New warnings from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change this week should serve as a very loud wake-up call for the world’s policy makers, and for policy makers in each and every...

A great step forward was taken this week in parliament as government MP Chris Fearn, a paediatric surgeon filed a private members bill, calling for the horrific and barbarous practice of Female...

Since the new government took office last March, the country’s administration has made dubious appointments and fielded numerous accusations of nepotism and cronyism.     But the...

The more the Public Accounts Committee continues to meet, the more the reputation of the National Audit Office is emerging in tatters.   PAC will convene today week in the evening. Any hopes...

Angela Merkel won an overwhelming endorsement from German voters, putting the country’s first female chancellor on course for the biggest election tally since Helmut Kohl’s...

For Syria's divided and beleaguered rebels, the creeping realisation that there will not be a decisive Western military intervention on their behalf is a huge psychological...

Everything in Europe has been put on hold pending today’s general election in Germany but all commentators agree there is unlikely to be any radical change in policy after today.   The...

First Arriva on its first day of operations. Now Air Malta.   What do you call it when 17 pilots claim sick on the same day? As did one half of the Arriva drivers on the first...

It should go without saying that this weekend’s German elections mean an awful lot not only to Germany, but also to Malta and to Europe as whole.   German companies, particularly...

At long last, the debate within the Public Accounts Committee has entered a crucial phase. David Spiteri Gingell’s scintillating expose on Monday swept aside many a hypothesis that owed more to...