Reading between the lines of the Council of Europe Venice Commission's opinion on Malta, one basic preoccupation sticks out: is Malta a parliamentary democracy? Perusal of the opinion, released...

I was struck, this past week, by an opinion piece I came across on the online newspaper EUobserver following the publication of the Venice Commission's report on Malta. Although access was initially...

Nationalist MEP Roberta Metsola believes that, for the time being, her place is in the European Parliament but would “respond” to whatever the party asks of her. Metsola was...

The Government of Malta positively welcomes the opinion of the European Commission for Democracy through Law, known as the Venice Commission. +++ On the 13th of October this year, the...

To the same extent that the EU of 27 kept a united front with respect to Brexit, they failed to keep it and still are not keeping it with respect to migration issues. Plans or projects to establish a...

The Christmas Tree in our culture represents ‘shining hope’.   This is a list of people who would make up my ‘Christmas Tree’, individuals who in their own way, even...

In his vlog MEP Zammit Dimech explains how throughout his work as MEP, several stakeholders speak to him about EU funding. Scientists want more funds for research, artists from small organisations...

One day some 20 years ago I lay on a hospital bed nearly unconscious and heard a doctor telling my mother that it didn’t look good. My only memory from that day is the one where I was thinking...

I cannot explain how Jesus is said to have walked on water and I do not know how Donald Trump became President of the United States, but my current conundrum concerns the way this small, once...

The latest price index according to the EU’s methodology (HICP) seems to confirm that the pressure of price increases is mainly affecting those with low to lower middle incomes. The highest...