Losing the popular fight
MaltaToday Editorial | There is a reason why the moralistic anticorruption fight has failed to achieve any proper result or institutional concessions
MaltaToday Editorial | There is a reason why the...
A clarification is in order
As Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat has a responsibility to call on Cardona to either confirm his dissociation, or give a public, detailed account of his...
As Prime Minister, Joseph Muscat has a responsibility...
More harm than good
By threatening Malta’s banking system in its totality, Giegold has betrayed the fact that his interest does not lie in genuine reforms but rather,...
By threatening Malta’s banking system in its...
Nipping it in the bud
Scicluna’s decision to invite Bugre to the band club and confront the matter was also a message to Malta’s political leaders
Scicluna’s decision to invite Bugre to the band club...
A green flashpoint
This latest example of an apparent ‘fait accomplit’ raises questions as to the weight public outcry is given in Malta’s planning process
This latest example of an apparent ‘fait...
Will the real PN stand up?
The PN remains beset by infighting, and is still torn between an experiment to sharpen its identitarianism – represented by Delia –...
The PN remains beset by infighting, and is still...
The first year of Adrian Delia
Delia’s recent statements, echoing populist concerns with immigration, have raised uncomfortable questions about the directions he intends to take the PN
Delia’s recent statements, echoing populist concerns...
The perils of a racialised underclass
If the PN co-opts a cheap, far-right bait to win votes in the next European elections, it will be Muscat – with his strong welfarist state and economic...
If the PN co-opts a cheap, far-right bait to win votes in...
Road-widening is a stop-gap measure
Malta may soon reach the critical population mass to make a mass transit system like a monorail or a metro economically feasible. But this will take years to...
Malta may soon reach the critical population mass to make a...
Europe must be united on Libya
In this kind of chaos that Libya seems to have become permanently embroiled, terrorism will thrive
In this kind of chaos that Libya seems to have become...
The political cost of prosperity
Beyond party-politics there is a danger in investing too much in economic growth, and too little anywhere else. It is not just the PN that is...
Beyond party-politics there is a danger in investing...
Prosperity calls for more social awareness
We are forced to question whether Malta’s social services structures are...
We are forced to question whether Malta’s social...
Is the European Commission really concerned with security?
The European Commission has enough credibility issues to cope with, without...
The European Commission has enough credibility issues to...
Criminalising NGOs doesn’t help
It is indeed already incongruous that private NGOs have had to step in where governments refuse to venture; now, it seems EU states want to try and give the...
It is indeed already incongruous that private NGOs have had...
Justice must be a level playing field
In all self-respecting judicial systems, the severity of the crime will be the first consideration in any bail request. In Malta, basic principles are all...
In all self-respecting judicial systems, the severity of...
Rent is a double-edged sword
Other questions remain unanswered. Was all money derived from the 132% increase declared? Are the authorities working to ensure that all taxes are being paid...
Other questions remain unanswered. Was all money derived...
Slime and punishment
If yet another summer goes by without any action to bring tuna farms in line with their permit conditions, it would be a public admission that the entire...
If yet another summer goes by without any action to bring...
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