Who can forget his moving homily at the Mass for the inauguration of the pontificate of his pontificate, when, in a fully packed St Peter’s Square, on the bright Sunday of 22 October 1978...

It is a mighty good thing that my legs are on the short side for I am saved from getting cramps when I’m up in the air – which is often enough. Flying does have one advantage however; it gives me time to catch up with what is going on, ...

A couple of weeks ago the Maltese media was buzzing with two apparently separate stories. Firstly, a lap dancer, of foreign origin of course, ...

Global financial markets appear to be remarkably relaxed about a cautious recovery. Share prices are roaring away on the back of optimism about the growth prospects of the world’s two biggest economies,...

It was bound to happen sooner or later.The Labour Party was ready for it, prepared for the occasion with care, and the Nationalist Party fell into the trap....

Soon as people anywhere show they cannot take more of a regime, a government, a dictator, a system... soon step in the pundits and the social stokers talking sanctimoniously about stability. Hardly had the...

Various forms of common ‘European bonds’, more precisely eurobonds, have been proposed recently as a way out of the current euro crisis, with proponents ...

Last week a summit was held in Brussels where the German plan to boost economic coordination in the eurozone was unveiled to EU leaders. Germany ...

The heart of any government is found in its budget. Politicians can make endless promises, but if the budget doesn’t add up, politics is little more than mere words...

These past few weeks we have witnessed through the media the rioting and protests that were taking place in Egypt and Tunisia. Events unfolding in Tunisia seem to have now dropped out of the news, although it was there that the protests started...