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Was, is and shall remain in favour of Maltese workers

and against Malta's membership of the European Union

WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

Neither the membership in the European Union nor the entry of the euro are going to help us escape the economic recession that is going to make us lose many jobs and causes us more unemployment.

The EU is not going to help neither to save jobs nor to create alternative jobs for the workers that will be discharged.

It is useless that the Government is following closely what is happening in the employment sector.

What is required is that the Government provides temporary employment until the economic emergency passes and the private sector would be in a position to employ them.

This is the policy that our country needs during these times notwithstanding that it is not a policy that the EU approves.

More so, the European policy leads us to destroy jobs,

* as the Government has done in the case of the Shipyard where,

* to pacify the EU,

* destroyed 1,700 jobs and

* made our country lose millions from foreign clients that used to repair their ships in our Shipyard.

* The same happened in the case of the Sea Malta company which,

* according to the EU policy the Maltese Government had to privatize it.

* This caused the loss of the jobs of Maltese sailors and

* denied our country of the income that the national company used to acquire from the transport or merchandize from and to Malta.

The EU policy of the freedom of movement of workers is the cause of great trouble in the Union countries, which are already suffering greatly with the unemployment of millions of workers.

These days

* thousands of workers in England are striking

* as a protest against the giving of a contract for the building of an oil refinery

* to an Italian company that is employing Italian workers

* with inferior wages and working conditions

* to those of the English workers.

The EU is unjust with the workers of the countries that it makes them lose their jobs by giving the right to foreign workers to be brought into the country and take the work of local workers.

More and more is this a social injustice because the European Court decided that according to the EU law,

* the trade unions of the country do not have a right to organize industrial actions

* to protect the local workers

* against the employment of foreign workers

* with wages and working conditions

* that are less then those normally applicable in the country they are brought to work in.

It is not right that the EU insists that big work contracts must be open to the contractors of all the EU countries, instead of being reserved for local contractors that have the means to execute them and there are in the country unemployed  workers that are capable of doing the works required by the contracts.

When a contract is given to foreigners,

* the profit from it goes outside the country, and

* if foreign workers are brought in to do the contract work,

* the greater part of the wages goes out of the country to the families of the foreign workers.

In this way,

* while the country would be spending the money for the contract,

* the greater part of the money will be lost to the economy of the country

* because it ends up in the pockets of the foreigners and

* goes out of the country.

All this shows that neither economically nor socially should a country implement the European policy of the free movement of workers and services, when in the country there are unemployed workers and when the economy of the country needs help and not loss of money that go outside the country.

This applies strongly in the case of our country and especially at the troubles times we are passing through.

 
In the national interest we should put aside the EU regulations and ensure that everything that could be manufactured in Malta

* will not be bought from outside, and          

* all that can be done with Maltese workers

* will not be done with foreign workers.         

* It is a social sacrilege that while we kept hundreds of foreign workers working at the Shipyard,

* we terminated the employment of hundreds of Maltese workers that have worked for years at the Shipyard.

This is what the EU knows how to do best – make the Maltese workers lose their bread and crucify their families.

The financial and economic crisis uncovered how the financial and economic policies of the European Union are weak, if not also bad.

The free market regulations of the Union were useless to protect the banks from the threat of bankruptcy and to ensure that the Union big companies do not collapse.

The big EU market did not escape from the recession and neither did the entry of the euro currency serve any useful purpose.

Without wanting, the EU had to accept that the governments of the member countries hit by the crisis take all those measures that they felt the need for without obeying the rules and without following the European policy.

Therefore, against the EU rules, the governments decided to give financial help to the companies that were facing loss of sales of their products.

The EU could not stop them from doing so, notwithstanding that this goes against the competition regulations and gives the companies aided an advantage over their competitors. 

Last week, the European Commission admitted that it was forced to loosen its regulations and give its consent so that the governments take aid measures as required by the particular circumstances of their companies, and this without the governments bringing the approval of the Commission for the measures.

Among the measures that were taken by the governments for the recession and economic crisis, there is that the State gives financial aid to Banks and companies without which they could not operate.

Thus the EU accepted the principle of state aid, when previously it did not admit it.

This means that when the national interest demands that such aid be given, this should not be refused by the EU because it is against the competition rules.

The national interests are superior to the rules of competition, not as the EU preaches that the market rules and free competition are sacred.

During these times the people understand that it is totally mistaken what the EU says against the State interfering in the financial sector and the economic sector.

It is only the State that can ensure that the banks do not go bankrupt and that companies continue to operate and that commerce can continue.

Then the interference by the State is a positive factor, not negative.

The private banks and privatized companies need the interference by the State, otherwise they crumble.

The interference of the State strengthens them, not hinders them.

This is the great lesson that we took from today’s crisis and recession.

We are in the middle of winter and notwithstanding the heavy seas and storms, already hundreds of illegal immigrants have come to our country during the first weeks of the year.

We can predict

* that in spring and in summer,

* with good weather and calm seas,

* this year thousands of illegal immigrants are going to come

* if we do not stop them from coming.

* They will add to the thousands of illegal immigrants that are already here

* to increase the crisis that we have where to keep them and

* how we are going to control them.

During the last few weeks a number of illegal immigrants in the closed detention centres,

* more than once

* have rioted and

* held protests because they are being held closed for too long and

* for not being granted refugee status.

A great number of police and soldiers had to be called to subdue them.

In the coming months we expect more riots and protests from the immigrants once their number increased and the crowding in the centres worsens the conditions in which they are kept.

We are afraid that later on

* the trouble is going to increase for the police and the soldiers that take care of the immigrants,

* as well as an increase in the cases where the immigrants will be involved in serious incidents with Maltese civilians.

The great number of illegal immigrants in our country

* is creating us problems of security and

* social problems,

* as well as a financial burden and

* a burden on the health services, and

* is making a bad name for Malta with foreign organizations

* that accuse us of inhuman treatment and breach of human rights.

We have seen this during the visit by a United Nations official last week, where they harshly condemned us for the manner of how we treat the illegal immigrants.

We are sorry to say that we are not doing what we need to do to solve this illegal immigrants’ crisis in our country.

We need to close the doors totally and

* not allow the illegal immigrants to remain in our country,

* by sending them back to their own countries without any exception.

Our country cannot bear to accept immigrants from wherever they come.

We should not submit to what the European Union wants from us with respect to the illegal immigrants.

It does not want us to send them back to their own countries and neither does it want us to allow them to go to its countries where they want to go.

It wants us to keep them in our country and integrate them with us and is giving us funds to do so.

Thus it is increasing our crisis that we have with the illegal immigrants.

The EU is to blame for the illegal immigrants’ crisis that we have,

* because it forced the Maltese government

* when it was negotiating the membership agreement of our country

* to repeal all the reservations that the Maltese Government had made

* when it had signed the Refugee Convention in 1971.

The Maltese Government had made all those reservations so that the illegal immigrants would not have a right to come to our country and demand that we keep them or as refugees or to give them humanitarian protection and they remain in our country just the same.

To become members in 2003,

* the Maltese Government went against the national interests of our people and

* submitted to treat the illegal immigrants as the European Union wants.

If our people want to seriously stop the illegal immigrants from remaining in our country

* they should ignore the policy and

* directives of the EU about legal immigration, and

* forget Frontex,

* the burden sharing, and

* the integration of the immigrants into Maltese society,

* and adopt a policy that does not allow the illegal immigrants to remain in our country.

We believe that the vast majority of the people are in favour of this policy which really protects the national interests.

Thursday 5 February 2009.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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