INTERVIEW
The future of welfare: challenging or plain scary?

Charlot Zahra speaks to economist Joseph F.X. Zahra, the lead author of a Today Public Policy Institute report on the sustainability of the welfare system launched a few weeks ago >>

EDITORIAL
Gozo and the virtue of patience
Many Maltese are convinced that Gozitans take their time to move on with the times. For many years, this impression branded the sister island as being stuck in a time-warp, and to some extent, it contributed to a demand in tourism which kept booming until recent times. >>

OPINION
George M. Mangion
Fear not recession but dread the recovery
Yes we are living in uneasy times.
The latest Central Bank review announced a negative dip for two consecutive quarters which technically leads to a recession. Today, despite some signs of financial and economic improvement reported by Germany and France in the second quarter one recognises that Malta is late to enter in recession and hence it will take longer to exit. >>