US Supreme Court Allows Roving Immigration Patrols, For Now – What It Means for Malta’s Own Border Battles By Hot Malta Correspondent Valletta – While American headlines scream about “roving patrols” and “stop-and-search squads” on Arizona highways, the ripple has already reached our limestone shores. On Monday the US Supreme Court lifted an injunction that…
From the balconies of Valletta’s Upper Barrakka Gardens, where French tourists often pose for selfies against the azure sweep of the Grand Harbour, news of Paris’s political earthquake landed with unexpected resonance. On Tuesday, French Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne was toppled by a no-confidence vote in the Assemblée Nationale—only the second time since 1962 that…
PN leadership vote stands, commission rules, as Delia’s last-ditch letter fizzles Ħamrun’s narrow side-streets were buzzing yesterday afternoon, not with the usual clatter of pastizzi trays and football talk, but with the latest twist in the Nationalist Party’s marathon leadership saga. After a week of claim and counter-claim, the party’s electoral commission has declared that…
Delia campaign questions eligibility of more than 100 PN leadership voters In a move that is already being dubbed “the carnival before the storm”, the campaign team backing veteran Nationalist Party stalwart Adrian Delia has formally challenged the voting eligibility of more than 100 delegates due to cast ballots in the upcoming PN leadership election….
From the honey-coloured bastions of Valletta to the narrow, sun-bleached alleys of Mdina, talk of a “special tribunal for Ukraine” is no longer a distant diplomatic echo. Over cups of strong Maltese tea at Café Cordina and on the shaded benches of Upper Barrakka Gardens, islanders are weighing the implications of a proposed international court…
Valletta cafés were buzzing this morning as news broke that France’s parliament is expected to topple Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne in a no-confidence vote later today. For Maltese sipping their pastizzi and kafè lattes along Republic Street, the unfolding drama in Paris feels both distant and oddly familiar—another European capital wrestling with the same question…
Valletta’s balmy spring evenings usually echo with chatter about Eurovision odds or the price of pastizzi, but this week the courtyard talk at Café Cordina has taken a sharper turn. Over tiny glasses of Kinnie and shared plates of ġbejniet, Maltese citizens, diplomats and students are dissecting Israel’s blunt warning that any European recognition of…
PN leadership election result a sign of party chaos – Abela Hot Malta, Valletta Prime Minister Robert Abela did not mince words as he stepped off the Auberge de Castille’s sweeping staircase Monday evening, minutes after Bernard Grech scraped through a confidence vote that keeps him at the helm of the Nationalist Party. “What we…
Watch: ‘Have faith, we can win’, Borg tells supporters in first speech Valletta’s iconic Triton Fountain was bathed in red and white last night as hundreds gathered to hear the first major address from newly-crowned Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech Borg. In a speech that lasted just under 25 minutes, Borg leaned into Maltese folklore,…
**Alex Borg pledges unity and renewal in first interview as PN leader** In a candid late-night chat at the party’s Pietà headquarters, newly-elected Nationalist Party leader Alex Borg told *Hot Malta* that his first mission is to “bring the PN back to the people’s kitchen tables” after a decade of electoral defeats and internal rifts….
Valletta’s sun-drenched Upper Barrakka Gardens buzzed with handshakes, selfies and the unmistakable scent of pastizzi yesterday afternoon as Alex Borg was officially congratulated on his razor-thin victory to lead the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry. In a scene that felt part political rally, part village festa, party leaders, seasoned lobbyists and family friends…
Adrian Delia congratulates Alex Borg on leadership win, thanks supporters: A new chapter for Malta’s Nationalist Party unfolds under Gozitan helm By a show-of-hands vote that felt more village festa than party convention, Alex Borg clinched the leadership of the Nationalist Party (PN) yesterday evening at the party’s Ħamrun headquarters, bringing to a close one…
