When we decided to change the logo of SDM (the Christian Democrat Student organisation) in the mid-1990s we had decided to include a motto within a design that was meant to portray citizen participation and inclusion. The slogan, taken from Caldera’s tome describing the Christian...

There is a symbolical effervescence that pervades anyone with the right frame of mind as he walks around great cities such as Rome or Washington D.C. The former is richly endowed with a magnificent scattering of monuments built to last centuries and that eagerly proclaim the magnificence of a...

My last visit to Vilnius was in 2002. I tend to remember the date of that visit mainly because of the inbuilt “football clock” – there was the Korea & Japan World Cup at the time. That last visit was also for a conference. I was a junior lawyer on the Maltese...

All set for the second day at the Closing Conference of the European Year of the Citizens. It’s been a rollercoaster of two days between catching up with what went on in a year of formal and surgical interventions by the powers that be into trying to provoke a demos into life and on the...

The whole Gaia affair has been swept away as quickly as befits the fickle news items of this land. The Queen handed out some honours today and (Sir) Bradley Wiggins was one of the persons on the honours list. Wiggins was a champion cyclist – seven times Olympic medallist – and was...