The European Commission, commonly referred to as Brussels, has just given Malta several warnings about the vulnerability of its economy and made the following six recommendations:...

Year after year we are told about the need to improve productivity, yet we tolerate administrative practices that are obviously not working well. Indeed, these practices are defended as dogmas ...

This is the question everyone is asking at the moment. I had asked it in a piece I had written on The Malta Independent of 13 February 2009 – ‘Friday Wisdom’. It is worth ...

Surprise, surprise, I read that on a ‘chat show’ that supports the PN on TVM, our national station, Labour MP Adrian Vassallo attacked his leader Joseph Muscat accusing him of behaviour akin to “communism...

Françoise Hollande will probably be elected President of the French Republic for the next five years.There are two ways in which such a result can be interpreted....

Never have the political stakes attached to European construction been so high, surely not since the sixties of the past century. Increasingly, ...

The first round of the French Presidential elections takes place today with the more or less foregone conclusion that President Sarkozy and Socialist challenger Francois Hollande will be chosen to proceed to a two-horse...

Wide consensus that a reform in primary care services is indicated, has been prevalent for some time. The feedback of the consultative process suggested that consensus on the ...

The vote of no confidence debated and decided in Parliament this week produced the exact opposite of what was intended. Instead of stability it ...

The GonziPN government, rather than managing our fortunes, is once again in a crisis, whereas Labour, on the other hand, is excited about our nation’s prospects....