The reasons for Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation on 28 February were cited as being that he is simply to infirm to carry on – making him the first head of the Roman Catholic Church to do so...

Last week’s summit could very well have been the last one which Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi attended. And if it is, what a way to go out. As a result of his dogged persistence over the past...

The government may not have had the budget miracle it had been hoping for when its own Budget 2013 failed to be approved by Parliament, but in lieu of that it pulled off another kind of budgetary...

Trade unions are part and parcel of democratic society. Over the eyars they have done a lot for the worker, the ordinary Joe, who was transformed in decades past as hard won rights were implemented...

We all know what Simon Busuttil meant to say. He meant to say that the Labour Party took on Deborah Schembri as a candidate because she had middle class voter appeal and could also sway those who are...

British Prime Minister David Cameron is prepared to leave EU budget negotiations without a deal today and tomorrow, if other EU leaders do not accept a freeze or more cuts to the bloc's budget for...

    On the face of it, all Malta is still going round its normal duties and business but there’s a huge distraction underneath: The election.   Outsiders confess they...

For the first time in this electoral campaign (of which there are five long weeks yet to go), the Labour Party seems to be on the back foot.   In the first four weeks of this marathon...

By Wednesday we would have reached the halfway stage of the election campaign, and no doubt both major parties will be upping their presence in the streets and in the media to try to lure the last...

With the Labour Party now on the cusp of publishing its full electoral programme, it can be safely assumed that the real battle of the policies between the Nationalist and Labour parties’...