MEP Simon Busuttil has one thing in abundance – affability. The man is friendly, always has a smile on his face and is always in touch with people. He feels the pulse of what is going on and is...

It is nothing short of incredible that the Labour Party has stated that, if push comes to shove in an electoral sense, it will retain Budget 2013 as announced on Wednesday. But at the same time, it is...

After decades of being prisoner in their own land, having been evicted from their homes and suffering oppression and killings at the hands of Israel, Palestine has been officially recognized as a...

The verdict on Budget 2013 is now out. While some including this newspaper have described it as ‘an election budget’ the opposition was rather critical describing it as an exercise lacking...

The Budget Speech read out by Minister Tonio Fenech in Parliament last night would have been considered, objectively, as a good Budget … were it not for the surreal atmosphere surrounding it,...

If Budget 2012 was an exercise in staving off the brunt of the recessionary economic downturn spreading across Europe this time last year, Budget 2013 is an apparent continuation of that...

It is quite clear that the budget presented by the government is an election budget, but not in what we have begun to accept in the literal sense.   The Finance Minister announced a number...

One of the quirks of this small country is that every so often someone comes out to try and upstage, review, revert or anyway change what has been accepted wisdom for generations.   The...

Last year’s budget edition front page headline was ‘Shock absorber’. It raised eyebrows in some quarters, but in hindsight, it proved to be correct.   2012 was a very...

There was a time when European Union summit meetings were held all across the bloc. The meetings used to shift all around the continent with meetings being held in Copenhagen, Athens, Nice, Rome and...