New threats call for new tools. Today, the European Commission is calling on all EU countries to strengthen their efforts against violent extremism and terrorism. Programmes helping people to leave...

The judgement given by Mr Justice R.J. Micallef has finally established as a fact that in taking over the National Bank of Malta and passing over its business assets and liabilities to the now Bank of...

One year ago, in January 2013, Angela Merkel praised Malta’s “excellent” economic performance. Just three months earlier, at the 5+5 summit, European Commission President Jose...

I have always been fascinated by the depth of wisdom of certain people and the way they impart it in words to be treasured for posterity. So, in honour of one such man who has left the world a better...

Following the European Parliament debate on the question of citizenship – with a bizarre insistence on the reference to Malta’s Individual Investor Programme (IIP) – one could only...

I am not referring to the excellent film depicting the merciless 1970s rivalry between Formula One rivals James Hunt and Niki Lauda. The “rush” I have in mind is the perennial state this...

The government’s current set of problems all stem from its apparent inability to understand a basic principle of law, which is quite surprising given that one of its main men on the passports...

Or maybe it is a 10-year itch.   What we are passing through now, from the general election last March to this citizenship for sale issue convince me that, 10 years after joining the EU, it...

The sombre environment in the Public Accounts Committee sessions involving George Farrugia, enjoying a conditional State pardon to tell the truth about the hideous multi-million goings-on at Enemalta...

The Labour Party’s crusade against European Union membership for Malta was mostly based on its claim that Malta would lose its identity if it joined.   Leader at the time Alfred Sant...