Valletta wakes up to a Mediterranean thunder-clap this morning: Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who once shook hands with every EU leader inside Fort St Angelo and promised Malta a “new era of Franco-Maltese solidarity”, is now Prisoner Sarkozy, sentenced to five years—three of them behind bars—for corruption and influence-peddling over a coveted Monaco judgeship. In…
Watch live: Von der Leyen gives her 2025 State of the Union speech – why every Maltese living-room is tuned in tonight By 8 p.m. the village band clubs have gone quiet, the festa fireworks are on pause, and even the usually boisterous ħobż-bi-żejt debate at the corner kazin has been suspended. Instead, televisions from…
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…
