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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

The European Union ordered that in 2011 the Maltese and Gozitan people pay it €68,000,000

€186,000 daily stolen from your childrens mouths

In an interview three weeks ago to a local newspaper, the Minister responsible for the Shipyard admitted that the Restructuring Plan for the Malt Shipyard that the European Union drafted in 2002 was not going to achieve its aims.

* "We did not arrive with the methods we used lately, notwithstanding the reform we carried out five years ago”.

The Minister did not ask whether what he called “reform” of five years ago was really a reform, that is make it better, or whether it was in fact no reform at all, because it turned for the worse.

* as well as a reduction in the volume of work that the Shipyard was allowed to do,

* with the lack of capital investment in the modernization of plant and machinery,

* but weakened it and made it more difficult for it to acquire economic viability,

What the Minister did not say was said by Engineer Lawrence Ciantar, in the newspaper “Il-Ġens Illum” of 19 January this year, as we say it, on the Restructuring Plan that the European Union agreed about it with the Maltese Government.

It was a defective plan, as time has shown us, and which could not lead the Shipyard to stand on its own in seven years, without requiring a little help, for a little more time.

The Minister responsible for the Shipyard will cause great damage to our country

* but to establish in an impartial and genuine manner the real reasons for the bad situation of the Shipyard today.

The Maltese Government should remind the European Union that in the agreement that it made with it about the Shipyard and which is found in the Malta Membership Treaty in the Union, there is provided:

“That if the viability of the shipyards cannot be achieved due to exceptional circumstances that were not foreseen when the restructuring plan was drafted, the Commission may revise the stipulated conditions” (in the plan) “according to a procedure that is provided for in Article 88(1) of the European Economic Community Treaty”.

The great loss from the Fairmount contract is exceptional and was not foreseen that it will happen, when the shipyards restructuring plan was drafted.

Therefore there is occasion for the European Commission to review the plan conditions.

The Minister responsible for the Shipyard, who has a duty to do everything possible to protect it, will be shirking his duty to the country if he does not insist on the case with the European Commission to review the conditions of the restructuring plan.

In the mentioned interview of 13 May, the Minister responsible for the Shipyard also said that:

* "On the Shipyard, I say that it has an assured future, but I seriously doubt its present form. To have a shipyard in Malta is important. There are opportunities for the Shipyard and many are the private investors who are interested in it”.

If there is the intention to hold negotiations with private investors to take the Shipyard, the Minister will do wrongly to press its bad financial situation when he has a duty to get from those who want it the best price and the best conditions in the national interest.

If the Shipyard has an assured future, as was said by the Minister, the Minister will be shirking his duty not to assure the 1,700 Shipyard employees that their employment is not threatened.

The country needs the Shipyard for the trades it promotes. Without the Shipyard workers trades the country will be much poorer than any amount of aid that it will have to pay for these trades not to die away.

The damage of the European Union fiscal policy

against the high VAT tax on fuel uncover the falsity of the Union propagandists who say that the Union has got nothing to do with the taxes that there are in the Union countries.

Because the truth is that the European Union has the harshest policy of taxation that the Union countries have to forcefully adopt even if this is damaging to the economy or their social life.

The VAT imposed by the European Union is socially unjust and economically damaging.

It is the most efficient for the governments to get the greatest amount of tax from the consumer citizens.

The more the prices increase the more the governments get from VAT, and in this manner VAT continues to increase prices more.

They are in protest blocking the roads of cities and ports of many Union countries.

Also in Malta, the GRTU and the Chamber of Enterprises are telling the Government to lower the levies or VAT on fuel because the price of fuel is going to increase the expenses of those who use it and they will have to increase the prices of their products or their services.

But the European Union does not care that the fishermen and truck drivers are suffering great damage, and neither does it care about the increase in prices and the cost of living of tie citizens consumers of the Union countries.

The Commissioner for Fisheries, Joe Borg, has just attacked those who are demanding a reduction in VAT or the granting of subsidies for fishermen because he said that these measures do not heal the problem in the fishing sector, and that these may only be healed by carrying out the required restructuring for the fishing industry.

This means the reduction of fishermen and the reduction of the amount of fishing that is carried out.

The same line was taken by the European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Joaquin Almunia, who declared that the Ministers for Finance of the European Union are not going to accept to reduce levies and VAT on oil products notwithstanding all the blockades and protests that are being made in many Union countries.

On the price of fuel, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy appears to insist more to restrain the levies and VAT on oil products by reducing their rates, at least there will be a limit that is paid (capping).

This can be made by the amount of levies and taxes not being worked out as a percentage on the price in a manner that when the price doubles the amount of levies and taxes doubles although the rates remain the same.

The French proposal is in the sense that the amount of levy and tax should remain the same however much the price increases, so that the increase in price does not also result in an increase in the amount of levy and VAT.

The bad effects of the European Union fiscal policy are not only felt with respect to oil products. They also hit hard the family and the quality of life in society.

These last few days the European Bishops requested the European Commission to reduce the VAT rates on products and services that are connected with the family.

They insisted on the importance of lightening the burden of VAT on families with children so that this will be an incentive for the parents to increase the family especially when in the European Union countries there is a crisis of a lack of births that is reducing the population of many Union countries.

All these things witness that the European Union fiscal policy is mistaken and needs to be changed forthwith.

Germany warns the European Union

The Germans are objecting to the European Union that wants them to repeal a law that they have that protects the national enterprise Volkswagen from being taken by foreigners. According to the German law the control of the majority of shares of the Volkswagen Company cannot pass into foreigners’ hands.

But the European Commissioner responsible for the Union internal market, Charlie McCreevy, is insisting that the German law breaches the principle of the European Union of the free movement of capital in all the Union countries and the free market rules.

Last week, the German Minister for Justice, Brigitte Zypnes, spoke at a meeting for about 1,000 Volkswagen company workers and warned the EuropeanUnion that it will be greatly mistaken if it continues to insist that Germany repeals the law that assures that this national enterprise remains in the German peoples hands.

Is the Maltese Government ready to do the same in the Shipyard case and warn the European Union that it will be greatly mistaken if it pretends that it shall not be given aid to continue to operate?

If yes, help CNI in its work so that the majority of the people would want to get rid of European Union rule.

Revision of the Shipyard restructuring plan