At this time of the year, what happened during the so-called Great Siege often gets highlighted. The Siege was an extremely tough experience for the inhabitants of these islands. Mostly, the story...

Malta has no ring-fenced pension fund wherein our social security contributions are placed in such a fund and invested to create intergenerational returns whilst accounting for immediate (current...

As Malta is moving closer to its yearly national budget, the cost of living is on top of concerns of people living on the islands. In surveys such as those of the Eurobarometer for Malta, the...

Since the start of the war in the Ukraine, most EU leaders have backed the Ukraine in its fight back against the agression of Russian President Putin. They were right to do so. Such support...

Karl Marx advocated the withering away of the capitalist state to be substituted by a communist state. However, what we are witnessing in Malta is a totally different phenomenon: the gradual withering...

Chris Bonett went on holiday to Sicily with his official car, fully-funded by the taxpayer. Many wouldn’t begrudge Bonett using his car for his personal needs in Malta.  Most might even...

The Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission has recently published a study entitled “Regional Impact of Climate Change on European tourism demand”. It aims to provide...

The seeds of change are often first sown in the minds of our youth. In today’s globalised society, education remains an effective and integral tool in raising the next generation of leaders, one...

The monthly opinion polls should be published today, thus marking the end of summer and the resumption of political life (not that it ever goes away). If one looks closely one could already see...

There exist various economic indicators and methods with which to calculate how well a country is doing.  For me, the one indicator which provides the best measurement with regards to economic...