Almost eighty years ago the Nuremberg Trials established that the defence of following illegal orders was no longer an excuse, and therefore no longer tenable in a court of law.   Any...

“They want to instill fear to stop the country from progressing.  I tell them only one thing - you don’t stand a chance. You have fun with your blogs and the books you revel in - we...

Recent declarations would indicate a strange kind of government. If ours were a different system, one would be justified to conclude that this is a coalition government. But ours is a two-party...

They say that a day is a long time in politics. And yet, my first 12 months as an elected official have come and gone in a flash.  My journey as parliamentary secretary for Fisheries, Aquaculture...

On Tuesday the Opposition in Parliament requested an urgent debate on the future of Air Malta. The Speaker rightly refused the request. What sense does it make to have such a public debate when...

Speaking at the launch of the Central Bank’s Annual Report, the Governor of the Central Bank, Edward Scicluna, boasted that the rate of inflation in Malta is lower than that of the Euro...

Today, Ramadan is expected to come to an end for more than a billion Muslims worldwide, including, of course, for those Maltese citizens who follow the religion of Islam and for other Muslims who,...

Power in any society is never just concentrated in one individual or group. It is exercised through different channels, the most obvious ones being political, economic and social in nature. Cultural,...

Within the public sphere, we frequently encounter contrasting perspectives about the state of Malta’s democracy. For some, we’ve never had it better, whilst for others, we are facing a...

The EU’s efforts to develop its capital markets remain an ongoing story. In the US, investments are mainly mobilised by companies which attract the private funds that they need to operate ...