The United Nations held its Rio+20 conference this week, which aimed to facilitate dialogue between the private sector, NGOs and governing bodies, including the European Union, about pressing environmental...

The re-run of the Greek parliamentary election on 17 June is only the latest symptom of the most serious crisis to plague Western democracies and open societies since the 1960s...

A very old and popular English proverb states that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. The ultimate evidence of the true nature of people is shown when attested by real situations and by their response or reactions...

I have just had the privilege of speaking at the main annual conference of Germany’s Economic Council, the economic and business arm of the Christian Democratic Union, the current governing party...

What we have seen happen over the last few weeks, with its culmination in parliament last Monday night, is the classic actions of a lynch mob, translated into the realm of politics and masquerading as democracy...

The European Commission has just reiterated a number of recommendations on which it considers Malta should be taking action if it is to weather the financial storms ahead to achieve a balanced budget in the medium and long term...

Last week BioEdge reported that a 46-year old businessman from Piraeus, Greece, said that the only way he saw fit to rescue his family from the financial crises was to sell one of his kidneys....

Until the Industrial Revolution, the world was quite flat in terms of per capita income...

Whichever way one looks at things in the countries that have experienced the Arab Spring to varying degrees, there seems to be no looking back...

Tens of thousands of people will soon gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Earth Summit...