Unfortunately, many of our feasts today have degenerated into a debauchery of external festivities that are anything but sacred. Swearing, drinking and dressing in an unkempt manner often accompany...

With mid-summer optimism, one expects that the worries about the stagnant economies of eurozone are over and recovery, which has been elusive, finally creeps in. On the surface, the waters appear calm...

On 9 August, Air Malta operated its first flight to Kassel’s new airport in the western German state of Hessen. The special charter flight transported the 140 members of the European youth...

There is no doubt that the Nationalist Party is still finding its feet after the electoral debacle. It seems that, in this case, time is certainly not a healer. The defeat, coupled with the huge...

Following a series of floods in Central Europe in 2002 the European Commission set up the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF). The aim of this fund is to provide financial assistance following major...

Gender balance in corporate boards and decision-making positions, the importance of economic cooperation between the European Union (EU) Member States and EU trade relations worldwide, online gambling...

I had already thought of writing about this, and then dismissed it as being not particularly important, when a series of entirely random conversations made me think that perhaps it is not that...

Recently I was walking hurriedly to attend a meeting in Republic Street in Valletta a day after I went with a relative to a shabby town in the northern part of the island. While walking, some random...

There were many reasons that led the Labour Party to victory in the March election.   One of them was that Joseph Muscat was clever enough to pick on issues that people were most irked about...

The first two weeks in August bring back memories, mostly enjoyable, all to do with the San Gaetano feast in Hamrun, my birthplace and, until some years ago, my residence.   But...