It was a rather dubious accolade earlier this week when the concessionaires of the country's passport-selling programme labelled the Maltese programme as the top citizenship-by-investment programme in...

The constitutional court case filed by Opposition Leader Adrian Delia, in which he is insisting that he too should be given a full copy of the Egrant inquiry, took another turn for the bizarre...

The annual ritual of Budget Day follows a very predictable path. First, the minister's speech, which follows the minister's presentation to the media. Then the immediate reactions from the prime...

The European Parliament yesterday, by an overwhelming majority, backed a major crackdown on the scourge of plastic pollution, in particular cracking down on single use plastics - banning  ...

With the storms of autumn descending upon us, summer is well and truly over, and with it the human migration season ends as well.  As everyone in this neck of the woods is well aware, seas are...

Budget 2019, read out last night by Minister Edward Scicluna, is not just promoting continuity, but also spreading the proceeds from the growth registered these past years.  As was widely...

The much-awaited budget speech will be delivered this evening in Parliament by Finance Minister Edward Scicluna.  Ahead of this evening’s speech, we take a look at what we think are some of...

There are two direly needed inquiries on the horizon, both of which are unprecedented and both concern the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, whose grim anniversary was marked this...

The government once again appears to have walked the tightrope and struck what it considers to have been a delicate balance between what it is being demanded by Brussels and that which is being...

It is not a coincidence, and neither is it a surprise, that Simon Busuttil and Jason Azzopardi embarrassed their own political party with their behaviour in Parliament and outside these past few days....