When Leo Brincat gave evidence before the EU Parliamentary Committee on Budgetary Control last week he was, as anticipated, quizzed on his position regarding the Panama Papers. Leo Brincat made...

There is no doubting the positive social impact of religious public holidays in Malta and Gozo and their unique contribution to both the microeconomics and tourism industry. I have to admit, though,...

Until a relatively short while ago, the view held by a good portion of the public, was that they were pleased with themselves for having chosen to “switch” and vote for the Movement of...

In his first video blog for The Malta Independent portal, Salvu Mallia speaks about his disappointment after his popular programme “Madwarna” was stopped by PBS because, he says, he had...

The Labour media is up in arms and putting the blame of what has happened in the European Parliament on the Nationalist Opposition. This argument does not hold water as a similar situation already...

At the last general election Muscat’s Labour Party campaigned in the name of sweetness and light. Gone, gone forever, was the vindictive Labour of the golden years. Over the last three and a...

Desperate and undignified, Leo Brincat has brought out his (obviously miniature) battering-ram and is now doing what he can to force open the door to the European Court of Auditors and a salary of...

There’s no better way to describe the decision of the Nationalist Party for its MEPs to vote against the nomination of Leo Brincat to sit on the European Court of Auditors than this: call it a...

The government’s insistence with Leo Brincat’s nomination for a place on the European Court of Auditors makes me think that Joseph Muscat believes that his lobbying with his Brussels...

I remember very clearly as I was growing up in the 1980s when the social conditions in Malta were terrible, when all we talked about was politics, when those on the other side of the fence were...