The government is quite right in deciding to tackle the most urgent and non-postponable issues right at the beginning of a new legislature. ...

With schooldays over, the summer season, closely associated with village feasts, enters into full swing....

The Nationalist Party wanted Simon Busuttil to replace Joe Saliba as its secretary general. But it just could not persuade him to leave his lucrative post as a Member of the European Parliament to move from Brussels to Pieta....

It seems that the government wants to stagger the blows it will be giving to the people....

The “consensus” reached in Parliament on Monday with regard to the privatisation of the Malta Shipyards is only the first step in a process that had to take place, sooner or later....

Minutes after being elected to become Malta Labour Party leader, Joseph Muscat said he wanted a “new political season” to begin. If the press conference he gave last week on the first 100 days of the government is anything to go by, ...

Social Policy Minister John Dalli last week announced that a White Paper on rent reform will be published by the end of this month....

This past week the country has been shocked to the core to see with its own eyes the fragility on which its government stands: the fragility of one single MP who is hugely in denial – Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando....

All across of Europe, more measures are being taken to make it even more difficult for smokers. Britain is, for example, considering a ban on cigarette vending machines, removing cigarettes from display in shops and outlawing the sale of packets of 10. ...

In many of the interviews he has given and in many of his speeches he has delivered since taking over as Malta Labour Party leader, Joseph Muscat has adopted a cautious approach....