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[WATCH] Saviour Balzan: What will Robert Abela’s priorities as PM be?

Saviour Balzan

Will Robert Abela tackle the problems of Malta’s deteriorating environment, good governance, transparency and accountability, and conflicts of interest?

We don't need another hero. Just good governance

Josanne Cassar

We just need someone to steer this country towards a more sensible, feet-on-the-ground path

Raphael Vassallo

For Abela did not merely promise ‘continuity’ of Joseph Muscat’s economic or social policies; he also promised ‘continuity’...

For Abela did not merely promise...

Saviour Balzan

Will Robert Abela tackle the problems of Malta’s deteriorating environment, good governance, transparency and accountability, and conflicts of interest?

Will Robert Abela tackle the problems of Malta’s...

Josanne Cassar

We just need someone to steer this country towards a more sensible,...

We just need someone to steer this country towards a more...

Michael Falzon

So we will have to judge the new Prime Minister by what he does in his first 100 days, rather than by what he has been reported saying during the run-up to the...

So we will have to judge the new Prime Minister by what he...

Saviour Balzan

We need to calibrate this society, bring things down to earth a little bit. Bring forward some normality, bring communities together, help build a pluralistic...

We need to calibrate this society, bring things down to...

Muscat’s stadium-filler farewell concert left voters thirsting for more. Abela won easily

Matthew Vella

The Grinch who stole Christmas and the Labour leadership...

How Labour failed to connect with the British working class

The Conversation

Eric Shaw • Deluding others is wrong; deluding yourself is fatal....

Eric Shaw • Deluding others is wrong; deluding...

First we want foreign workers, then we deport their children

Josanne Cassar

Don’t lure TCNs here with false promises, allowing them to build a new...

Don’t lure TCNs here with false promises, allowing...

Raphael Vassallo

Over the years, we have all simply accepted a whole variety of political realities that would be considered bizarre – if not downright unacceptable...

Over the years, we have all simply accepted a whole variety...

Evarist Bartolo

In these difficult times we must strive for reason against passion and hatred; for patriotism rather than partisanship, and above all work together for the...

In these difficult times we must strive for reason against...

Will Labour come clean? It surely cannot have it both ways

Michael Falzon

So long as Muscat clings to his position as Prime Minister, the cleaning up...

So long as Muscat clings to his position as Prime Minister,...

Raphael Vassallo

What interests me more right now are the precise mechanics of how a minority seems to have somehow convinced itself that it had turned the tables on the...

What interests me more right now are the precise mechanics...

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Saviour Balzan

Josanne Cassar

Saviour Balzan

Not all the media treated Labour and the Muscats unfairly; more importantly, Michelle Muscat’s real concern should have been the overly close fraternal...

Not all the media treated Labour and the Muscats unfairly;...

Is NATO still relevant? Only if it comes into the 21st century

Matthew Bugeja

NATO is still relevant, but only if it redefines itself for 21st century...

NATO is still relevant, but only if it redefines itself for...

Perceptions, urban myths and public sympathy

Josanne Cassar

In the weird chaotic atmosphere we have been experiencing, passions are running...

In the weird chaotic atmosphere we have been experiencing,...

Easier to throw eggs than to run a country

Raphael Vassallo

Makes you wonder what these people really want, at the end of the day. So far,...

Makes you wonder what these people really want, at the end...

Raphael Vassallo

All this, at a time when there appears to be no viable Opposition, either. So if certain extremists (and I do not use that word lightly) get their way, we...

All this, at a time when there appears to be no viable...

Michael Falzon

Whether the Prime Minister was conscious of what was going on in the office he headed or not, Joseph Muscat is in a fix. He is – at least – either...

Whether the Prime Minister was conscious of what was going...