When the architects of the euro started drawing up plans for its creation in the late 1980s, economists warned them that a viable monetary union required more than an independent central bank and a framework for budgetary discipline...

All those familiar with US military jargon very well know what the acronym ‘SNAFU’ stands for. It was first developed during World War II in cases when a bad situation becomes even worse almost as a matter of routine...

Despite repeated assurances by European Union leaders, after more than two years...

Serving the people is a privilege. Personally I have had this privilege for more than eighteen years; first in the Zejtun Local Council and from October 1996 onwards in Parliament....

The European Commission, commonly referred to as Brussels, has just given Malta several warnings about the vulnerability of its economy and made the following six recommendations:...

Last Sunday’s edition of our paper and other national media carried reports about the rather critical discussions between Air Malta’s management and staff. While one cannot ...

Much of what we are living through these days has a terrible sense of déjà vu. In 1998, (it was in July – the only difference) the...

Regrettably, I was unable to attend the Chesterton Conference held by the GK Chesterton Institute for Faith and Culture at the University of Malta ...

Franco Debono’s vote against the government of which he forms a part and, more specifically, his nemesis Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici, is a defeat for the renegade Għaxaq...

This past week has given us some great lessons in Maltese democracy, which is the spiritual child of all those other great democracies of the Mediterranean, which gave us...