What had started out with no insignificant amount of hype and hyperbole ends with something of a fizzle today as Malta’s term of office in which it held the Presidency of the European Union...

Outgoing Nationalist Party leader Simon Busuttil has acknowledged that “not everyone in the PN agrees with the decision to vote in favour of the gay marriage bill and the issue is a sensitive...

Now that the Maltese Presidency of the Council of the European Union is (almost) over, our attention turns to 2018 when for a whole year Valletta will be the European Capital of Culture. Our...

Archbishop Charles Scicluna is a leader in society who deserves respect and recognition for the bold and courageous stands he took so far. He has stood up to be counted on several issues, from hunting...

Consider the tremendous catastrophe that occurred in Pakistan early yesterday. A speeding fuel carrier overturned and burst. People came from near and from afar with all kinds of receptacles to carry...

The government, through the President’s traditional ‘speech from the throne’ at yesterday’s opening of the new legislature, pledged that it will begin the process leading to...

Hungary built a wall. Europe signed a deal with Turkey. And Malta allegedly has a secret deal with Italy. All these measures have stemmed the flow of migrants crossing Europe's borders but...

The Labour Party was not completely wrong when it labelled the Forza Nazzjonali PN-PD coalition as the ‘coalition of confusion’. Forza Nazzjonali had a noble aim: that of bringing...

The French political class and four ministers in particular this week showed what political accountability is all about. France’s justice minister, defence minister, European affairs...

We have no less than five national days, each commemorating significant dates in the history of our people. However, there are other dates, also significant, which normally go unnoticed and...