Horizons has just published an extremely interesting book on Herbert Ganado, edited by Sergio Grech. For all those interested in the development of local politics, it is a must read. Some of the...

One has to be quite sceptical about whether a real and significant agreement can be reached in the summit about climate change now being held in Paris. In a scenario where globalised competition...

Working with young people, lecturing, researching and heading the Department of Youth and Community Studies at the University of Malta is a privilege. This department is focused on developing...

‘An economy for the People’ is a working document, recently releasedby the Nationalist Party. Unfortunately this document was overshadowed by two high powered meetings, the Valletta...

One of the news items in the BBC World News, on Thursday, 19th November, was the fact that the younger generation in the UK is no longer guaranteed to be better off than their parents.  The...

The present crisis in Europe should not be underestimated. In the areas of security and immigration, huge cracks have emerged in the ways by which decisions are being taken at a European level, as...

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting has come and gone, and the enduring image - fatefully - will be that of our head of state wearing the beautiful pea-green boat in which the Owl and the...

We do not usually think of the euro in the same way that we think of Schengen but, in fact, they both have a common parent: the decision, taken long ago, to open up Europe and to beget a single market...

Next week’s Paris Climate Change meeting is the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) relative to the UN Framework on Climate Change, a framework treaty signed in Rio de Janeiro at the 1992 Rio...

I wonder if it is also happening to many others, but I have, in recent weeks, found myself applauding Vladimir Putin for stealing a march on the rest of the world by going full blast against the...