As the Gonzi administration limps towards the fag-end of its time in office and Malta looks ahead to the start of a new government, possibly led by the Labour Party, it may be timely to remind all...

The survival of the eurozone intact throughout the past year has been rightly understood as a political and technical achievement. Fears that the euro would collapse, that Greece would exit the zone...

With a phoney electoral truce just drawing to an end, one is inevitably bound to ask whether we will really have a clean election campaign or not.   While political leaders have pledged to...

Over the past decades, the world has under gone a significant degree of urbanisation, as more and more people are living in cities across the globe. According to figures published by the United...

A happy new year to our readers.   We have just exited from an exciting year, and are now looking forward to another 60 days of interesting times. The campaign will unfold as from next...

January 1 marked the start of the European Year of Citizens. The concept of EU citizenship was introduced in 1993 with the coming into force of the Treaty of Maastricht. The rights associated with...

One of the problems with living in this century is that every passing year is mentally ticked off against that major calendar milestone – the year 2000, or Y2K (its naffer moniker at the time)...

The eurozone crisis is three years old.  It has been a tumultuous period not only for the 17 countries in the monetary union, but also for the rest of the EU. Greece has suffered five years of...

It might sound somewhat ironic to start off a New Year’s Day article in which I sincerely wish the very best to all of your readers irrespective of their political views and leanings, by quoting...

The night before last I watched Xarabank’s special edition on 50 years of Maltese television. One of the most disturbing elements of this experience was the dawning realisation that I remembered...