When Malta’s EU accession negotiations approached the final stages, a merger of the then Planning Authority and the Department for the Environment was announced. .  While the...

As we approach the half way mark of this Labour legislature everyone has their own interpretation of its performance.  It is controversial, baffling, and widely subjective since so much of what...

The Greek vote has put Europeans in a quandary. It has ended up dividing Europe into two if not three blocks. There is a block,which will be looking more and more towards America. This is led by...

 In a newspaper article in March this year, the President of the Medical Association of Malta, Gordon Caruana Dingli, wrote about what any reform of our health system needed. “There should...

So the laws against pornography, blasphemy and the vilification of “the Roman Catholic Church and other cults recognised by law” are to be repealed. And not before time: they were already...

It was interesting this week in Strasbourg to observe the reaction of European parliamentarians and others to the referendum results in Greece. Many seemed stunned and unable to understand what...

There is no greater love than that of a parent.  Don’t we all know this?  People who are fortunate enough to be parents and were handed this privilege know well-enough that they would...

At different junctures over the years, pensioners have received the short end of the stick.  Although a minimal number of classes of pensioners were granted a revision, however piteous, in the...

I have mixed feelings regarding the manner both the Government and the Opposition have been discussing and looking at the Greek crisis. On the one hand, I cannot but agree with the way, Finance...

The results of the Tsipras referendum need to be assessed in a way that brings out clearly the meaning of the choices which the Greek people – as well as the peoples of the European Union...