The government has all but declared open war on the NGOs plying the Mediterranean to save lives by blocking rescue ships in port, arraigning their captains and banning others from entering. It has...

The police question the captain of a ship who saved 234 lives, and arraign him on charges that he broke maritime law, and yet a minister and the prime minister’s chief of staff are not even...

The real threat from irregular migration is not the people who are seeking asylum but, rather, those raging racists amongst us who by all rights should be thrown into an asylum. After Italy...

For yet another day the Sea-Watch 3 and the Lifeline NGO migrant rescue vessels remained stuck in port in Malta and unable render their life-saving operations after the Maltese government forbade them...

We knew that they looked ugly on the outside, but this week we found out that they look equally ugly on the inside.  We are speaking, of course, about the hideous kiosks installed at City Gate...

The news from Germany is that the coalition led by Angela Merkel is teetering on the brink of collapse as key German minister Horst Seehofer, head of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union, is...

Slowly, the international regulation as regards boat people is being drawn up and clarified by international organisations and countries. Prime Minister Muscat yesterday announced that all...

Sweetheart deals are nothing new when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment into a country, and Malta has in the past entered into several arrangements with the private sector, which...

Migration was never far from the national agenda although, it must be said, it had been quite a while since Malta experienced two weeks of news dominated by the issue – first with the Aquarius...

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...