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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
The Shipyard should continue to operate in the national interest
By
Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici,
It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union
See this European Parliament video that we can leave
In our national interest the shipyard should continue to
operate.
No regulation and no policy of the European Union should overcome our national interest.
That is why after December this year we have to ensure
that the Shipyard is not closed because that is what the Union wants.
After all why does the Union not want the Shipyard to continue to receive aid?
The reason is that the state should not aid a commercial enterprise.
And why does the Union not want a commercial enterprise to be granted aid?
The Union reason is that such aid to a commercial
enterprise would be damaging to competitor commercial enterprises and is against
free competition in trade.
Well according to the Union, aid given to the Maltese Shipyard is damaging to
competitor shipyards.
Who are the shipyard competitors to the Maltese Shipyard?
In shipbuilding all the shipyards in the world are competitors to our shipyard.
But in ship repair, the shipyards that are our competitors in the European Union are those in the Mediterrane of
* Greece,
* Italy,
* France,
* Spain and
* Portugal.
For the benefit of the shipyards in the European Union that build ships, and of those in the Mediterranean that repair ships, the Union bound Malta six years ago, that it it wanted to enter in the Union, it had to
* close the Marsa Shipyard,
* downscale the Bormla Shipyard,
* by reducing then number of workers to 1,410,
* limit the number of work for the two Shipyards to only two million man-hours every year,
* use not more than 10,000 tons of steel every year, and
* close fully Dock Number 1.
The
Union was not happy to impose these restrictions and limitations, but also
insisted that all aid be stopped after December 2008.
This all shows that the Union considers the amount of work made in the Malta
Shipyard according to the Restructuring Agreement is acceptable for the
competitors of the Malta Shipyard in the Union.
Now the granting of aid to the Malta Shipyard is not going to increase the
amount of work made by it more than that permitted in the agreement, and
therefore will not be damaging to the competitors of the Shipyard in the Union.
Once the amount of work that the Shipyard is permitted to do in a year,
according to the Restructuring Agreement imposed by the Union, it will not be
damaging to the free competitors in trade.
But this is not a principle that the Union applies in every sector.
It does not apply it in the agricultural sector where the Union gives great amounts of subsidies.
After all, the Union permits the state to grant huge amounts of aid to certain industries, such as that of aircraft and that of tourism.
In the case of tourism, for example, the subsidies granted
by the Government of a country helps tourism enterprises competitors in other
Union countries, apart from being against the principle of free trade
competition.
Many member countries in the European Union give huge amounts of aid to their
enterprises in the national interest.
We mention
* England,
* France and
* Italy, who all do so.
England even nationalized the financial commercial enterprise Northern Rock so as not to let it go bankrupt with the loss of many deposits.
The British Government gave not millions, but billions of pounds Sterling to do so.
France spends huge amounts to keep the national trains.
Italy also does so.
We find such examples in other Union countries.
We do we in Malta do not have the right to do the same and give aid as much as
is necessary to keep the Shipyard open and operating in the national
interest?
If the objection is that the Shipyard is today a
commercial enterprise the Government should nationalize the Shipyard and manage
it as it manages the Public Works Department.
The European Union should not object to this measure, once the Union is not spending any money for the Shipyard to continue to operate.
How the Maltese people spend their money should be decided
by the Maltese people, not by foreign Union bureaucrats.
They had promised the people that everything shall remain the same when we enter into the promised land of the European Union.
And five years ago the majority of the people believed them.
But many found that they had greatly deceived them.
Among those who were greatly deceived are the housewives,
who in a letter had been told that if we enter in the EU and levies are removed
on vegetables and other food products, the cost of living was going to decrease
by Lm1.27c every week.
And as all the housewives know, the opposite happened and the cost of living has
gone up like hell.
Also deceived were the farmers and herdsmen, who in writing black on white, were
promised that in case of strong importation that would put them at a
disadvantage for their products, the safeguard clause that had been agreed with
the EU would be used to protect them.
This safeguard clause has never been used, and thus the farmers and herdsmen have suffered huge losses compared to their prior income.
And not to drown totally, many millions of Ewros are being spent every year in subsidies from our money that we all pay through taxes.
But even these subsidies will have to end if we do not
show the European Union that we are not ready to allow the Maltese and Gozitan
farmers and herdsmen to be sacrificed at the sacrificial altar of the European
Union.
Also deceived were the factory and shipyards workers, when
they had been promised in writing that if we become members in the European
Union these enterprises shall not be closed down.
And after we became members in the EU, many factories were closed down and others are going to close, with the Minister himself betting money that the clothes manufacturing factories shall all close.
And he has already boasted that he has won the bet.
The Shipyard workers has today also became aware that their jobs are hanging by
a thread because the Shipyard will easily close down next year, if we are not
ready to tell the EU that the closure of the Shipyard will cause great damage to
Malta and that we shall not accept that this happens, even though there are some
who have lost hope of changing the EUs mind.
And
finally and perhaps the greatest deceit that was made was that of the hunters
and trappers, who were officially promised more than once and were given
guarantees that hunting and trapping shall continue to be practiced if we become
members in the EU.
Today,
the hunters and trappers, who prior to the 2003 Referendum and the General
Election did not believe their leaders are tasting the bitterness of the deceit
that they have suffered.
These sectors of our people are not going to forget who deceived them, and
neither are they going to forget that the leaders of the European Union, with
their presence in our country, and with the millions that were spent in
propaganda, were accomplices, or better still guilty, in the great deceit that
occurred five years ago.
They now have every reason not to believe those who at that time greatly deceived them.
They
can expect more deceit from them in future.
Whatever will be the result of the General Election, the fight for the independence of Malta from the European Union shall continue and increase.
Because the Maltese people have lost their sovereignty with membership in the Union and will only acquire it back by leaving the Union.
There
is no middle road for every Maltese citizen who treasures the independence and
freedom of his country.
Before
any partisan political beliefs, every Maltese citizen should believe that the
Maltese people have a sacred right to have their destiny in their own hands and
not be ruled by foreigners, neither by those of the European Union.
The independence of a people should not be sold at a price.
It is acquired with the highest price of blood shedding, of the great sacrifice of the people, and with the wisdom and judgment of the leaders.
It
is lost by the betrayal of promised millions with which a people are bought if
they are led by weak persons, not strong ones.
Our country had this misfortune and thus we have lost our Independence and Freedom.
Now we have to suffer the consequences until we succeed to redeem ourselves from the colonialism, this time of the European Union.
After the election, we want to begin a national movement for the independence of Malta.
The militants in the movement have to enter into every political party, into every trade union and every social organization to be the yeast for the shouting and yelling of the people for independence.
A majority has to be built in favour of independence such that the political parties cannot resist its pressure, so that when the people are asked if they want independence from the European Union, the masses will answer YES.
This
time YES
will be to leave, not become members, from the European Union.
There
is no doubt that the fight for independence is going to be very tough.
We will find against us those who are breastfeeding from the Union and do not care about their siblings who are suffering.
We will have to face strong commercial efforts that benefit from the Union policy, without taking care of the damage that it is causing to the masses of the people.
Millions
shall be used in propaganda in favour of the Union and to instill fear in our
people with the fib that our country cannot live independently outside the Union
and will be isolated and cut off from Europe.
But we have to explain to the people that outside the Union does not mean not in Europe.
That not being members of the Union, we will not be isolated, but will be partners with all the countries friends of Malta who wish us well, help us to be independent and free, as they had done before we became members in the Union.
We shall show the people that outside the Union we shall be better financially because the burdens and expenses of membership in the Union are greater than the funds that we are given by it.
Above
all else, we shall have again the dearest thing, liberty, that membership in the
Unions made us lose.
Thursday 6 March 2008
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