Malta’s National post-pandemic strategy, which has been launched before the end of Q2 2021, outlines an ambitious plan to help our country build back better in the wake of COVID-19. The...

No matter what some may be claiming: Prime Minister Abela is doing a good job of keeping the right balance between the progress achieved in the years prior to his premiership, and the changes that his...

In Malta’s public sphere it is rather common to see young people being active in various areas, expressing dissent toward economic, social, and environmental policies and practices. When...

Last April, it was reported that the Maltese Government was seeking Euro 290 million in state aid for Air Malta to turn the airline into a sustainable and profit-making enterprise. Such measures are...

Since the 2008-2012 financial crisis, a big problem in the European banking sector was that too many banks continued to carry the burden of loans they had made and which had become dud. Borrowers...

One cannot overstate that Malta’s extreme smallness makes our sovereignty an unusual case. It exists as a fluke, as a freak of history.  If we learn good management and behave correctly, we...

Malta’s grey-listing by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) may have caught some on the wrong foot.  The writing, however, has been on the wall for some time. The language of good...

Facing so many problems, the recent grey-listing of Malta may have already faded from the consciousness of many people.  Many of us are not conversant with the world of high finance and beyond...

Robert Abela likes to play the international card.  Malta will be the best in the world.  Malta will be the best in Europe.  Malta will emerge from the FATF grey-listing stronger than...

The post-pandemic strategy for Malta published this week provides 114 initiatives which, clustered under twelve different thematic areas, seek to provide answers to three important questions as we are...