To celebrate its 25th anniversary, Dance Academy is staging the comedic ballet ‘Coppelia’, on Sunday 15 December at 7pm at St. Agatha’s College, in Rabat. The ballet will be...

What makes the insular El Greco the Greek, the cosmopolitan Spanish? Many believe that national identity is subject to the place of major activity undergone by the particular artist. If this is...

A few weeks ago, the Minister of Homeland Security told this newspaper – which reported the fact – that it is his intention to make it a crime to mock Malta’s sale-of-citizenship...

It is always said that the health sector should not be a political football and that instead there should be a concerted effort by all the parties concerned to bring it as close to perfection as...

The majority of commentators seem to agree that the worst of the crisis is over. So do, predictably, the spokespersons in Brussels and before and after every European Council meeting.   But...

At times I find myself asking whether we have really started to appreciate the true value of EU membership. Most of the people I meet repeatedly mention funds and the ‘free’ trips to...

Today’s issue represents yet another milestone on The Malta Independent’s 21-year road. As many of our regular readers will have undoubtedly noticed, today’s issue sports a brand new...

Budget 2014 is definitely behind us now. The media event, that is. The meticulous and less glamorous exercise of sound fiscal planning barely made it on stage before it was quickly ushered out to make...

This last week, the lines have been drawn on several political and economic battlegrounds.   In Italy, the ousting of Berlusconi from the Senate, and the splitting of his party into...

I believe in Malta and am proud of our country. Albeit the smallest member state of the European Union, we can be the Union’s leaders on a number of issues that directly impact us. In all...