Author: Gianluca Vella

  • Malta – Italy Tensions on the rise [UPDATED]

    The Italian home affairs minister Matteo Salvini, has made it clear that Italy would be adopting a substantially stricter position on Malta than it ever has. “The Good Lord put Malta closer to African shores than Sicily,” said Matteo Salvini. “Malta cannot always say ‘no’ to any request to intervene.”

  • Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump arrive in Singapore for Summit

    In what will be the first ever meeting between a leader from the North and a US president, Tuesday is the day which might very well determine how the years and even decades to come will unfold, both politically and economically.

  • Austria shutting down Mosques

    “This is just the beginning of a crackdown” Before he was elected, now Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz had made a promise to crack down on radical islam. Yesterday he announced thst the government will close seven mosques, expelling several more imams from the country. This decision puts into action a law passed in 2015 which…

  • The Resurgence of Nationalism

    The Resurgence of Nationalism

    Do you believe your national and global identity should conflict each other?

  • Spanish Parliament votes to oust Prime Minister

    Spanish socialist Pedro Sánchez secures support for motion of no confidence in Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy. Sánchez has been promised the support of the far-left Podemos, two Catalan pro-independence parties and the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV). He will most probably become the new prime minister of Spain, the first one to be elected by…

  • Of Bombs and Criminals: Malta’s Underlying Organized Crime Problem

    ‘Jewel of the Mediterranean’ is a phrase we hear only too much to describe or country, as it stands as a collection of islands in the middle of the Mediterranean. However, this positive and optimistic atmosphere created around our country does not mean that Malta is not without its pressing problems, of which it certainly…

  • Italian Government Collapse

    Yet another governmental collapse causes an Institutional crisis in Italy. The peninsula has been plunged into fresh political turmoil after prime minister-designate Giuseppe Conte formally rejected a mandate to form a new populist government. M5S is considering calling for the impeachment of president Mattarella.

  • American Media and its Role in Violence and Mass Shootings

    For as long as anyone could remember, the United States has been the main source of public shootings for decades. It seems that we hear at least once every few weeks of a lone gunman shooting at unarmed people in confined spaces like schools, offices or government buildings with the intention of killing as much…

  • The Beginning of Ramadan

    Today marks the beginning of the Ramadan month for Muslim communities around the world. In its event, we would like to share Barack Obama’s 2016 speech about Ramadan, a brilliant example of how we should all approach one another.

  • Is Embryo Freezing ethical in today’s society?

    IVF is understood as in vitro fertilisation this is a process of fertilisation where an egg is combined with sperm outside the body, in vitro. This process has been largely controversial from its beginning due to the morality of it and nowadays the somewhat of the commercialism of IVF. In today’s day and age we…