The European Council is set to reopen the Excessive Deficit Procedure against Malta, less than six months after the procedure was last withdrawn, following recommendations made by the European...

The stance adopted by Malta along with its EU peers this week on dropping the Syrian opposition arms embargo, effectively opening the way for individual EU states to help arm the Syrian rebels, was...

In the European Drug Report 2013, it was observed that cocaine is fast becoming cheaper and more easily obtainable throughout Europe and Malta is no exception.   In reference to Malta, the...

Maybe the reverberations here in Malta of last week’s murderous butchery of a British soldier right in front of his own barracks by a Kenyan man who went on to justify, as he saw it, what he had...

It is often said that Malta suffers as a result of insularity – in terms of being an island nation in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea.   But over the years, under different...

        The Nationalist Party has opened a new chapter in its history.   After its election defeat in March, which was by far the biggest ever, it has embarked...

With the sad honoraria having raised its ugly head once again this week, there are a number of points that need to be raised again about the contentious ‘raise’ that the former Nationalist...

Two men with butcher knives, a machete and a meat cleaver attacked and killed a soldier near military barracks in the south London neighbourhood of Woolwich on Wednesday. The attack seemed to...

Wednesday's summit which focused on energy and fiscal evasion will not go down in history as one of the most notable EU meetings of recent years. As a matter of fact its conclusions barely...

Malta has borne witness to something of a revolution over the last decade insofar as the cleanliness of its swimming water is concerned.  Malta’s beaches and swimming water have, once...