During last week’s Parliamentary debate on the financial estimates of the Office of the Prime Minister for 2013, the Prime Minister was quoted as saying: “People have realised that we are...

It is true that the 2014 Budget, Labour’s first after a lapse of 15 years, came as a shock to an Opposition that is seemingly still under sedation from the general election result, but recent...

On 6 November, the European Commission proposed legislation that would facilitate an EU ratification of the second commitment period (2013-2020) of the Kyoto Protocol, reinforcing the European...

Maltese citizenship, just like citizenship of any other EU Member States, automatically confers upon the holder citizenship of the European Union.   Article 9 of the Treaty on European Union...

This year’s reply to the Budget speech by the Leader of the Opposition during the Parliamentary sitting of Monday November 11 was, to put it mildly, very poor for different reasons.  His...

One of the most exhausting aspects of this sale of citizenship saga is the confusion, much of it deliberately engendered, about the facts. The government has every interest in people failing to...

Prior to the General Election, Labour often boasted that, amongst its more notable credentials, one could find a clear roadmap for the way ahead. This was probably Labour’s loudest...

The intense and constructive discussions that took place in Geneva on 7 – 10 November 2013, between the so called E3/EU + 3 or the P5 + 1 (meaning the EU represented by its High Representative,...

The distressing news coming from the Philippines are making us ever more aware of the need for appropriate governance in order to protect citizens against man-made and natural disasters. Only time...

It is a given. Most of the small or large projects and business ventures originate from a hunch but the term “cost-benefit analysis” is the process by which new business premonitions are...