Tunisia’s ‘Jasmine Revolution’ has thrown a spotlight on the consequences of stagnant economies and endemic youth unemployment for the region’s authoritarian Arab governments....

The EU has a rotating Presidency that shifts every six months, giving individual member states a unique opportunity to influence the priorities and direction of the Union...

Top business leaders, politicians and social activists tackled this and a host of other issues as the World Economic Forum opened on Wednesday amid a burst of optimism that the world has seen the worst of the financial crisis and now faces a “new reality”...

This week we have had the visit of the president of the European Parliament. Jerzy Buzek addressed the House of Representatives, touching on the issues about which Malta has been harping for the past few months...

President Barack Obama took a significant step toward retooling his presidency with a challenge to lawmakers to rise above partisan differences to tackle economic and budget problems “decades in the making”...

My antennae tell me that the pro-divorce lobby is about to take one almighty knock as anti-divorce sentiment begins to crystallise....

The new Iraqi government was settling in. The Americans sounded ready to pull out their troops as promised. Even the Iraqi soccer team was winning. The winter days in Baghdad were sunny with a whiff of hope in the air...

While the rich world puts its post-crisis house in order, developing countries as a whole are becoming the new engine of global growth. Increasingly, they are a force pulling the advanced economies forward. But switching locomotives is never free of risk...

The serious allegations made against Kosovo’s current prime minister have raised profound questions about the role of the international community in Kosovo prior to, during and since the NATO-led bombing campaign in 1999...

I have full respect for all those ambassadors who serve their country’s best interests most but even more so for those who try to nurture the best of bilateral relations during their accreditation to Malta...