According to British politician Lord Acton “Power corrupts; but absolute power corrupts absolutely”. This theory discourages honest people from taking positions where they can leave a...

By European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Commissioner Karmenu Vella European integration was always a project created by the people, for the people. It was a movement carried by a...

Women parliamentarians can legislate and push for change, ensuring that if things are happening the way they should not happen, this will no longer happen. This was my message when concluding the...

Our electoral system has served us pretty well - bar the 1981 perverse result - and with gerrymandering now rendered ineffective thanks to the corrective mechanism, there is little reason not to have...

To many people on the outside, the two political parties may look rather the same. A close examination and dissection of their streams of thought and the different fruit they produce when in...

Notwithstanding some shortcomings which the Nationalist administration might have had and although, from within, there were those who were pulling the carpet from under the feet of the administration,...

In February 2006, the Government of Malta announced the start of framework discussions with Tecom Investments of Dubai to invest $300 million to build a dream 'SmartCity' in Ricasoli. This was the...

This week an old lady remarked to me that working for the elderly seems to be a never-ending story. I replied that there are people who are normally comfortable with what they have achieved and rest...

Harold Wilson once said that a week is a long time in politics – which makes two weeks a very long time. The last time my column appeared on these pages I was complaining about the gradual...

When slavery was still legal in the United States, a slave was considered three-fifths of a person for purposes of calculating the population of the different States and the number of representatives...