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See this comment by Anton Refalo to Times of Malta who pressed him over the milestone marker from Victorian Malta that’s been ripped out of its unspecified original location and erected in Anton Refalo’s private garden instead, for him to admire while bobbing in his pool. Part of the reason Anton Refalo continues to get away with it is because many

We’re used to our leaders strutting, smirking and then caving before someone of substance they can’t ignore. Joseph Muscat squirmed before the BBC; Evarist Bartolo cowered before Deutsche Welle. And, only last week, our great leaders simpered like awed schoolboys in the presence of Ukraine’s war president, Volodymyr Zelensky. The embarrassing spectacle

Craning over Sannat My village, Sannat, lies under the shadow of sudden overdevelopment, on a scale previously unknown. As of this morning, I counted 11 cranes towering over us, overflying neighbouring properties, with limited consideration for their safety and no compensation for the intrusion (unlike, say, the UK). That’s right: a relatively small

Three years ago, Greco, the Council of Europe’s Group of States against Corruption, noted the police had the reputation of being traditionally heavily subjected to the executive branch of power. Only last week, Calum Steele, the president of the European Confederation of Police – EuroCOP , said "there is an observed concern that there is too close

Our new parliament will have before it a vote to amend, for the second time: the IVF law called The Embryo Protection Act. This law was first amended in 2018. The 2012 law had allowed ova freezing but not embryo freezing. The narrative for the legal amendment was that it allowed embryo freezing and that this was more efficacious than the one allowing

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has many layers. But it was a trade agreement that was one of the main triggers to the political unrest that preceded today’s war. In 2007, the EU and Ukraine started negotiating a so-called Association Agreement which also contained a free trade agreement between the two sides. In 2013, when the agreement was complete,

The World Health Organisation predicts that, in some European countries, obesity will overtake smoking as the main risk factor for preventable cancer over the next few decades. At this rate, one of those countries is sure to be Malta. In the WHO’s European Regional Obesity Report for 2022, the island is a true heavyweight. Malta ranks second for adult

EU focuses on vocational skills to deliver the green transition In these difficult times, the EU is committed to supporting people fleeing the war in Ukraine to integrate into the European labour market, should they wish to. The EU and its member states stand ready to help them map their qualifications, undertake vocational education and training and