Youth unemployment is a major challenge facing EU Member States.  Some even consider the problem to be out of control.  It is estimated that across the EU, 23.5% of young people up to the...

I had a brief moment back there when I thought it might be a good idea to ring round Malta’s newspaper columnists and suggest banding together. We could release a statement against the violation...

‘Malta hanina, hobza u sardina’.  This idiom was frequently used in the 70s when the late Prime Minister Dom Mintoff broke ranks with UK and found comfort in the arms of the slain...

That Was The Week That Was as the old TV programme used to say.   We can well say that the week just ended was a watershed for the country.   We always knew that there was a...

There is an army (but no navy...) of barely educated people of all social classes out there right now, on the Internet and in cafes, at parties and round the lunch table, arguing that if the expulsion...

My grandfather Salvu was parsimonious with words.   His greatest joy was to see his sons, daughters and grandchildren gathered together and talking animatedly while he checked that everyone...

Joseph Muscat’s rawness as a leader got him into the current mess and he has painted himself into a corner. Refuting it or not, he botched it. First, he got all Bolshie and made an announcement...

There is one absolute certainty about how the EU works. It is 99 per cent talk, talk and yet more talk, and the real decisions that take the remaining one per cent are only taken when an impending...

More than five hundred irregular immigrants have been brought to shore in the last few days. Neither the landings nor the number are unprecedented: the PN government had to deal with worse situations....

Since last Thursday’s publication on line of the Organisational and HM Assessment of WasteServ Malta through the DOI and other sections of the local media, I have been bombarded with two main...