The total increase of the financial allocation for arts and culture for the year 2023 compared to the last budget of a PN administration (the budget for the year 2013) is a whopping 150%. The...

On the one hand, Budget 2023 follows a logic of relative stability, in the context of the various global crises through which Malta is navigating. On the other hand, the budget does not give...

In the modern governance of parliamentary democracies, regulatory agencies have been allocated a leading role. Once the idea that economic affairs should be run according to free trade principles...

In the Cold War satirical novel ‘The Mouse That Roared’, Count Rupert of Mountjoy, the Prime Minister of the European Duchy of Grand Fenwick (half the size of Gozo) declares war on the...

A Rumanian minister had to resign for having stated the belief that peace negotiations should bring the Ukraine war to an end. Other politicians in various countries were censored for having made...

On 14 December 2012, Adam Lanza shot 26 people dead at Sandy Hook Elementary school in Connecticut, USA.  20 of them were six or seven year old children. The rest were adult staff members....

The budget for 2023 presented to Parliament by Finance Minister Clyde Caruana last Monday may be described as one which reinforces a culture of dependency. Government handouts are used, left, right...

So Budget Day has come and gone and all those who wanted have had the opportunity to have their say. Institutionally, the Opposition’s reaction comes in the coming days – but don’t...

In these past three years, the European continent and other corners of the globe have faced significant circumstances which created challenges that no one could have predicted or imagined. ...

The budget for the year 2023 has been driven in the right direction, maintaining a reasonable balance between social and economic goals. It is quite clear that whatever has been said about it, the...