Many, mostly Federalists, locked in a parallel universe which I call the Brussels bubble, keep bashing the intergovernmental approach taken at the last EU Summit in the selection of those presiding...

This week, a world-famous scientific report suggested that a global campaign to plant trees could be the most effective way to mitigate the catastrophic effects of climate change. This is due to the...

Over the past days two statements were issued about waste collection in Malta. In the first, the Local Enforcement System Agency said that 49 people had been booked in St Paul’s Bay,...

The Principal Permanent Secretary, the government’s chief public servant, and the Ombudsman appear to have quite divergent views on the bloated public service and the numbers of positions and...

By all the signs Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat had his eyes firmly on the prize this week, the particular prize being one of the European Union’s coveted top jobs.  But it seems that...

European pension systems are facing the dual challenge of remaining financially sustainable and being able to provide citizens with an adequate income in retirement.  The key purpose of pension...

Nationalist MP Jason Azzopardi has made a very strong claim over the last few days, but his claim has so far remained unsubstantiated.  Speaking at the Council of Europe, after the approval of a...

Air Malta and the pilots’ association (ALPA) are going head-to-head yet again, with industrial action having been temporarily put-off yesterday. The reasons for the industrial action also...

The recently launched regulations for the construction sector are very clearly a rush job. We are not the only ones saying this. In fact, the heads of the two main stakeholder groups in the...

In Brussels, Europe’s leading officials – who very few people can actually name – are convening to decide who takes the top jobs in Europe. Joseph Muscat famously harbours ambitions...