Malta is not currently a member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), a body of 38 countries that collaborate to promote economic growth, prosperity, and sustainable...

Robert Abela and Alex Borg are complicit in the farcical performance that is debasing the upcoming general election campaign. It is a mode of politics hopelessly inadequate for the challenges that we...

May began with a series of shocks and disappointments for the Nationalist Party and those who identify with it. In Malta's tribal politics you are born on one side and generally you keep to that side...

Two weeks have already passed since the start of the electoral campaign, and the contrast between the Labour Party and the Nationalist Party, particularly that between Prime Minister Robert Abela and...

At one time, elections were being held every four years. Then, I believe since the Independence Constitution came into force, elections began covering a maximum of five years in government for the...

An octogenarian photographer Virgilio Carnisio from Milan, speaking to the Financial Times Magazine last weekend, expressed sadness over the gradual alteration of his city's case di ringhiera. These...

Likely, Trump's war in Iran will be of long duration. What impact will it have on international tourism in the medium term? What has been obvious right from the start was that the countries of the...

When his Agriculture minister Anton Refalo told Italian journalists that he did not know who Toto Riina was, Robert Abela leapt to his defence. And what better way is there to protect your embattled...

As we prepare to go to the polls, it is worth remembering that voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, to this country and to the world.  Voting in Malta used to be...

Malta's public administration runs on a digital infrastructure built outside Europe. Government office automation is foreign. The state cloud is foreign. School systems are foreign. The platforms on...