This coming May is the third time that Malta will elect its representatives to the European Parliament. By then, our nation will have had its representatives in the EU institution for a decade. The...

The first wave of our democratic development was the decades-long struggle to gain full sovereign rights as a people by establishing a Constitution, a Parliament, freedom of speech and expression and...

I am probably going to upset some ‘friends’ today. I don’t mean my real life friends, but the virtual ones. It’s probably my mature years, but I just cannot stand that silly...

Silvio Berlusconi performed the mother of all u-turns this week. He grossly over-estimated his hold on Italian politics and took too much for granted regarding where the loyalty of his troops lies....

Protecting the environment is no easy task. We have, over the past few years, been inundated with information that is often too overwhelmingly scientific in terms that make it difficult for us to...

This week, a colleague of mine picked up a discussion about freedom and the way that we others tended to base our concepts of freedom on the predetermination based on the hope in God, or providence as...

In Opposition, Labour drummed the good governance concept and made much political mileage out of the story of the honoraria paid to Ministers. Of course, this measure had to be seen in relation to the...

For only the second time in its history, the UN General Assembly convened this week to focus on international migration. It does so at a critical moment. New UN data show that the number of...

The latest EU scoreboard on competitiveness is unfortunately very discouraging as far as innovation is concerned. Despite all the lip service paid to innovation, Malta languishes at the sixth position...

The Archbishop may not have expected to be taken literally when on Independence Day he called for the setting up of ministry or a parliamentary secretary responsible for protecting the country’s...