With the Malta Book Festival next week, Marie Benoît looks at the endless fascination of the printed word Montaigne, the French thinker and a bestseller for at least 400 years, confessed to...

Google Earth reveals that swimming pools are not so popular with people from the south of Malta in places like Hamrun, Qormi and Bormla. However, they are extremely popular with people from places...

Carmel Vassallo November is the last full month of autumn, a precursor of the cold winter months and Christmas festivities. Somehow for me, it brings with it some very lucid recollections of...

The year 2017 will be a very important one for the EPP Group, the EP Party and the Nationalist Party as Malta will be hosting the European Peoples' Party congress during that year. This is an...

"I did not have sexual relations with that woman" Of course, President Clinton lied when he denied having sex with Monica Lewinsky. To some, the lie was "excusable because he should never have...

The months I have been in office have been eventful in terms of the extensive active ageing and disability agenda. At the Secretariat, we have worked hard to bring together all the different elements...

November marks the beginning of the five-year term of the new European Commission headed by Jean Claude Juncker, former Luxembourg Prime Minister. For quite some time, he also headed the eurogroup,...

At the same time that the Prime Minister had to admit that he was not in a position to keep his biggest pre-election promise -couldn't build the power station within two years (surprise surprise) -,...

Maltese governments have made some very courageous political moves since (and including) Independence. By that I mean those decisions may have carried considerable political cost in the short-term...

The fact that the social welfare system is susceptible to abuse is well-known. Over the years, this system has been exploited by many who have attempted to live off its benefits. Alas, until the new...