While Europe is facing another summer of vessels full to the brim with migrants looking for greener and safer pastures, the response so far from the vast majority of the European Union has shown many...

The world as we know it is changing before our eyes. Ever since America elected Donald Trump as its President, the United States policy has been pushed by a rich populist stream. On the one...

It was a curious situation on Tuesday when, for the first time since its inception, journalists were not invited down to The Granaries to have a look at the preparations underway for last...

The price of one of the most basic foodstuffs – bread – is set to increase by some 25% in the coming days.  The reports announcing the increase, first published by the Nationalist...

Minister Konrad Mizzi won a libel case and has been crowing all over Facebook about it. One would have thought this was a do-or-die libel case where his reputation was at stake. It is what...

President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca was criticised by many individuals last week for having signed the IVF Bill when she did not agree with its contents. Yet it seems that most of this criticism was...

For Europe, there is more on the line at today’s mini-emergency summit on migration than national egos: there are several thousand lives at stake, as well as the European Union’s very...

That this administration prefers concrete to trees and agricultural land was never a secret, and today it is a given. We have grown accustomed to scheme after scheme in which the environment comes out...

A bird in the hand is most definitely not worth two in the bush, at least according to the European Court of Justice when it comes to the trapping of finches in Malta. The ECJ yesterday closed...

Every month we hear that a new record has been reached of people coming to Malta. It seems amazing how month after month we get more people in and yet we don't get people sleeping on the streets or...