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When a government needs public support

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:14 Last update: about 12 months ago Frans Camilleri

If there is anything we have learned over the last five decades, it is that structural reforms generate long‐term growth benefits.  This is true in both the economic and social fields, in...

Nature does not discriminate

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 08:03 Last update: about 12 months ago Carmel Cacopardo

At Belem, gateway to the Amazon, in Brazil, this week, world leaders, scientists, activists, negotiators, diplomats, indigenous peoples and other affected communities are gathering for...

Governance, not design, will make automatic enrolment work

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 07:22 Last update: about 12 months ago David Spiteri Gingell

Automatic enrolment (AE) is on its way.  It is the biggest pension change Malta has seen in twenty years.  It will shape how we save for the future - and show how ready our institutions are...

Political cowardice

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 07:19 Last update: about 12 months ago Mark Said

Leadership that demonstrates courage and honour should not be an exception, but the bare minimum that voters should demand. Constitutional duty requires courage, not conformity. A lack of political...

Ample areas of potential growth

Sunday, 16 November 2025, 07:11 Last update: about 12 months ago Noel Grima

I have had enough of voices of gloom and doom, forecasting all sorts of negatives for this our country. What haven't we heard? That we're doomed. That all the best of our young cannot wait to...

A monument for Karmenu

Friday, 14 November 2025, 10:10 Last update: about 12 months ago Owen Bonnici

I never called Dr Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici by his name:  "Karmenu." To me, he was always Dr Mifsud Bonnici, or just Dr Karm.  I had spent a good seven years studying and working with him...

We don't smile

Thursday, 13 November 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 12 months ago Alfred Sant

An article published recently that quite impressed me described how we Maltese consider foreign workers in Malta and how we treat them: at best, we regard them as a pain in the neck, and when...

Surrogacy: A complex legal web

Thursday, 13 November 2025, 07:44 Last update: about 12 months ago Mark Said

Last September, Labour Party MP Rosianne Cutajar stated that Malta must address the realities of surrogacy in the country and come up with solutions that recognise and protect parents' fundamental...

Airlines

Monday, 10 November 2025, 08:00 Last update: about 12 months ago Alfred Sant

It is true that the so-called "low cost" airlines have managed to create an enormous tourism market which provided millions of people with the opportunity to travel, since the cost of going abroad...

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