The global media coverage of the government’s decision to sell Maltese citizenship for €650,000 (and a heavily discounted price of €25,000 for dependents) has been relentlessly mocking...

The government has made a step backwards by announcing that it will remove the secrecy clause in the Citizenship Act that was approved in Parliament last Tuesday.   But this is not...

Readers surely remember the famous Mastercard ad, which begins with a series of priceless worthwhile experiences, then adds, ‘for all the rest there’s Mastercard’.   Over...

The Labour Party’s resounding victory with a majority of 36,000 votes in the last election weighs heavily on the same government’s responsibility to administer and change according to its...

I have nothing in principle against the citizenship scheme. I have reservations about some of the details, which I hope the government will fine-tune in an effort to gain better acceptance by the...

Prior to B-Day, a source from the Finance Ministry told the press that this would be an “election budget”. The description is not new, but for it to come from a government source certainly...

Very much like the legendary Scarlet Pimpernel, in his reaction to the excellent Labour Budget for 2014 Opposition Leader Simon Busuttil kept trying to play hide and seek with his bemused listeners on...

Bit by bit, we are losing our national virtue. It is incumbent on the government to always keep the moral high ground if it wants to really maintain its authority. There is a natural rhythm to...

Last Friday, 8 November, Ukraine halted its imports of Russian gas after yet another dispute regarding gas prices erupted between the two nations.  Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov...

Until recently, few people had heard of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague. Two recent events brought this highly credited disarmament organisation under the...