This missive comes to you from the fair city of Frankfurt. I’m here with a troop of Maltese expats to visit the International Book Fair that is being held over the weekend. Last night was mostly dedicated to savouring local foods. ...

Amid all the political uncertainty and market turbulence that is becoming a seemingly intractable feature of life in the euro area, there was one b...

Over a year on from fiercely contested general elections, Bosnia-Herzegovina remains without a state-level government; an unfortunate distinction it shares with Belgium, towards whom its future is almost ironically oriented...

Value added tax is common to every single member of the European Union. But the manner in which this ubiquitous tax is accounted for is subject to different national approaches...

So-called ‘impact investors’ – providers of capital to businesses that solve social challenges while generating a profit – are the current rage in economic development...

Going online is now embedded in children’s daily lives. Whether on a computer at school, a laptop at home...

We live in an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not local. What happens “abroad” – in China, India, and elsewhere – powerfully affects even an economy as large as the United States...

The Maltese outpost of the Catholic Church is in financial trouble. I will resist the urge to make wisecracks about Joseph Muscat, the mittilkless and electricity bills, and move on....

Two countries divided by a short span of sea and with an incredible similarity in language, Malta and Libya have been connected in one way or another since time immemorial...

An Italian murderer’s jail sentence was recently reduced after brain scan proved that he had a mental disorder which was reduced to his genetic make-up...