The Europe I want to live in
Jurgen Balzan
Migration poses a number of challenges which we must address. However, these changes cannot be stopped or pushed back. We can either embrace it or resist it and create conflict.
No spoliation if defendant had purchased the property, with plans showing windows
Malcolm Mifsud
Before the application was lodged the defendants constructed a new window overlooking the drive-in and this, according to the plaintiffs, was done against the law. 
Making way for new blood
Josanne Cassar

It is very easy to empathize with someone who feel his days as a professional are not “over” and that he has a lot more to give. This enthusiasm,...

It is very easy to empathize with someone who feel his days...

Cartoon: 20 September 2015

David Agius slam-dunked...

David Agius slam-dunked...

What if it was the other JC?
Raphael Vassallo

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a predilection for tits, asses and wildly exaggerated headlines. Last I looked, The Telegraph in particular...

We’re not just talking smutty tabloids with a...

Populism on oil prices doesn’t help

Busuttil’s demands today immediately contrast with his immediate predecessor’s insistence on higher energy prices

Busuttil’s demands today immediately contrast with...

Cartoon: 16 September 2015
Migration, belatedly on top of the EU agenda
Leo Brincat

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of shared...

The Valletta Summit is important because in a true sense of...

Compassion is no insurance policy
Jurgen Balzan

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to reach Europe by boat from Libya disappears as soon as the cameras at the extraordinary summits in...

The outrage at the death of asylum seekers attempting to...

Learning how to handle money
Evarist Bartolo

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and wants and then to graduate to budgeting income and expenditure

We need to help our children distinguish between needs and...

It’s doom alone that counts
Raphael Vassallo

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the introduction of civil unions: but again, the thrust of the scaremongering was all along about the...

It may be too early to draw similar conclusions about the...

Blurred lines between Church and State

Pope Francis’s reform has now streamlined the Ecclesiastic Annulment process by (among other things) scaling back the excessive bureaucracy that had...

Pope Francis’s reform has now streamlined the...

Simon panders to business. At what cost?
James Debono

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions about his own electorate. He apes Muscat’s pre-2013 populism when voters expect him to be a voice...

Politically, Busuttil is making some wrong assumptions...

Against the moral blackmail
Matthew Vella

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious banging. They are shouting bloody murder at the top of their voices and drowning out the real human...

Pro-lifers tend to be gung-ho about their sanctimonious...

Letters: 13 September 2015
Whatever happened to honour thy mother and father?
Josanne Cassar

Government needs to tread very carefully on its Bill to protect the elderly...

Government needs to tread very carefully on its Bill to...

Cartoon: 13 September 2015
Court keeps garnishee order intact
Malcolm Mifsud

The First Hall of the Civil Court refused an application for the revocation of a garnishee order by means of a counter warrant, holding that the order was...

The First Hall of the Civil Court refused an application...

The Europe I love (no more?)
James Debono

I was always in love with the idea of Europe; its openness and its roots in the popular struggle against Nazism and Fascism.  But now I find  myself...

I was always in love with the idea of Europe; its openness...

Europe must not shirk its refugee obligations

This is not merely a challenge to Europe’s organisational capability when...

This is not merely a challenge to Europe’s...