There are many who dismiss the Council of Europe as a talking shop, since it has no executive powers at the level of its parliamentary assembly....

For any strategy to succeed, it is important that there is a strong awareness of its vision, priorities and the goals being pursued not just by those who implement the strategy, but indeed, with the wider community of stakeholders being affected. ...

I love the way any possible change to our capital city causes an absolute furore. ...

A debate is taking place in another section of the press about the desirability or otherwise of having the George Cross removed from our flag. The deluge of correspondence about this subject surprises me....

Ever get the feeling that, for all your country’s claims to be steadily progressing in all departments, it’s actually sliding relentlessly back towards a new Dark Age? ...

After another year of hard slog, sweat and tears, the Maltese Matsec results are out. Sadly, although the students and their teachers have worked just as hard, if not harder than ever, although parents have agonised, spent years overseeing ...

Writing in another section of the press, Din l-Art Helwa stalwart Martin Scicluna declared that “the vote taken in Parliament on 26 July 6 (extending Malta’s construction development zone) ...

The member states’ meeting at the Strasbourg European Council in December 1989 decided to convene an Intergovernmental Conference (IGC) which culminated in the new Treaty on European Union, signed at Maastricht in 1992. The treaty set out a number of ...

Long ago and far away, the ruling Nationalist Party was led by a breed of well-meaning idealists. ...

A lot has been said in the printed media regarding the Voice of the Mediterranean radio station, and surely the matter has attracted some attention....