After months of negotiations, on Tuesday November 19, the European Parliament approved the Multi-annual Financial Framework for 2014-2020. The overall budget for the next seven years is €960...

Following the agreement in the European Union Council on 18 November, 2013 and the favourable vote by the European Parliament on 20 November, 2013 on the new regulations regarding the Cohesion Policy,...

There can’t be many people of my generation, unless they take a particular delight in being oblivious, who don’t know what Thalidomide is, or more pertinently, what it did to 10,000 of our...

Let us face it, the 36,000 majority by which the PL won the March general election does not reflect the Maltese political spectrum. Neither did the 2009 European Parliament election, which was won by...

The ferocious resistance orchestrated by the Nationalist Party and their European conservative allies to the Individual Investor Programme (IIP) has confirmed at least one thing: the Nationalists...

Fond of reading memoirs, mostly of those who have worked indefatigably against all odds, George Szell - A Life of Music is the latest addition to my collection of biographies. This will soon be...

A few weeks ago, the Minister of Homeland Security told this newspaper – which reported the fact – that it is his intention to make it a crime to mock Malta’s sale-of-citizenship...

It is always said that the health sector should not be a political football and that instead there should be a concerted effort by all the parties concerned to bring it as close to perfection as...

The majority of commentators seem to agree that the worst of the crisis is over. So do, predictably, the spokespersons in Brussels and before and after every European Council meeting.   But...

At times I find myself asking whether we have really started to appreciate the true value of EU membership. Most of the people I meet repeatedly mention funds and the ‘free’ trips to...