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Pointing fingers rather than shouldering responsibility
Recent comments by Prime Minister Robert Abela, blaming government employees having “cushy jobs,” for Labour’s disappointing results in the June 8 elections have sparked a significant backlash, most notably from…
6 reasons why council results differed from the MEP election
The June 8 MEP and local council election have been done and dusted but many have queried the reason why the results were significantly different. Why in the MEP election…
European Parliament ready to engage, President Metsola tells the European Council
EP President Metsola emphasised the strongest commitment of the Parliament to ensuring the smooth running of the process leading to the election of the next Commission President. Addressing the informal…
Election 2024: Updated seat projection for new European Parliament
The above projection is based on final results from 17 EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland Slovakia;…
MEP Election Analysis: Who Are the real winners?
The June 8 MEP elections took pollsters and both major parties by surprise due to the unexpectedly narrow margin between them, shrinking to just 8,454 votes. This is a stark…
Serving Malta’s long-term interests
The recent MEP election result has sent a clear message to Prime Minister Robert Abela and the Labour Party: despite maintaining a majority, the loss of a seat and a…
European elections: EU institutions prepared to counter disinformation
The EU institutions are playing their part in defending the European elections on 6-9 June against disinformation and information manipulation targeting European democracy. The European elections are a flagship of…
Significant decline in workers’ rights in Malta
A significant decline in workers’ rights in Malta over the past 15 years has resulted in a worrying drop in industrial democracy which has plunged to the fourth place from…
Our vote on June 8
As we approach the European and local council elections on June 8, we are reminded of the fundamental democratic right to vote - a right that many fought hard to…
Malta’s tangentopoli unfolding
The Vitals Global Healthcare (VGH) scandal, now under intense scrutiny through the Vitals Inquiry, has drawn parallels with Italy’s infamous Tangentopoli scandal of the early 1990s, and the comparison is…