The very next day after the Pope visited Lampedusa, the Maltese government threatened to send Air Malta planes to take back to Tripoli 102 Somali and Eritrean migrants who had arrived in Malta the...

“I’m not a racist… but…” has to be one of the most used phrases in Malta and Italy. Everywhere one turns, the conversation turns to boat people and asylum seekers....

The Government of Malta has been heard, loud and clear. So much so, that the issue of immigration was the main point of discussion during European Union Council President Hermann Van Rompuy yesterday....

While any kind of judgement, preliminary or otherwise, on the international call for expressions of interest in land reclamation projects issued by the government on Tuesday should, due to the virtual...

All’s well that ends well.   Or rather, all’s not well not even when it ends well.   The thinking and reflecting part of Malta will long remember the anguish it was...

Pope Francis yesterday visited Lampedusa to pay tribute to those who had died in trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to seek a better life. He cast a wreath into the sea in memory of...

The International Monetary Fund pressed Italy to do more about "unacceptably high" unemployment, especially among young people and women, and urged it to bring back an unpopular property tax...

Frankly speaking, this newspaper and large swathes of the country had expected far better from our progressive and European Prime Minister when he reacted to the 290 migrants who were rescued by the...

The rhetoric has gone up a notch, with Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s saying that he will consider using Malta’s veto in EU negotiations in an effort to draw attention to Malta’s...

Any article that is written about immigration needs to set out from one crucial standpoint – saving human lives comes first. The government yesterday reacted to the rescue of some 300 immigrants...