We all do it, don’t we? Bashing Malta and all it stands for, I mean. We criticize, we moan, we complain and we ...

The word ‘democracy’ originates from the Greek demos, which means ‘people’, and kratos, which means ‘power’. The concept implies government by the people for the people....

When, last Thursday at 4.30pm, I received the news that President Emeritus Guido de Marco had passed away,...

Could football have helped Catalonia ban bullfighting?In 1958, I, as a very small boy, made the then six-hour plane trip from Birmingham, England to Majorca. There, I discovered to my horror,...

On 9 August, the Church’s liturgical calendar marked the feast of Saint Teresa Benedicta...

Nowadays, economists are assailed by irresolute thoughts: what, for example, is the right term to apply to current global economic conditions? Is it “depression,” “recession,” or, finally, “recovery”? ...

There is one bid we tend to hear about regularly. That is Turkey’s bid to form part of the European Union. The bid made by Turkey to join the European Union a few years ago is arguably one of the ...

A niche tourism market is a specific market segment, usually with a well-defined product, that can be tailor-made to meet the interests of the cust...

For over a month, Moscow has been boiling in 40-degree (100 degrees Fahrenheit) heat and heavy, sticky, eye-burning smog. Carbon monoxide levels have reached crisis levels, at six times the maximum allowable concentration...

At a recent restructuring forum held in Brussels to discuss the impact of financial investors on enterprises, Malta was represented through officials from the Finance Ministry, the Confederation of Malta Trade Unions (CMTU) and the Malta Chamber of SMEs. ...