During the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) held on 8 July, the ministers from the EU-27 concluded that active measures are required in order to enhance transparency in the banking sector and ...

Dear readers, for today’s beach aerobics, repeat this exercise after me: grandparents, grandchildren, granddaughter and grandson; uncle and aunt, nephew and niece; grandparents, grandchildren, uncle and aunt, nephew and niece. ...

It is being said that one of the main requirements for Malta Shipyards to be in a position to be privatised and for potential interested parties to be interested in taking over this huge entity,...

As Members of the European Parliament are currently in their countries for the summer time and parliamentary work in Brussels slows down, the President of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering was full of activity with ...

The other day I wrote a letter to another daily newspaper on the inherent environmental contradictions on the local scene.One of the questions I raised was how can one take the government’s commitment in favour ...

Pirandello is one of my favourite writers and dramatists. An Italian author, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934 for his bold and brilliant renovation of the drama and the stage, ...

Frontex is the EU Agency for the management and control of the EU Borders, be they air, land or maritime. As an EU Agency, Frontex is still in its infancy although it is a fact that already a lot has been said and written about its functions, ...

Is it the summer heat or has everyone gone crazy? How dare the government squander taxpayers’ money, offering shipyards employees yet another early retiring scheme possibly costing the nation some e49 ...

Predictably, the suggestion by the Prime Minister and by his minister of social policy that we might – just might – move in the direction of divorce legislation has brought out the usual suspects, protesting all the way to the gallows....

Propagating knowledge of the Middle KingdomThe Olympic March Past is in its final stages as I type. La délegation française marches by and the show has been on for over two hours. It has been a breathtaking experience, well worth the millions...