It was exactly three weeks ago today, on Monday 29 May, that the European Council of Ministers for Competitiveness agreed on a compromise text of a directive on services in the internal market....

The reputable German sociologist, Max Weber, contended that although, in his view, politics is not an ethical business, there does nevertheless exist a certain minimum of shame and obligation to behave decently,...

Our political leaders crossed swords this week, debating whether two years down the road EU membership has been a positive experience. ...

Last week Mr Speaker, in his 7 June speech, stressed that Parliament is more than quorum calls, parliamentary questions and speeches. ...

Yesterday, the world-marked Elderly Abuse Awareness Day, specifically set up to make the people more conscious about a matter that is normally not given too much attention in the media....

Fr Jim Spillane is among the survivors of the earthquake that hit Yogyakarta on Saturday 27 May at 6am registering 5.9 on the Richter scale. ...

While holidaying in Malta in May, I read in your interesting newspaper that children were launching your response to the EU campaign “You Control Climate Change” (TMID, 6 June)....

A reader called to say how angry she was when she saw her daughter’s school-leaving certificate. ...

The Lisbon Agenda, a 10-year plan to turn Europe into the leading knowledge-based economy by 2010, has been a letdown for bureaucrats in Brussels and has created a distorted benchmarking exercise for European Union member states....

Pain can be the most traumatic as well as destructive experience a human person can go through. ...