When the Public Domain Bill was being debated in Parliament in 2016, it was described as a landmark and groundbreaking law that would empower citizens in a process that would add another layer of...

In the run-up to the general election, Joseph Muscat launched the second wave of his IIP, the Individual Investment Programme, or as we all know it to be: the sale of Maltese citizenship with an easy...

Identity Malta this week went to the police and requested an investigation after it emerged that an employee had misappropriated some €25,000 at the passports unit.  According to a...

Unlike other newspapers, The Malta Independent will not favour any candidate for the post of Deputy Prime Minister/Deputy Leader of the Labour Party or anyone of those contesting the leadership of the...

At the end of the very first six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, held by Malta, it is time to draw up a balance. There is no doubt that the government and the entire...

It was rich of the Prime Minister to call on EU member states to show solidarity on the migration issue at a time when Malta is being accused of shirking its responsibility and failing to take...

From Paris to Bucharest, from Madrid to Moscow, an often well-founded perception of corruption in high places is leading European citizens to shake up the political life of their country. Since...

Many interesting news stories appeared in the local media over the weekend, but surely one of the most entertaining, yet saddening news pieces was an online report about the latest...

Following the commotion in the lead up to and during the election campaign over a number of reports drawn up by the Financial Intelligence Analysis Unit raised by the opposition and sections of the...

After years and years of constantly cutting and reducing itself, better times seem to be coming for the national airline, judging at least from what Minister Konrad Mizzi said in a parliamentary...