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 Objections to the political report on the EU Constitution

 

By Dr Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici

 

The report of the Honorable George Vella that makes a political evaluation of the new European Union Constitution is totally mistaken about Article 6 of that Constitution, where this Article states that the laws made by the Union are superior to, and prevail over the Constitution of a Union member country, like Malta.


In the political report it is stated that this is not a new principle for the European Union member countries. 

 

I am sorry to say that this is a gross mistake. 

 

That which Article 6 of the new European Union Constitution establishes is a new legal principle that is being given the strength of a constitutional legal principle, and is being imposed for the first time on the European Union member countries.


The political report states that the national courts of the European Union member states accepted what the Union Court of Justice decided in a number of cases, that is, that the laws that the Union makes are superior to, and prevail on the laws that the national Parliaments of the EU members make.

But the political report did not distinguish between laws made by the Parliament of a country and the Constitution of that country.

 

No national Court of a Union member country has accepted that a law made by the Union that did not comply with the Constitution of that country was superior to, and prevailed on the Constitution of that country.

Therefore the political report is technically mistaken. 

 

I should also say that it is politically mistaken on this point.

Because even if membership in the European Union implies that a law that the Union can make overcomes the Constitution of Malta, the Labour Party should never vote for this to occur, even if it has to submit to it because the majority had so voted.

The party will allow the implementation of the will of the majority, but this does not mean that it should vote as is done by the majority, if the party wants to respect the will of the minority that had voted for it, and if it wants to remain respected because it had remained steady in its will and principles.

 

The declaration on the neutrality of Malta

 

The political report is also mistaken about the Declaration on the Neutrality of Malta that the Government had made with the Membership Treaty of 16 April 2003, in Athens.


The new European Union Constitution renews that treaty, but leaves out this declaration on the neutrality of Malta, and the political report states that this obscene fact does not have and political or legal importance.

 

I think that the Labour supporters are sorry to read in the political report that the party is being encouraged to accept the new European Union treaty that renews that Membership Treaty of 2003 and leaves out the Declaration on the Neutrality of Malta that was attached with the original Treaty of 2003. 

 

Certainly politically it is not for Malta’s benefit to see the Declaration that it made in 2003 to protect its neutrality, be thrown away and deleted with the approval pf the 2005 new European Union Constitution.

The Labour supporters expect that the party should insist that the neutrality of Malta should be protected with a protocol that would binding and which would form part of the new European Union Constitution, and not that the declaration that there is today be thrown away and nothing is done to take its place. 

 

But the political report does not care about this.
 
Neither does the report care that whoever votes in favour of the new European Union Constitution will be voting for the agreement that the Nationalist Government made with the European Union, and which the General Conference of the Labour Party decided on 9 November 2003 that the party shall work to stop all its negative aspects, and see that the agreement with the European Union shall not be disadvantageous and damaging like that of 2003.
 
How can the Labour delegates vote in favour of that disadvantageous and damaging agreement to the Maltese people, and especially the workers?

 

Tuesday 5 April 2005.

 

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

 

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