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Is it time for Malta to restrict foreign property purchases? Lessons from global policies | James Grech

In recent years, soaring property prices, overdevelopment and mounting concerns over housing affordability have led to increasing debate – should Malta follow...

Money for licences, falling balconies and fake IDs

Josanne Cassar

While it is a good sign that there is some attempt by the Transport Ministry to resolve the daily traffic nightmare, somehow the measures being announced do not seem to be getting...

Josanne Cassar

The Xarabank debate between Muscat and Busuttil will go down in history as one of the worst examples of political debates I have ever seen

The Xarabank debate between Muscat and Busuttil will go...

Saviour Balzan

The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it should stand for. Failure to do so will render it irrelevant

The PN needs to kick start the process of seeing what it...

Franco Debono for PN leader? Excellent idea!

Raphael Vassallo

What the PN needs now are good ideas. And Franco Debono is literally swimming...

What the PN needs now are good ideas. And Franco Debono is...

How social media skewed an election campaign

Josanne Cassar

On the eve of the election people were receiving warning messages and...

On the eve of the election people were receiving...

Raphael Vassallo

I would like to think it is not beyond our collective capabilities to come together and thrash out this national, endemic problem of ours. But we do have to...

I would like to think it is not beyond our collective...

Saviour Balzan

In this great charade, anybody who questioned the veracity of these stories was called a Joseph Muscat ass licker or a stooge of the State. No one was...

In this great charade, anybody who questioned the veracity...

Even this tense election had light moments

Josanne Cassar

There were the occasional moments when we still managed to muster a smile. And...

There were the occasional moments when we still managed to...

Evarist Bartolo

We have a common attribute – we are all Maltese and the government must continue to work hard to ensure that it governs for the whole people and continue...

We have a common attribute – we are all Maltese and...

Michael Falzon

I could not hope that in his second term, Muscat would raise the ethical standards of his performance and suddenly become a paladin of good and transparent...

I could not hope that in his second term, Muscat would...

Michael Falzon

I think that Muscat’s victory this time around will not be as big as that of 2013. In other words Muscat will be re-dimensioned

I think that Muscat’s victory this time around will...

Saviour Balzan

Saviour Balzan blogs: 'Most people were taken over by the two resounding messages: corruption and economy. And really from my point of view, neither of...

Saviour Balzan blogs: 'Most people were taken over by...

Trump’s trip and an American-European split

Matthew Bugeja

By leaving the global system to its own devices, Trump will not do himself, or...

By leaving the global system to its own devices, Trump will...

Simon Busuttil cannot be trusted on Gozo

Joe Cordina recalls that Simon Busuttil was not able to convince the Commission that Gozo should get regional status at a time when we were acceding – a...

Joe Cordina recalls that Simon Busuttil was not able to...

I vote clean, and that means neither PN nor PL

Ralph Cassar

AD candidate Ralph Cassar says that Labour will not get his vote, nor will the...

AD candidate Ralph Cassar says that Labour will not get his...

PN candidate Mark Azzopardi writes: Like a desperate pop star trying to cling on to the charts, after a humiliating first tour, he [Muscat] is trying to use...

PN candidate Mark Azzopardi writes: Like a desperate pop...

Saviour Balzan

There is a feeling that most voters have entrenched themselves, built walls around them, accepted the status quo and simply engaged in a war of attrition that...

There is a feeling that most voters have entrenched...

What kind of Malta do we want to live in?

Josanne Cassar

The kind of Malta I want to live in is one where it is perfectly OK not to...

The kind of Malta I want to live in is one where it is...

Raphael Vassallo

If I’m going to sell out my vote to the highest bidder... I’d much rather sell it to someone who is willing to pay for it with his own money,...

If I’m going to sell out my vote to the highest...