The European Parliament today voted overwhelmingly to turn into law the most ambitious anti-corruption directive at EU level, the Head of the Maltese EPP Delegation David Casa announced Thursday. Casa served as the lead negotiator on behalf of the EPP Group, successfully concluding several months of difficult negotiations to secure the directive's
The warning given by David Spiteri Gingell, a governance, institutional and digital transformation consultant, about Malta's childcare system is a serious and necessary intervention in a national conversation that has too often focused on numbers, access and labour participation, while paying insufficient attention to the people at the centre of it
When Fabio Cannavaro raised aloft the golden World Cup trophy inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium in 2006, few could have imagined the pain soccer's biggest event would inflict on Italy over the next two decades. In 2010, the Azzurri put up a woeful title defense, not even winning a game in an embarrassing group-stage exit. In 2014, they again didn't reach
Malta stand on the brink of a potentially historic night at the National Stadium as they host Luxembourg in the first leg of their UEFA Nations League promotion play-off, knowing that a positive result could bring them closer than ever to a first-ever place in League C. Kick-off at Ta' Qali comes with genuine expectation around the national team, but
Parliament has unanimously voted to suspend its deadline to appoint a new Auditor General, meaning that Audit General Charles Deguara will - for now - remain in his post. Extending this constitutional post was backed by both sides of the House as otherwise, the Auditor General position greatly risked remaining vacant by the stipulated deadline. Due
A former cancer nurse who became a priest at the age of 40 was installed as archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday, in a ceremony celebrating her election as the first woman to lead the Church of England. Although Sarah Mullally, 63, formally became archbishop in January, Wednesday's event marked the beginning of her public ministry as both the head
The handling of a rape case dating back to 2008 in Gozo, in which the accused were acquitted in recent days, has raised serious concern because of the disturbing manoeuvres associated with it, ADPD The Green Party said Wednesday.. The case has sparked outrage not only because the system appeared to protect the alleged perpetrators more than the victim,
It’s not the first time I’ve been in wonderment, but last Sunday the wonderment became difficult to ignore. I gazed in wonderment on the audacity with which a straight face was maintained while the mouth was spewing potential porkies like an assembly line on steroids. “It’s nearly ready,” Bobby told us, with the air of a waiter soothing a table whose
Ten years after Parliament unanimously recognised Maltese Sign Language as a national language, Malta has every reason to look back with pride. That decision was more than a legal milestone. It was a statement about the kind of country we claim to be: inclusive, respectful and conscious that dignity is not something to be selectively granted, but something
The head of Europe’s video game rating system, PEGI, has warned against supposed “silver bullet” child protection solutions such as age verification. A new set of PEGI (Pan-European Game Information) age ratings, coming into force from June, will take into account factors including in-game purchases, incentives to constantly revisit games or the ability
