PIGS. What a marvelous, if slightly unflattering acronym for those concerned. PIGS is the acronym that analysts and commentators have coined to refer to the deficit crisis which has hit Portugal, Greece, Ireland and Spain....

The Prime Minister’s Cabinet reshuffle this week put ministerial portfolios neatly into their respective nutshells. ...

A recent Broadcasting Authority survey found that a mere 0.1 per cent of the population, amounting to just roughly 410 people, tune in to the parliamentary debates broadcast on state radi...

The reform in the education sector has gone another step further with the announcement that the existing four schools for students with special needs will be ...

Every now and then, the country goes through a wave of discussion on divorce, and whether this should be introduced to give couples whose marriage ha...

When John Dalli was nominated as Malta’s European Commissioner, the next question that everyone was asking was who would replace him in the Cabinet....

Europe, its parliament, its ancillaries and its institutions are known to be a bureaucratic nightmare, and the appointment of President Jose Manuel Barroso’s Commission, which happened yesterday, was no exception....

President George Abela has taken it upon himself to reveal to the general public, the extent of poverty in Malta....

On Saturday, the leading article tackled the issue of the spreading of fear in relation to the economies of Portugal, Spain and Ireland being dragged into the mire ensuing from the Greek budget deficit....

Much has been said about Malta’s role, however significant or otherwise that might have been, in the European Union’s final pledge to the United Nations...