The Malta Independent 4 November 2026, Wednesday
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A new digital era for Malta’s healthcare

Sunday, 7 December 2025, 07:04 Last update: about 12 months ago

The launch of the Digital Health and Health Data Strategy 2030 marks an important milestone in Malta's national journey toward a more efficient, connected, and patient-centred health ecosystem....

A decade of change: Labour’s regeneration drive in Cottonera

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 12:54 Last update: about 12 months ago

Once regarded as a fading remnant of Malta's industrial past, the Cottonera region - the historic Three Cities of Vittoriosa, Senglea, and Cospicua has experienced nothing short of a renaissance over...

A long-term decline in discipline

Thursday, 4 December 2025, 12:53 Last update: about 12 months ago

As a serious incident in one of our schools unfolded earlier this week, parents, educators and students have turned to social media and media outlets to express their fears over this distressing...

Brussels rings the bell

Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 08:12 Last update: about 12 months ago

Europe reactivates its fiscal guardrails after years of pandemic-related leniency, and Malta struggles to adjust to the return of discipline. The Stability and Growth Pact sets two basic rules: keep...

Building Malta’s tomorrow

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:56 Last update: about 12 months ago

We speak often about the future, but the future isn't something that arrives on its own. It is built -- step by step, decision by decision, project by project. And today, across our islands, that...

One-0-Six

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:53 Last update: about 12 months ago

For the second consecutive year, the MUT teamed up with the Floriana Local Council to celebrate the Union's 106th anniversary. The activity, held on the eve of the anniversary, started with mass at...

We cannot keep calling Malta’s housing crisis a trend

Sunday, 30 November 2025, 07:52 Last update: about 12 months ago

Every so often, a moment comes along that perfectly captures the widening disconnect between the realities faced by ordinary people and the political rhetoric meant to reassure them. This week's...

Driving productivity for a competitive Malta

Friday, 28 November 2025, 11:06 Last update: about 12 months ago

As Malta prepares to identify the course it wants to take in the years and decades ahead, it is worth stepping back from the political noise and assessing where the country truly stands. The past...

A new phase for Malta’s EU funding strategy

Sunday, 23 November 2025, 08:02 Last update: about 13 months ago

Addressing Parliament for the first time as Shadow Minister for EU Funds during the Budget 2026 Estimates debate was a moment of genuine significance for me. This is not a portfolio that can be...

Where no flowers grow: Friggieri’s Malta, five years later

Friday, 21 November 2025, 14:18 Last update: about 13 months ago

Five years after his passing, Oliver Friggieri remains one of the few Maltese figures whose absence still feels like a national pause. He was more than a writer and more than a professor; he was...

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