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Manoeuvres
for the Euro not to appear to have raised prices
By
the Campaign for National
Independence CNI
We had warned you about what will happen when the Euro becomes our country’s official currency on 1 January 2008, so as to appear that there is no price increases because of the introduction of the Euro.
We
had warned you both on this page as well as on the CNI
programmes on Smash TV, that there will be some who will increase prices during
this year so that when the Euro is introduced next January, they will not have
to increase prices because they would have already increased them during this
year, and so the European Union propagandists would appear to have been right to
say that the Euro was not going to increase prices.
Let us mention one example that we ourselves have experienced this increase now because of the introduction of the Euro next year.
In a cafeteria and restaurant in Valletta, the prices of various dishes and snacks were only Lm1.
From
the beginning of July when therefore the prices had to be shown in Maltese Liri
as well as in Euros, these prices were changed to Lm1.10 – an increase of ten
percent (10%).
If the prices had not been increased, the prices of these dishes and snacks
would have been two Euros and 33 cents – (Lm1).
But
with the increase of 10 (Malta) cents, the price in Euros became rounded up to
two Euros and 50 cents (strictly two Euros and 55 cents).
We have heard and read other more grave examples than this.
We had already noted what had been said by a trade union secretary about the unchecked increase in the cost of certain medicines that had increased by 40 percent (40%) in a short period of five weeks.
It
is certain that they will not need to increase the price with the introduction
of the Euro!
However, it is good to know about the manoeuvres that are being made so that during the first few months following the introduction of the Euro, the prices and tariffs of certain professionals such as doctors and advocates, would not be increased after 1 January 2008.
However,
this will be only for the first few months – naturally until the election has
passed!
It has been months since we have uncovered how the committee in charge of the
introduction of the Euro was meeting secretly with the Chamber of Advocates to
encourage advocates not to increase their tariffs during next January.
We
have now read in a daily newspaper, which is a number one prop up of the
European Union, that the Prime Minister (probably with the help of the
Parliamentary Secretary for Finance) was holding meetings in the quietness of
the Inquisitors Palace in Girgenti, “to persuade leading businessmen in our
country to bind themselves not to increase prices for a certain period of
time”.
We think that we have got to know how long is this period of time from what we
have read in the newspaper Euro Times that is issued once a month.
We have read that the Island Hotel Group had decided not to increase prices in their hotels up to April 2008.
We are led to understand that this date is the date that the Prime Minister is pleading with them so that they will not increase the prices in their establishments up to that date.
It
well appears that it is certain that the election will not be held later than
next April.
Naturally, those businessmen who want to help the Government are increasing their prices now so as not to increase them after the introduction of the Euro.
If they are going to wait until April 2008, they will wait until the election has passed.
Then they will increase prices as much as they want.
They
would have helped the Government in its electoral campaign by the prices not
having “increased” by the introduction of the Euro.
It is true that as they say, these people can also pass a devil through the eye of a needle!
The loss of employment is the fault of membership in the EU
In
the case of illegal immigrants, as in other cases, the real situation is being
hidden from the public.
According to a Parliamentary Question answer, from 2002 till now, 6,625 illegal
immigrants have left the detention centres that we have in our country.
Professur Henry Frendo, around a month ago, had written that since a few
Eritrean illegal immigrants had been sent back years ago, no illegal immigrants
had been sent back to their country from Malta.
Therefore, the number of illegal immigrants in our country is many thousands,
much more than those 3,000 that Minister Cristina mentioned to the EU Observer
correspondent.
According
to another Parliamentary Question, every illegal immigrant is costing the
Maltese Treasury around Lm13 daily, that amounts to Lm4,745 each year.
Even if we take that there are only 3,000 illegal immigrants mentioned to the EU
Observer correspondent, their expense for the Maltese Treasury (from the
peoples’ taxes) amounts to Lm14,235,000 each year.
(If
there a thousand more than the mentioned 3,000, the expense increases by
Lm4,745,000 each year).
If
our country will not be in the European Union, there will be no incentives for
the illegal immigrants to come to Malta and at the same time, we will not be
bound by the Union regulations that bind us to keep in our country the illegal
immigrants that survive the trip or come to our country.
According to another Parliamentary Question, applications by illegal immigrants
that are in our country to be allowed to also bring their families in our
country are being considered and accepted.
This is being carried out according the EU directives.
May of the illegal immigrants in our country are being given work instead of Maltese workers.
With the question of the illegal immigrants that are being given work in our country, we have to also consider the question of foreign workers from the EU that are doing to work in our country instead of Maltese workers.
According to an answer to a Parliamentary Question, since becoming members in the EU, 5,000 foreign workers came to work in Malta.
These like the illegal immigrants are taking the bread of Maltese workers.
And
in both cases, it is the fault of our membership in the EU.
With membership in the Union, the Maltese workers have lost twice over.
They have lost employment with the closure of factories and they have lost employment which was taken by foreign workers of the Union and illegal immigrants.
Clear
policy about illegal immigration
Regarding illegal immigration, the EU does not have a clear policy which safeguards the dignity of immigrants.
In the fight against illegal immigration the result will be the same as has happened in the fight against drugs.
It will be lost as the fight against drugs has been lost.
This
is because the EU did not attack the source of the two cases.
In the case of drugs, to win the fight, we have to first eradicate the traffickers by preventing the drugs business from remaining a great source of monetary gain.
The
governments have to take charge of drugs not try to prohibit them.
The same thing has to be made in the case of illegal immigration.
Because the
waves of illegal immigrants are being raised by criminal businessmen who provide
sea craft and sell passage to thousands that are ready to pay their fortune to
go to live and work in European countries.
If it becomes a rule that
anyone who is found to be illegally in a country shall always be sent back from
whence he came, no one will be ready to pay a large amount of money uselessly,
because he would be certain that he will be sent back.
Thus
the criminal businessmen’s illegal immigrants business will be eliminated.
Therefore
in the fight against illegal imigration there is a need to impliment a policy
that ensures that every illegal immigrant will not be kept in the country and
will be sent back whatever his circumstances will be.
A great mistake is being made in the mixing of the question of illegal
immigration with refugees, who should be given a different and separate
treatment from each other
It will always remain our duty to do all we can to save those in danger of
drowning, feed then, care for them and cloth them.
But following this, if they are illegal immigrants, return them from whence they came.
Free
competition should be subdued
While
Maltese politicians are ready to submit to the European Union policy on free
trade even when this is not for the good of our country, the new French
President, Nicolas Sarkozy, is not ready to let France submit to this, if it is
not in its interests.
In a speech a little while ago during the Le Bourget air show, Sarkozy declared
that he does not subscribe to the ideology that makes free competition an
absolute trade principle.
Sarkozy reiterated that a country must ensure that it seeks reciprocity in trade
and if a foreign country wants the French market to be open to its products, the
foreign country must see to it that its market will similarly be opened to
French products.
The
French President said that France removes duty from French products.
What Sarkozy wants is similar to what Mintoff wanted for Malta 20 years ago –
reciprocity in trade, that is, that we buy from France if France buys from
us.
The condition of reciprocity in trade does not agree with the principle of free trade that the European Union wants between its member countries.
This
is why the Union imposed on our country to remove all protection measures
(duties, tariffs, quotas) on importation from other Union countries and without
registering any increase in our exports, greatly increased importation.
They used to tell us that we shall benefit if we are part of the great Union market because we will increase our sales.
Now we have ended up by not acquiring anything from the great Union market and lost a sizeable part of our market in favour of increased importation of foreign products.
Union membership has not been in our interest.
It has also not been in our interest
not only in trade, but neither in the industry sector.
Because the industrial policy of the European Union was used to dismantle many
factories in our country.
Now the French President has also become aware that the industrial policy of the Union is damaging to the industry of the Union countries.
During a meeting a few days ago about the company that manufactures the Airbus in Toulouse, Sarkozy insisted that the European Union should review its industrial policy so as to be able to compete with the United States and Chinese industries.
He said that free competition should be implemented within a policy framework that increases the industrial sector, not set it back.
France, notwithstanding that the European Union does not accept that the State
gives aid to commercial companies is not ready to stop from helping as much as
is needed big industries, such as that generating electricity, the production of
trains and the production of aircraft and is also not ready to hand them over
totally to the private sector.
Maltese
politicians should learn from the French.
Thursday 2 August 2007.
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