What does the future hold with regards to the economy of Malta? We have lived through years of growth that now appear to be hollow – the much-acclaimed full employment is based on very slippery...

The parliamentary debate on the financial estimates relative to Government entities, which has just been concluded this week, is certainly much more than a run of the mill exercise.  It brings an...

It is necessary to ensure that the measures being taken to contain climate warming are clear and effective, not make believe. Obviously, many of them will generate new economic, financial and social...

At the risk of being branded a prophet of doom, I feel I have to admit that I am worried about the viability of our microstate. I believe that as a nation we are failing to seriously address how we...

The increases in food prices (added to other factors) are disrupting political decision-making in Europe. Prices have increased too much at too fast a pace. Governments can hardly rely any more on the...

Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid people. That is the first of five fundamental laws of human stupidity drawn up in 1976 by an Italian, aptly named Carlo Cipolla,...

The saga of the life-saving abortion required by American tourist Andrea Prudente has come to an end in Malta. Her case has now been exported to the Spanish island of Mallorca where...

The example comes from of all places Kuwait which has been experiencing over 50 degrees repeatedly in summer these past years. One solitary woman has taken over a small area, comparable to a...

Naples, last week, was the meeting place for all the Culture Ministers of the Euro-Mediterranean region.   The conference was both timely and necessary, given the...

At last the news came that the grey paint splashed at us in our role as a financial centre a year ago would be rubbed off. We had not been showing, it was then said, the required  stringency when...