Government’s chief ‘golden visa’ salesman sets up shop one month after leaving office
The man who for three years led the government’s
The Shift Team
March 12, 2022
Government silent on China’s project in Gozo
As both local and Chinese dailies were flooded with
Julian Delia
January 13, 2022
24 journalists killed, 293 journalists currently in prison in 2021 – CPJ
In its annual prison census, the Committee to Protect
The Shift Team
December 9, 2021
Crisis looming as government’s electricity tariffs lock coming to an end
Energy Minister Miriam Dalli is refusing to say whether
The Shift Team
November 16, 2021
One regime, many scandals
Last week, Malta’s President George Vella and Foreign Minister
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
October 8, 2021
UK government to investigate over 6,000 ‘golden visas’ over threats to national security
The British government has announced the review of more
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
July 14, 2021
Standing up for human rights, only when it suits us
China’s brutal dictatorship is without doubt one of the
Blanche Gatt
July 10, 2021
Passport Papers: Henley and Partners’ leaked documents show most applicants are from countries where dual citizenship is not permitted
Most applicants for Malta’s cash-for-passports programme who applied for
The Shift Team
April 22, 2021
Montenegro risks losing a slice of its territory on Chinese ‘initiative’ Malta also joined
Following a string of scandals in Montenegro, linked to
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
April 15, 2021
The Montenegro deal’s fictitious numbers
A new letter seen by The Shift reveals exactly
Jovo Martinovic
February 13, 2021
Greeks bearing gifts
In the epic poem ‘Aeneid’, the Roman poet Virgil
Kevin Cassar
January 6, 2021
Recall from China was a ‘coincidence’, new ambassador insists
The newly appointed non-resident Ambassador to Qatar, Joseph Pirotta,
The Shift Team
October 12, 2020
Retired diplomat recalled over visas scandal now made ambassador
Senior members of Malta’s diplomatic corps are stunned at
The Shift Team
October 7, 2020
Malta among countries that received faulty COVID-19 masks from China
Malta was one of the countries receiving “fake and
The Shift Team
August 6, 2020
Montenegro and the unspoken threat
There was public outrage when the finance minister, Edward
Ranier Fsadni
July 5, 2020
Fact-Check: Enemalta’s defence of Konrad Mizzi on Mozura wind farm
Three months ago, The Shift ran the first instalment
The Shift Team
June 30, 2020
Action demanded on corrupt Montenegro deal
The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has reiterated its call
Caroline Muscat
June 20, 2020
Size of Chinese embassy doubles since initial plans
The size and safety of a Chinese embassy, planned
Joanna Demarco
April 27, 2020
Konrad Mizzi’s trips to Montenegro and the birth of a dirty energy deal
Former Energy Minister Konrad Mizzi visited Montenegro no less
Caroline Muscat
April 25, 2020
China lied and people died
China forgot to count and tell the world about
Caroline Muscat
April 17, 2020
Prime Minister mum on investigating corruption in Mizzi’s Montenegro deal
The Office of Prime Minister Robert Abela has remained
Caroline Muscat
April 5, 2020
From China, with love…
There seems to be a direct correlation between freer
The Shift Team
April 3, 2020
Reporters Without Borders to track coronavirus disinformation
International press freedom NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) launched
Joanna Demarco
March 31, 2020
Freedom Day: what freedom?
Forty-one years ago today, the British Navy withdrew from
The Shift Team
March 31, 2020
Made in China? Perhaps not…
Just as countries around the world are rejecting and
March 30, 2020
Disinformation: consolation and catastrophe during coronavirus
As COVID-19 headlines continue to dominate news cycles, pro-Kremlin
Elizabeth De Gaetano
March 30, 2020
The murky energy project of Joseph Muscat and Konrad Mizzi in Montenegro
The Mozura wind farm project was haunted by allegations
Jovo Martinovic
March 22, 2020
Chinese citizen journalist who shot viral video of coronavirus corpses ‘missing’
The citizen journalist who shattered the carefully crafted image
February 18, 2020
The world remembers Tiananmen Square
Thirty years ago today, the Chinese government ordered soldiers
Alice Elizabeth Taylor
June 4, 2019
Malta’s ally: Report on censorship, control by China beyond its borders
China is going to great lengths to create a
The Shift Team
March 25, 2019

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