The first Foreign and European Affairs Committee meeting under this legislature was held on the 6th May 2013.  During this meeting, Dr George Vella in his capacity of Minister for Foreign Affairs...

As European leaders meet for a Summit in Brussels tomorrow, the crisis brought about by the euro grinds on. It is a political as well as an economic tragedy, a slow-motion car crash for the vision of...

One hundred days ago the Labour Party did not limp across the finishing line; rather, it was a landslide victory.  The PLsecured itsfirst big milestone in recent political history. Today we can...

Malta has benefited from the strong growth as an International Finance Centre (IFC). The financial services sector registered double-digit growth rates over the past three years at a time when other...

You know how they say ‘follow the money’? Nobody has even begun to do that in respect of the ever-increasing presence of China on the government’s agenda. Malta’s forced march...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat knew what he was doing when he appointed a parliamentary secretary for Justice under the responsibility of the Interior Minister.   It was one of his early...

Screams from various quarters rent the air this week following the announcement that Lou Bondi had been chosen to sit on a committee that will oversee some coming national...

The summer season has begun, and with it has come the heat, in every sense.   Temperatures are hitting the high number figures this weekend and we have already started complaining about it,...

The 18th of June marked the hundredth day of the new government. The hundred-day yardstick for measuring a government’s progress is as misleading as it is arbitrary. While the short time-span...

As no doubt everyone is aware by now, this week the Labour Party marked its hundred days in office. It is a period that is often called “the honeymoon period”. But I wouldn’t call it...