By all the signs Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had his eyes firmly on the prize this week, the particular prize being one of the European Union’s coveted top jobs.  But it seems that...

Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi has made a very strong claim over the last few days, but his claim has so far remained unsubstantiated.  Speaking at the Council of Europe, after the approval of a...

Air Malta and the pilots’ association (ALPA) are going head-to-head yet again, with industrial action having been temporarily put-off yesterday. The reasons for the industrial action also...

The recently launched regulations for the construction sector are very clearly a rush job. We are not the only ones saying this. In fact, the heads of the two main stakeholder groups in the...

On Thursday, the finance minister unveiled a raft of major reforms to strengthen the country’s fight against financial crime. A new Financial Organised Crime Agency to investigate and...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat simply cannot be believed when he says he doesn’t know which government ministry employs Neville Gafa.  He is, after all, the Prime Minister and it is not as...

Wednesday evening's session at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe was nothing short of an exercise in abject humiliation for the government and, by default, for the nation as a...

Last week we reported a Eurostat release which said that in the first quarter of 2019, hourly labour costs in Malta rose by just 1.9%. According to Eurostat, the highest annual increases in...

The minister responsible for planning and now even the Prime Minister himself have both unequivocally and in no uncertain terms stated that the Planning Authority board member who had become embroiled...

Both Malta and Poland have had their share of controversy of late when it comes to the judiciary.  In Poland, it is about when members of the judiciary are to leave the bench for retirement while...