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...

With the nomination of Tonio Borg as Malta’s European commissioner now out of the way, the government and the Nationalist Party can concentrate on two other important issues in the coming...

It is positive to hear that next week’s budget, according to Finance Minister Tonio Fenech speaking in an interview with this newspaper, will not be used as an economic and not an electoral...

Over the last months, betting parlours, or whatever they choose to call themselves, have been sprouting all over our towns and villages. There is now probably no town or village without at least...

It was meant to be the cherry on the cake, the best evidence that the government was right to pay off the previous owners and to do away with the previous bus system.   Instead, so many have...

We now know how the vote in the European Parliament went but up to noon yesterday not many were to be found to bet that Tonio Borg’s passage through the European Parliament would be as smooth as...