Malta's direction

Recently politicalcompass.org added Malta to their EU 2008 chart, after yours truly sent them an e-mail asking why Malta had been omitted.

Malta's placing on the political spectrum came to no surprise, considering the Nationalist government has consistently promoted centre-right moderately neoliberal economic policies, more so in the last couple of legislatures.

Its penchant unwillingness to introduce civil rights such as divorce, same-sex civil partnerships and cohabitation rights, and its consequent implicit anti-secularist stance, secure its place in the authoritarian right section of the chart.

One wonders whether Malta will move further to the right and, most importantly, further down, closer to countries like Germany and Belgium, in the near future.

The website, which I recommend to anybody even mildly interested in politics, also includes a test and a detailed analysis of the political compass.