There was a time when the EU was called the travelling road show.  Summits used to be held in different capitals around Europe, indeed Malta’s application to join the EU was approved in...

I would like to thank the Mission Fund of Mosta for the financial help they have given me towards the running of Lady Graham Maternity Hospital in Hyderabad, Pakistan. At this hospital, we help very...

On 12 August at about 4pm, I fell, cut my lower shin and lacerated the tibia right up to just a few centimetres below my knee. I was taken to the Floriana Health Centre (FHC) by a neighbour, was...

The number of European Union member states where the price of petrol is less than in Malta has gone up to 18. There are 24 EU member states where the price of diesel is less than in Malta. This...

Pope Francis is truly a class act. The man’s genuine good intentions, his attempts to include everyone and his desire to reform the most archaic and bogged down institution in the world have...

“The difficulty,” the seminal economist John Maynard Keynes once wrote, “lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.” True, but in today’s...

After yesterday’s meeting of European Union interior ministers, heads of state will convene in Brussels to try and find a solution to the impasse in Europe’s migrant crisis. The EU’s...

The business of the rewriting of history is growing and growing. We have recently seen the celebration, if that is the word, of the 450th anniversary of the Great Siege of Malta watered down so...

So Minister Joe Mizzi, whose fuse is not noticeably long, upped and left a press conference because of persistent questioning by a Net News reporter who would not take No for an answer and would not...

Time and time again we have seen Europe and the world at large recoil in shock and horror at the multiple shipwrecks in the Mediterranean that have claimed, between them, thousands of lives. Last...