Increasing the labour force participation and raising the rate of female employment is of paramount importance for the EU as a whole to meet its 2020 headline target – that of having 75% of the...

Figures may be used to give different impressions. Numbers may also be misleading and worse still used to shift attention from more serious national issues of which unfortunately, presently, we have...

So one minister has declared half a million euros in cash kept at home (he trips up in noughts and thinks a billion is a hundred million, so he may have meant 50,000) and another minister declares a...

A government – in this case Labour – that listens to what people are saying and goes back to the negotiating table over an issue on which there is public outcry is not a weak government....

I watched John Dalli on Dissett and like many, I could not help but reflect on the irony of it all.   Here was the man who had been minister for health, now consultant to this new...

No, we won’t be having our own version of Simon Cowell’s popular series. Not that we don’t have that kind of talent. Indeed, we have. I am talking about the “talent”...

The idea of justice is often associated with the image of the ancient goddess Justicia, who is depicted as a blindfolded woman carrying a sword and holding a pair of scales. We also use expressions...

The speech by European Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht at the 2013 Strategic Export Control Conference held in Brussels in June, entitled Unity in Diversity: finding the right balance between...

Work, Seriousness, Identity. Together, these three words clearly represent the Nationalist Party. The party, which in the course of its history generated work and established a benchmark of...

The universal Church has made it known that it is calling a special synod for the family next year. This in itself is a very good move as I believe that much needs to be done with respect to a...