Labour leader Joseph Muscat is reported to have said that a new Labour Government will be a guarantee that all our young people, once they have reached the age of 16,...

EP vote scheduled for Tuesday...

This is the question everyone is asking at the moment. I had asked it in a piece I had written on The Malta Independent of 13 February 2009 – ‘Friday Wisdom’. It is worth ...

We are all aware of the intensity and scale of the very different events that have followed each other in the last few years – from the massive south ...

A person who exercises power or influence without holding elected office is invariably referred to as an eminence grise, and not always in a complimentary way. It was a phrase originally applied to Cardinal Richelieu’s...

Data-breaches, intellectual property loss and your money... We have all heard the headlines about the social and economic implications of cyber crime, but how bad is the situation really? ...

More political and economic developments and trends in Europe reveal a clear and manifest rapture in the social fabric of the Continent and its water-surrounded annexes....

The just-concluded French presidential election seemed to suggest that the old left-right divisions are as potent as they have ever been – and certainly in their birthplace. But are they?...

Afghanistan has been the topic of political conversation for over a decade. The role that the West plays or should play in the country continues to be disputed...

A few months ago, 25 of the 27 members of the European Union solemnly signed a treaty that committed them to enshrining tough deficit limits in their national constitutions...