Where is the surplus?
Friday, 13 October 2017, 09:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
Alex Muscat
Last year the Government registered a surplus of €100 million, following more than 35 years of successive deficits. Labour turned a deficit of more than €360 million in 2012 to a surplus in...
Christmas comes early with Labour
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 10:25
Last update: about 8 years ago
Stephen Calleja
A budget without new taxes is rare, if not unique. A budget with no increases to existing taxes, not even on cigarettes, is probably unprecedented. Usually, the first budget after an...
Budget 2018: A missed opportunity
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 09:35
Last update: about 8 years ago
Mario de Marco
If I had to choose two words to describe this year’s budget I would use “missed opportunity”. In a budget speech ironically called Investing for the Future, Minister Edward Scicluna...
Fiscal space
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 07:42
Last update: about 8 years ago
Alfred Sant
The best analysis that could be attempted of the 2018 budget should focus on how the fiscal space the government presently enjoys is going to be used to guide future developments. It’s been...
All those chickens, coming home to roost
Thursday, 12 October 2017, 07:17
Last update: about 8 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
Any otherwise sensible and politically attuned person who campaigned for Adrian Delia to become leader of the Nationalist Party should by now be undergoing a dawning realisation of something akin to...
RÉSUMÉ
Wednesday, 11 October 2017, 08:03
Last update: about 8 years ago
Andrew Azzopardi
This has been another eventful week. Jerome Frendo: Losing one of yours is always very difficult to fathom and more so at such a tender age. Jerome, this kind, sympathetic and...
You’re still on my agenda
Tuesday, 10 October 2017, 07:21
Last update: about 8 years ago
Gejtu Vella
In the past three weeks, two keynote speeches of substance were delivered. On Independence Day, the Archbishop of Malta Charles J. Scicluna stressed the need to promote the common good during...
Low interest rates
Monday, 9 October 2017, 07:25
Last update: about 8 years ago
Alfred Sant
The low interest rates of past years have put new pressures on many citizens, especially senior ones, for whom interest income on their bank deposits was earmarked to cover a substantial part of their...
Adrian Delia’s first defeats
Sunday, 8 October 2017, 10:00
Last update: about 8 years ago
Noel Grima
This was the week of Adrian Delia’s coronation as PN leader. But it was also the week of his first defeats. In a way, this is understandable in a new leader with no political experience and...
Those positions of trust may be breaking the law
Sunday, 8 October 2017, 09:32
Last update: about 8 years ago
Daphne Caruana Galizia
A few days ago, the Ombudsman presented to Parliament a copy of his plan – called (and this is embarrassing), the Ombudsplan – for next year. It includes some very interesting information...