Any feel-good factor that the government intended to create with an election-type of budget it presented on Monday has already evaporated. It has been an extremely bad week for the...

It was an epic budget, as long as all the world's classics put together, and with a bit of each. Those who survived kept shifting positions and twisting their bodies to pinch themselves into remaining...

Or so he said on a tour of the Playmobil toy factory yesterday. So that's all right then - as long as he is prepared to take the insults and criticism that come his way for failing so badly in his...

One criticism that is being levelled against this budget from within the Labour structures is the lack of social vision. To borrow an expression used by late Prime Minister Dom Mintoff against Alfred...

Monday's budget was largely (and I stress "largely") unimpressive and did not take the country forward. I was tempted to say that it was a farce when I was hosted on One TV on Monday night - and night...

Prime Minister Joseph Muscat was right when he said, during his post-budget press conference, that in the past such financial exercises used to be stingy in the first two or three years of the...

The budget speech delivered yesterday evening by Prof Edward Scicluna, Minister for Finance is extensively covered this morning in the printed newspapers. All carry detailed reports, tables, figures,...

Faith is taking the first step, even when you do not see the whole staircase - Martin Luther King Jr. That is exactly what we do when we vote in a new government, or oust an old one. We are...

Being budget week I suppose it's more than legitimate to bring up the 'give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar' argument, especially when focusing on the social constituent of the government's plan for...

Echoes of the ton-ta’ zejt budgets of the 80’s are around us.  The trumpets are sounding and the carpet is being rolled out for the big announcements as people tune in to hear about...