I noticed with interest that the government has published a Bill to amend the Malta Communications Authority Act. The most notable feature of this Bill is the part which deals with the removal of the...

Actually, it is very easy to follow the logic behind Simon Busuttil’s and his party’s destructive opposition to the revamped Individual Investor Programme (IIP). They are more than...

Reference is made to George Sacco’s letter entitled “No effective enforcement” (TMIS, 12 January).   I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Mr Sacco has an...

The European Parliament has now delivered its verdict, clearing establishing that citizenship should not be for sale. It did so not by some slim majority, but by over 90% of the vote. Prime Minister...

Those who on a Sunday in winter love to go up to Mdina will no doubt have remarked on the lawlessness that is evident there and which seems to have increased by leaps and bounds.   There was...

After a great start last Friday, 10 January with the staging of Handel’s Messiah and a weekend of Rameau’s music with the parody Hippolyte et Aricie at Teatru Manoel, this week and...

At the beginning of this month, Greece assumed the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.  It took over from Lithuania, the other member of the Trio together with Ireland, and will be...

With his actions over the past days, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has put Malta squarely in the footsteps of Hungary and its maverick Prime Minister Viktor Orban.   The Hungarian prime...

This year Dr George Abela’s Presidency comes to its natural end and the House of Representatives will have to elect by resolution a new President. When all is said Dr Abela’s presidency...

The debate in the European Parliament yesterday evening was dominated, as expected, by the view that citizenship should not be sold. After Malta’s name was removed from the original resolution...