Court strikes down severe cash penalty as unconstitutional

In a landmark decision, the Constitutional Court on 24 June 2024 declared a regulation imposing a 55% penalty on travellers carrying over €10,000 in cash as unconstitutional

Is the Pope worried about AI?

Alexiei Dingli

The Pope’s vision focuses on an AI that augments human creativity and progress within ethical bounds

Cartoon by Mikiel Galea

Robert Abela must decide whether to continue acting as defence lawyer to Joseph Muscat, Konrad Mizzi and Keith Schembri, or keep his distance from them. Abela...

Robert Abela must decide whether to continue acting as...

Mark Said

Until satisfactory answers are found to those questions, the PN risks continuing to wait for Godot, living without a sense of meaning, value or truth, and...

Until satisfactory answers are found to those questions,...

Alexiei Dingli

Over the past decade, a significant shift has occurred. The Web's initial ethos of decentralisation and empowerment has been overshadowed by...

Over the past decade, a significant shift has occurred. The...

Michael Falzon

Someone is bullying Malta to refrain from doing what everybody in Malta agrees upon. I ‘suspect’ it must be Uncle Sam

Someone is bullying Malta to refrain from doing what...

Hey local councils: What exactly are you responsible for?

Josanne Cassar

If candidates running for re-election can promise us all sorts of marvellous...

If candidates running for re-election can promise us all...

MEP election is stiff yellow card to Labour

With a heavily reduced gap, it is clear to everyone that the Labour Party was...

With a heavily reduced gap, it is clear to everyone that...

Once upon a time there was a super majority

Saviour Balzan

Robert Abela will have to accept that the super majorities for Labour are...

Robert Abela will have to accept that the super...

After Europe, it will be yet another day... except for some

Saviour Balzan

We will wake up with an electoral result that will determine to what extent...

We will wake up with an electoral result that will...

We need to get rid of the last vestiges of protectionism in the cab industry

It is pretty obvious that the decision to control the presence of Y-plate cabs in these key locations is not one motivated by a higher public good but more of...

It is pretty obvious that the decision to control the...

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Peter Agius

Raising the level in Malta to EU standards was one of the reasons for joining the EU, and this is still valid today more than ever before when sewage is...

Raising the level in Malta to EU standards was one of the...

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Mark Said

Today, Malta is saddled with a government that launched structural reforms that were celebrated at the time of their approval but diluted or sabotaged at the...

Today, Malta is saddled with a government that launched...

Saviour Balzan

Maltese politics is crying out for some bright stars to combat the establishment and change it not from within but from without through the polling booths

Maltese politics is crying out for some bright stars to...

Now’s the chance to influence who all six MEPs will be

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Voting is a right we often take for granted and yet it is a...

The final lap | Claudette Abela Baldacchino

My pledge this time around is to make sure such anti-Malta arrogance does not...

My pledge this time around is to make sure such anti-Malta...

Maltese property prices and the Green Deal

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While sustainability remains of vital importance, the green deal must also be a...

While sustainability remains of vital importance, the green...

Abandon cheap provincial politics, go Green

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Our policies will bridge the gap between the richest and the poorest, ensuring...

Our policies will bridge the gap between the richest and...