For all the procrastination and stamping of feet that often goes on in parliament, the work of committees should never be overlooked....

Just a few weeks after the UK announced it had entered recession again, the news has emerged that Spain – the fourth largest economy in the eurozone – has also sank back into the mire. Statistics have show...

All around the world, people are protesting and rising up in anger against democratic governments, but it all really does need to be put into context. In the US and the UK, the Occupy Wall Street and ...

Pirates are capturing Germany’s political system.The party with the outlaw name started as a marginal club of computer nerds and hack...

The civil service collective agreement expired 16 months ago, and here we are still talking about its renewal.The interested parties – the ...

As matters stand, Parliament appears set for one wild ride over the coming two weeks, two weeks that could very well determine, by 9 May, whether the current government will last until the end of the legislature ...

It won’t be an all-Spanish Champions League final after all.Barcelona and Real Madrid were outright favourites to make it to the Munich final on 19 May, but football is beautiful because it c...

In the space of just over a week, there have been two cases where the judiciary were forced into clearing people accus...

On 26 April, 1986 the world changed forever. The nuclear power plant at Chernobyl in Ukraine blew up, sending a huge radioactive particle crowd up into the atmosphere which covered most of Europe. ...

An EU survey on the social impact of the ongoing economic and financial crisis provides some interesting statistics, as far as Malta is concerned....