For months, I have been warning that Malta's public finances cannot be treated as if they have no limits. Before the general election, I argued that the country needed to confront the sustainability...

Brussels published its EU KIDS Act last month, and Malta's commissioner claimed a share of the credit. Glenn Micallef told the Times of Malta that the Act will help tackle declining reading skills,...

The United Nations General Assembly is always a major event. World leaders deliver speeches that make global headlines. This year was no different. Top of the leaders' agenda was the war in Ukraine,...

In all countries, under all governments, protests get organised. The more so if it's a democratic country. When protests happen, they can serve as evidence of the existence of democracy, although by...

Deciding where to build a career involves more than merely examining gross figures. By utilising the latest data from Eurostat, it is intriguing to observe the comparisons between Malta and other EU...

Almost 50% of fifteen-year-olds in Malta and Gozo struggle to read well enough to grasp the main idea of a text. This month the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) published...

The power of the media to influence public discourse makes journalists an attractive target for illegitimate government control. Thomas Jefferson once famously remarked that if he had to choose...

The idea that it needs to be reformed was floated long ago. Yet the rule still stands practically as it was before the euro crisis of 2008-2012. It was intended to lock the euro zone into a...

Last summer appears to have been a productive time for government to churn out ill-thought bills. On two previous occasions, I commented on the bill proposing to establish the Human Rights Commission...

Last week set out the balance sheet inherited in 2007: a corporation with negative operating cash flow, rising debt, and a legal countdown on its oldest power station. This week: how it got there. The...