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...

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...