Even if you do not agree, you have to express some sympathy for those who complain that it was not right for European government to bailout banks. Why should they keep the profits for themselves and...

The Parliamentary Secretariat I lead organised a successful seminar on Assistive Technologies for Independent Living last Friday. From humble beginnings in the late 1940s, when a few sheltered housing...

This how the Anglican Bishops' pastoral letter on the 2015 General Election in Britain describes modern politics in Britain, and one may extrapolate this to all European politics. This ethical...

Qala. I hail from Victoria. My wife is from Xewkija. But together with our two children we live in Qala, a small village with a population of 22,000. It is the farthest village from Victoria, but the...

On a European level, according to the influential scientific journal The Lancet, in 2009 it reported that the incidence of stroke in Europe is 1-2% in European males and 0.6-1.5% in European females....

Despite having defamatory and false allegations directed at me over the past few days by an ill-intentioned individual, my work as Parliamentary Secretary for the Rights of Persons with...

This was yet another eventful week. In Hollywood, the Oscars were given for the best films of 2014, and in Malta we had the National Audit Office (NAO) publishing a damning report on the Café...

The Ministry for Gozo recognises and fosters the public character of urban spaces and their capacity for fostering social cohesion. Its policy is to highlight the relational and civic aspects of the...

We all believe that an advanced society holds dear the ideals of freedom and democracy. Somehow, they are the natural condition of “our advanced society”. The truth is, however, that the...

At the moment, the words of the late Dom Mintoff at the 1975 Helsinki peace agreement talks between Europe, the US, Canada and the USSR that there can't be peace and stability in the world without...