Ġużepp Cauchi, known in Għarb as Ta’ Neriku, was born on 3 January 1910. He would later become one of the lesser-known Gozitan names tied to the Second World War, not through the bombing of Malta itself, but through a grim chain of events that took him from Gozo to Australia, then to Greece, and finally to a Nazi camp outside Berlin. Cauchi left Gozo as a teenager, emigrating to Australia in 1926, part of a broader pattern of Maltese and Gozitan migration in search of work a

On 2 January 2022, Paulina Dembska, a 29 year old Polish national living in Malta, was killed in Independence Gardens, Sliema. A man, Abner Aquilina, was later charged with her rape and murder. The killing, which took place in a public space in the early hours of the morning, shocked the country and quickly became one of the most closely followed criminal cases in recent Maltese history.

At midnight on 1 January 2008 , the Maltese lira officially ceased to be the country’s currency, replaced by the euro after more than three decades as the unit of an independent state. The moment was marked by a simple withdrawal of the first euro banknotes from an ATM in Valletta. Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi, Finance Minister Tonio Fenech and Central Bank Governor Michael C. Bonello were among those present as Malta crossed the threshold into the euro area. The three were

The bottom line is simpler than the politics makes it sound. The “My Voice, My Choice” vote does not introduce abortion in Malta, and it does not create a fund today. It strengthens the political push for an EU-level financing mechanism that could reduce the cost of travel-based access for people in restrictive Member States, including Malta. Whether Maltese residents could benefit even if Malta opts out depends on whether the final design funds providers directly, or channel

STRASBOURG. Irma Dimitradze came to the European Parliament to speak for someone who could not. Dimitradze, a Georgian journalist from Batumelebi, represented her imprisoned colleague Mzia Amaglobeli at the Sakharov Prize ceremony. The prize is designed to spotlight freedom of thought. In Georgia’s current climate, that spotlight functions as both protection and provocation. Amaglobeli’s detention has become part of a wider argument about whether Georgia is moving closer to E

Malta’s path to Energy Independence depends on offshore wind, solar growth and new interconnectors that shift the system away from costly long term subsidies.

With fertility rates in Malta among the lowest in Europe, the article explains why delayed adulthood is a key driver and suggests reintroducing apprenticeships to give young people earlier stability.

How Energy Subsidies Malta shaped inflation and what ending them would mean for households and the economy.

One morning in Kalkara, a fake Colosseum towers over the harbour. Extras in armour line up for battle scenes. That little corner of Hollywood isn’t there just because Malta is sunny. It exists because the state chose to throw serious incentives at foreign productions, including a cash rebate that can refund up to 40% of eligible local spending, and to market Malta as a prime filming location. Those rebates are what turn warehouses into studios and dockyards into film sets. Zo

The disappearance of slavery in Malta is often attributed to a single moment in 1798, when Napoleon abolished the practice after capturing the islands. The reality is more complex. The end of slavery in Malta was not a sudden reform driven by enlightened ideals. It was the product of decades of negotiation, foreign intervention, financial incentives, and geopolitical shifts that gradually eroded a system that had shaped Maltese society for centuries. By the late eighteenth ce