Increasingly, Opposition leader Simon Busuttil is finding it hard to cobble together a coalition to tackle Joseph Muscat’s Labour in the coming general election. Dr Busuttil seems to have...

This week’s visit to Malta by the European Commission was a wonderfully orchestrated affair. The dignitaries’ speeches and platitudes were all conducted with barely a hitch or hiccup, the...

If 2016 was the year the world, as we know it, turned on its head, nothing indicates that 2017 will be any different.  Even tiny Malta, now entrusted with the leadership of the largest...

It is not just that what up till yesterday were certainties have now become doubts. Maybe without our realizing what is happening, the world we were brought up in has changed, is changing, and we...

Parliament has, at long last, begun debating the traffic reform measures, which, most importantly, include a reduction in the legal limit for drunk driving, that were first unveiled last...

There have been some recent media reports which complained about the delays by the wider government service (that is, including the various agencies, etc) in giving back to the citizens what is due to...

This paper, together with the entire country, welcomes the European Commission and its President in the visit that marks the beginning of Malta’s Presidency of the Council. It is a cold...

It just does not bode well for the start of Malta’s presidency of the European Council. While Malta should be united and proud at this historical moment, what we are seeing is a mounting...

It was good to hear Parliamentary Secretary for Lands Deborah Schembri speak about the closure and removal of kiosks just outside City Gate. Over the years, the haphazard look that these kiosks...

Malta’s fledgling EU presidency certainly has a lot to offer, particularly in terms of placing Malta more squarely on the European map than it has ever been before.   Not only will the...