Every time the football season starts the subject of football rights and exclusive content crops up in many countries across the globe. The latest issue related to football rights came up this summer...

On 28 August the European Commission presented its proposal for the first ever Council Recommendation on health enhanced physical activity. The aim of this proposal is to improve the health of...

On 1 January, 2014 Greece takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union  for the first six months of the new year.  In four months time Greece will assume the responsibility...

Trouble in Syria has been raging for a while now, but six days after the chemical attack which killed 355 civilians there (the figures come from Doctors Without Borders), the Maltese government has...

Summer is coming to an end and by now many have enjoyed their yearly holiday in one of the traditional destinations enjoyed by many Maltese, though it is also becoming fashionable for a bigger share...

Previous Nationalist governments have been criticised for many things, fairly and unfairly. But over a quarter of a century, very little of that criticism has been directed at its handling of the...

You might think that what is happening in Germany is strange. It is not.   Since the 2008 financial crisis, electorates in countries far and wide, given a chance to vote, have blamed...

As the vacation month of August draws to a close, so does the lean period, or rather semi-shut down, of the European Institutions. During August activity at the European Institutions grinds to a halt...

One of the greatest mysteries of life is the fuss that surrounds religious feasts in Malta and Gozo. It is something that I have always failed to grasp, and the older I grow the more this lack of...

There are times when I want to ring a couple of friends who happen to be Muslim, just to ask them how they feel about the way the word is used as a catch-all for the disparagement of unwanted groups...