Unlike national administrations, the European Union runs on a relatively small budget in proportion to the EU’s total economic output – typically about 1% of the EU’s GDP...

For many of us in the United States Foreign Service, Lawrence Eagleburger, who died a few weeks ago, was a larger-than-life figure who left an indelible mark on our institution and on our lives...

Through the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020, adopted in November 2010, the European Commission is seeking to improve the living standards of disabled people, recognising the fact that disability issues are a European and national priority...

Religious pluralism is one of the few, truly, modern, expressions...

When Lawrence Gonzi spoke at the Nationalist Party’s general conference last Sunday, he demonstrated that he has failed to grasp the most fundamental ...

The global economy’s most striking feature nowadays is the magnitude and interconnectedness of the macro risks that it faces....

Greece’s ballooning public debt is again throwing Europe’s financial markets into turmoil. But why should a debt default by the government of a small, peripheral economy – one which accounts for less than 3% of eurozone GDP – be so significant?...

Is China poised to surpass the United States to become the world’s largest economy? The International Monetary Fund recently predicted that the size of China’s economy would overtake that of the US in terms of purchasing power parity (PPP) by 2016...

No matter how much and how hard Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi and his spin doctors might have tried to wax lyrical about the diversity of views within the PN during last weekend’s party general council...

We live in an interconnected world, bound together by common risks, hopes and fears...