This week  I attended, along with my colleagues in the EU family, a formal Culture Council in Brussels. This Council meeting was one with a difference, as we were joined by the Ukrainian...

Human rights, including the right to own property are recognized as a fundamental basis on which modern democratic society is built. However the same rights also have, and should have, a social...

Across the Eurozone and other economic blocs around the world, it seems that inflation is here to stay for the foreseeable future. This is hardly surprising, given global crises such as those related...

By means of clause 2 of Bill No. 28 of 2022, published in The Malta Government Gazette of Monday, 21 November 2022, government is proposing to introduce abortion in Malta through the back door. It...

In the last 40 years more than 30 women have been murdered in Malta, the last one Bernice Cassar, who was shot in her face and chest a week ago as she was driving to work. Police investigators say her...

Once, a long time ago, during a deep crisis between the US and the USSR of those days, a friend of mine asked: But if instead of pursuing the option of nuclear war, or even of a non-nuclear world war,...

As the world celebrated World Fisheries’ Day earlier this week, the government announced a carefully calibrated, step-by-step consultation process, with the end-goal of creating a new Fishing...

As billions of football fans around the world watch the world cup football, few acknowledge the black cloud of scandal that engulfed FIFA’s dodgy decision to hold the world cup in...

On Monday Parliament approved at first reading stage Bill number 28, a Bill that seeks to clarify the provisions of the Criminal Code relative to therapeutic abortion. Specifically, the objects and...

When, on Tuesday morning, we began hearing about a murder that had just taken place at Corradino where a man shot and killed a woman, I am certain that many of us ran through our list of people we...