Allow me to reflect on some simple, common sense calculations regarding the future prospects of the Nationalist Party. The Nationalist Party can beat Labour – if only it can swing enough voters...

I believe in Malta and am proud of our country. Albeit the smallest member state of the European Union, we can be the Union’s leaders on a number of issues that directly impact us. In all...

This last week, the lines have been drawn on several political and economic battlegrounds.   In Italy, the ousting of Berlusconi from the Senate, and the splitting of his party into...

Budget 2014 is definitely behind us now. The media event, that is. The meticulous and less glamorous exercise of sound fiscal planning barely made it on stage before it was quickly ushered out to make...

What do Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen restaurants, the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, the Social Innovation Park in Bilbao and Jaipur Rugs in India have in common? They all started life as a social...

There really is no other word for it: shocking. Former Nationalist Minister and EU Commissioner John Dalli’s report on the state of things at Mater Dei Hospital since its very inception has...

Throughout the years Malta earned the title of ‘Nurse of the Mediterranean’ by acting as a recovery centre during the wars and more recently during the Libyan conflict. This remarkable...

John Dalli is hogging the media again, like a bad dream. It makes you wonder what sort of place you are living in, when somebody like that not only survives one storm and accusation after another, but...

In early July, the Commercial Court of Podgorica launched the bankruptcy proceedings for Montenegro's aluminum giant Krombinat Aluminijuma Podgorica (KAP).  This massive aluminum plant was...

The breakthrough agreement reached last week-end in Geneva by the Permanent Members of the UN Security Council plus Germany (P5 +1) and Iran, marks a significant first step towards ensuring that no...