The government would be very ill-advised indeed if it is planning to play any more aces it may still have up its sleeve with respect to the Individual Investor Programme (IIP).   Malta...

The few people who went online earlier this week to see the meeting of Parliament’s Privileges Committee could have been forgiven for thinking this was a scene straight from North Korea, or...

On Wednesday evening, the government of Malta and the European Commission announced that a deal had been struck on the much maligned citizenship scheme.   At a press conference at Castille,...

Almost half the people under the age of 34 in Malta still live with their parents. It is the fourth highest rate in Europe, coming in just behind Slovakia, Bulgaria and Greece. It might also come as...

Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday tried to defuse his country’s crisis with two moves – repealing the deeply unpopular anti-protest laws and accepting the resignation...

Foreign Minister George Vella yesterday said that while the government will collaborate and respect the Church, the agreement signed yesterday to amend the agreement on marriages showed a clear sign...

Labour MP Justyne Caruana has been quoted as saying that taking the helicopter trip from Gozo to rush to the airport was not exactly a nice experience and that the aircraft she flew in was a piece of...

The sheer amount of controversy stirred up by the government’s controversial citizenship programme has, undoubtedly to the Opposition’s delight, distracted the public from some of the...

Gozo has always suffered from what can be called “double insularity”. Malta’s sister island is connected to the mainland by a ferry link – a 20 minute boat ride. There is also...

There is an angle that has been generally overlooked in the current national controversy regarding the Individual Investor Programme: whose fingerprint is on the bill?   The aim of this...