb was appointed Governor on the FinanceMalta board (Government representative).  The ‘socials’ were alight with comments being thrown...

The news of a 19-year old sitting on one of the most important executive boards of government’s machinery provoked two contradictory feelings. On the one hand, how good it would be to involve...

Once the Covid-19 pandemic is well and truly over, the big challenge will be how to once again restore connectivity – the ties... personal and family-based, economic, social and cultural......

I'm repeatedly confirming that reading about a politician's speech as reported by the media is one thing; hearing it from the politician's mouth is something else altogether. The media can serve as a...

A public consultation is currently under way relative to green roofs and green walls. A 42-page document entitled Green Paper on Greening Buildings in Malta: Initiatives for Green Walls and Roofs for...

Forget Covid. Forget the incessant bickering between the two great parties, the two spent forces living on memories and spin, on clientelism and mutual accusations of corruption, graft and...