The government is set to perform its yearly balancing act tomorrow evening, and this year the budgetary tightrope is perhaps thinner and longer than ever. ...

Bad news always grabs more attention than good news. That is part of life.But it is wrong that positive achievements are sometimes overlooked, ...

What’s all this malarkey? The decision to force a ban on the display of crucifixes in Italian state schools by the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights has raised a right furore throughout Europe and even further afield....

Vaclav Klaus, the Czech President, finally signed the document to accept the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty which was put to him by the Czech Senate... and about time too....

The lightning quick visit by Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi to meet his Spanish counterpart Luis Rodriguez Zapatero seems to have been quite fruitful in the sphere of migration patterns....

This newspaper published a feature dealing with the subject of losing a child, be it due to a stillbirth or shortly after delivery....

The Malta Independent on Sunday yesterday published a story on its front page, quoting social partners as being ‘up in arms’ at the government’s last minute decision to hike utility bill tariffs up to the levels of last October....

One of the axioms of Maltese political life is that it is all too easy to claim corruption....

After having seen summits fail and negotiations break down in the past, Europe, and in particular EU and EC leaders breathed a heavy sigh of relief yesterday after a deal was brokered in Brussels to appease the Czech Republic....

The Justice and Home Affairs Minister recently answered a parliamentary question saying that no people under the age of 16 were caught consuming alcohol between January and September....