The critics of the membership agreement accuse the Maltese Government that it is deceiving the Maltese entrepreneurs who work for the local market, because it is not telling them that if Malta becomes a Union member, the Government will not be able to continue giving them aid that it is able to give them now.

The Maltese Government accepted what the European Union wants that Malta allows entry without any hindrance and without any customs duties or levy, products coming from the European Union.

The products imported in Malta are going to be sold instead or products produced in Malta by Maltese workers who work with local entrepreneurs.

Lower sales of products produced in Malta means less workers working in Malta.

It also means that Maltese entrepreneurs close down their factories and workshops and instead import the products from the European Union.

Therefore the critics insist that the European Union policy favours its factories, to the detriment of the factories and workshops in Malta.

The propagandists of the membership agreement boast that with the European Union policy, the consumers are going to benefit because the prices will drop with the removal of duties and levies.

But the critics of the accession agreement answer that the prices of products that we import from countries outside the Union, are going to be increased with duties that the union forces us to make to protect the Union products.

The critics of the membership agreement insist that many products that we import from the Union are also going to increase their price because the Union presently subsidizes them if they are sold to a country outside the Union, as is Malta presently, but if Malta becomes a member, the union will not continue to subsidize them and therefore the prices will be higher.

The critics of the agreement continue to add that the excuse that is brought by the propagandists of the accession agreement that the consumer benefits with a decrease in prices, is empty because the Union imposed that the Government taxes with VAT both food products as well as medicines.

The VAT on every object, as is wanted by the European Union, is going to increase the prices that the Maltese consumers are going to have to pay.

The propagandists of the membership agreement say that is not going to have bad effects on social services in our country.

But the critics insist that the Maltese government is going to be forced by the European Union to reduce the social services and benefits to reduce the Government expense and reduce the budget deficit.

The European Union puts pressure on the governments of the member countries to reduce their expenditure.

The governments of the member countries seek to reduce their expenditure by reducing the social services and benefits.

Thus, although the European Union does not dictate the social policy of the member countries, just the same it interferes in their social sector, by insisting with them to reduce their social services and benefits expenditure

The same thing applies for pensions.

The Propagandists of the membership agreement say that the European Union does not interfere in the pensions that are paid in the member countries.

But the European Union critics insist that the Union puts great pressure on the member countries to reduce the pensions’ burden on the expenditure of the governments of the member countries.

Although the European Union has still not made a regulation on how much should the retirement age be for a pension, the European Union is recommending that this should be increased to 65 years.

The propagandists of the membership agreement say that the Maltese soldiers that are going into the European army are going to be volunteers and are not going to participate in fighting.

But the critics of the membership agreement do not agree with this.

The critics remind us that the Maltese Government bound itself that Maltese soldiers that go in the European army are going to form part of the contingent of Italian soldiers.

This would mean that they will be under Italian officers and go wherever the Italian contingent goes and do what the Italian contingent is ordered to do.

The critics also remind us that the soldiers that are being engaged now in the Maltese army are being asked to sign that they will be ready to serve outside Malta if they are ordered to do so.

The critics say that this binding that the new soldiers are being asked to sign show that if there are no voluntary soldiers, soldiers who are not volunteers will be ordered to go and serve out of Malta in the European army.

The critics of the membership agreement object that the European Union forced the Maltese Government to breach the electoral promise that it had made prior to the last election to the hunters and trappers, that it will reduce nothing from what they had previously and that they will be consulted all the time on the negotiations that it will do with the European Union on hunting and trapping in Malta.

The leaders of the hunters and trappers accuse the Nationalist Government that it did not keep its promise to them and did not consult them in everything and neither left things as they are today.

The hunters and trappers accuse the Maltese Government that with the agreement that it has made with the European Union hunting and trapping in our country will in time be destroyed.

The hunters and trappers complain that the government did not stand up against the European Union and did not tell it that it is much better that the Maltese youths continue being absorbed in hunting and trapping, rather than being caught in vices, among them drugs.

The hunters and trappers also insist that the government did not show the European Union how they take good care of the countryside environment where they go hunting and trapping.

The propagandists of the membership agreement and also some Ministers are trying hard to deceive the port workers, by trying to tell them that the European Union directives are not going to cause them harm.

But the port workers understood well what the European Union directives mean to them that they are going destroy the system and rights that they had acquired with their fights along the years that they had made to acquire the dignity and rights that hey have today.

The liberalization of port works means for the port workers a loss in their income and the loss of the rights that they have.

It means that port work goes back to the time when the workers were not sure neither of their work and neither had the guarantee of a decent income and had to fight with the owners according to what was beneficial for the owners.

The port was a jungle, while today, port work is very ordered.

The European Union directives are going to play havoc with the order that there is in port work.

The propagandists of the membership agreement with the European Union like to say that on the basis of the Union many places of work and many factories are going to restructure themselves.

The critics of the agreement answer that these words hide the fact that with the European Union policy and regulations, many places of work and factories will have to reduce the number of workers and some of the factories and places of work will have to close down.

The critics say that the word restructuring hide the ugliness of the loss of employment from the workers and the failure of the enterprises from the owners.

According to the critics of the European Union policy, the market regulations do not consider the social need of work and employment, which are the foundations of human dignity.

The European Union adores the market more than human beings and because of this the excuse is brought up that with globalization, restructuring of the industry and employment must be made.

Te critics of the European Union policy and of the agreement that the Maltese Government made with it, insist that if our country allows the market regulations dictate what happens with work in our country and with employment in our country, we will end up with many more people unemployed and of youths who do not find work.

Restructuring would mean unemployment.

Monday, 3 March, 2003.

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