The Labour Party's latest proposals for first-time buyers are being presented as a lifeline for young people struggling to enter the property market. In reality, it risks worsening the very problem it...

Malta's new National Homework Policy is presented as a forward-looking reform, one that shifts emphasis from quantity to quality while safeguarding student wellbeing. On paper, the rationale appears...

The first week of the general election campaign has thrown up everything that the people have come to expect: mass rallies in every corner of the country, billboards as far as the eye can see, and...

The decision by Robert Abela to call an early general election, a full year ahead of schedule, raises many questions. Governments do not typically shorten their own mandate without compelling reasons....

Away from the mass meetings, the billboards, the flyers, the house visits, and the meet and greets, there are a lot of intricacies to running a general election purely from a procedural point of...

May Day remains one of the most politically and socially charged dates on Malta's calendar, but its meaning has not stood still. What began as a struggle for basic dignity at work has evolved...

Prime Minister Robert Abela's pledge that by 2030 a quarter of Malta's generated energy will come from renewable sources is, on paper, welcome. Any commitment to accelerate the country's painfully...

Malta heads into an early general election campaign that, while not unexpected, carries significant weight. The decision by Robert Abela to call the country to the polls ahead of schedule sets the...

When a government unveils a 15-year vision for a mass transport system - one that could reshape the country's infrastructure and address one of its most persistent problems - one would expect the full...

There was a strange lack of coordination across the government in the last week - particularly between a press conference given by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana on Wednesday and a press conference...