The Malta Independent 13 May 2025, Tuesday
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TMID Editorial: Commitment to dignified end-of-life care

Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 10:01 Last update: about 9 hours ago

The recent presentation of Malta's National Palliative Care Strategy 2025-2035 - incidentally just days before a national consultation exercise on a form of euthanasia was launched - marks a pivotal...

TMID Editorial: The number of vehicles continues to rise

Monday, 12 May 2025, 09:54 Last update: about 1 day ago

The number of vehicles on the roads is continuing to rise, data published by the National Statistics Office shows. In the first quarter of this year, each day 19 more vehicles were licensed than...

TMIS Editorial - The American Pope: Leo XIV’s mission

Sunday, 11 May 2025, 10:15 Last update: about 2 days ago

The election of Pope Leo XIV marked a watershed moment in the long history of the Catholic Church. Born Robert Francis Prevost in Chicago in 1955, Leo XIV became the first American to ascend to the...

TMID Editorial: A welcome consensus on miscarriage leave

Thursday, 8 May 2025, 10:03 Last update: about 5 days ago

The rare convergence of opinion between unions and employer organisations on the issue of miscarriage leave presents the government with a unique opportunity and a responsibility to legislate swiftly...

TMID Editorial: Church at the crossroads

Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 08:13 Last update: about 6 days ago

As the Catholic Church looks ahead to the election of a new pope, it finds itself at a defining moment. The successor to Pope Francis will not merely inherit a symbolic mantle but a Church grappling...

TMID Editorial: SMEs are concerned

Tuesday, 6 May 2025, 10:08 Last update: about 7 days ago

A recent survey found that 70% of SMEs believe that Malta is moving in the wrong direction. The Malta Chamber of SMEs detailed its survey findings from the SME Barometer Q1 2025 and, while the...

TMID Editorial: Malta and press freedom

Monday, 5 May 2025, 10:48 Last update: about 8 days ago

As always happens on World Press Freedom Day, which was last week, World Press Freedom Index rankings for 2025 were published by Reporters Without Borders. Malta ranked 67th, an improvement over...

TMIS Editorial: A legal defeat and a crisis of integrity

Sunday, 4 May 2025, 11:00 Last update: about 9 days ago

The European Court of Justice's ruling against Malta's citizenship-by-investment scheme is more than a legal setback. It's the culmination of a decade of political decay, institutional failure, and...

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