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and against Malta's membership of the European Union

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

The European Union does not want that the Shipyard be given financial aid after December next year. 

Our country will make a big mistake if it submits to what the Union wants about the Shipyard. 

Because the Shipyard should be considered as the best technical school that our country can have, and the practical training that our youths can get from the Shipyard can never be acquired at the Technology College and at the Faculty of Science at the University, or at any other place.

It will be very useful if we prepare our youths in trades and technology with practical training at the Shipyard workshops, together with the lectures that they are given at the Technology College and the University. 

If we do so, we will be able to continue to give financial aid to the Shipyard for training our tomorrow’s trade masters and the technicians that our country requires in the coming years.

The European Union will have no basis to oppose the granting of public funds to the Shipyard which will be the ‘workshop’ of the Technology College and of the University. 

As the Technology College and the University are given public funds for the theoretical instructions of trades, in sciences and technology, the Shipyard will also be able to be given public funds for that practical training required to compliment the theoretical instructions given at the Technology College and the University.

It will be better for our country if the millions that we have to spend to build and furnish with a modern plant the workshops of the Technology College, we spend them by furnishing with modern plants the Shipyard workshops for the practical training of our youths in trades and technology, apart from serving for the repair and building of ships.

We should explain to the European Union that our country will become poorer not with the granting of funds to the Shipyard, but with the closure of the Shipyard if we do not give it aid. 

The aid granted to the Shipyard that trains our youths in trades and technology is an investment that gives returns to the country, such as is the investment that we make in schools, colleges and the University. 

In this manner, in the yearly Budget of the Education Department, in the capital expenditure vote, and of the recurrent expenditure of the schools, colleges and the University, we will be able to include the capital expenditure for the modernization of the Shipyard and the payment of part of the recurrent expenditure of the Shipyard that will be considered as the workshop of the Technology College and of the University.

We should insist with the European Union that our country needs tradesmen and technicians, and not only employees in offices and shops. 

We should show the Union that we are not ready to comply and have hundreds of tradesmen be scattered in work which is not according to their trade in government and parastatal offices not to become unemployed, but are paid just the same from public funds, just so that they are not paid by the Shipyard on the strength of the subsidies granted to it. 

Tradesmen and technicians should be considered as giving “an essential service” to the development and progress of the country.

Malta can get by without the European Union. 

It cannot get by without the Shipyard.

One of the worst consequences of membership in the European Union is the increase in the cost of living.

Because the policy with which the Union forces the member countries to introduce VAT on products and services, increases the process and thus increases the cost of living.

The cost of living in our country would not have been so high had we not introduced VAT as wanted by the European Union. 

Thus if we were not members in the Union, we will not have had the high cost of living that today is threatening destroy the families.

For one to understand how the VAT ordered by the Union increased the cost of living, all that one has to do is to see how many millions are being collected through VAT. 

According to the Government Budget, next year the Government is going to get 

191 million Malta Liri from VAT. 

Therefore, without VAT, we would have paid 

191 million Liri less 

on products and services that we buy during next year, 

and their prices 

would have been lower by 191 million Liri.

When they removed the ‘import levies’, they said that prices will decrease. 

From the ‘import levies’ the Government would not have collected a quarter of the millions that it gets from VAT 

(less than 48 million liri). 

Therefore with VAT, even after deducting what was saved from levies, 

the cost of living has increased by 143 million liri, 

that represents the difference between the amount collected through VAT and the amount that would have been collected through levies 

(Lm191 million minus Lm48 million).

But the European Union is not contented that it has increased our cost of living 

by Lm143 million per year. 

It want us to shortly introduce VAT 

* on all food products and 

* medicines. 

Apart from this, it is forcing us to pay 

* taxes and 

* levies, 

and thus pay millions more in higher prices for 

* petrol, 

* diesel, 

* kerosene and other 

* petroleum products,

* for electricity and 

* water 

in whose production petroleum products are used.

The EU propagandists huide all this from the people because if the people get to know how the Union policy is increasing the cost of living, will rebel against the Union and against its scandalous policy that we follow as long as we remain members in the Union.
 
Even the Ewro is going to increase the cost of living. 

We can find proof of this in the cost of living increase in wages which the Government has given in the last budget. 

The Government has given 

50c wage increase for the cost of living for this year, and 

one Lira for the cost of living for next year.

This means that the Government itself is admitting that the increase in the cost of living will be double what it was this year. 

Because next year we are introducing the Ewro.

The problem of illegal immigration is aggravating itself in our country, and the greatest tort of this is the European Union, and afterwards, of those among us who accept that we follow the policy and regulations of the Union in the immigration sector.

In the first place we should understand that the interests of the Union with respect to immigration all totally opposite to those of Malta. 

The Union badly needs immigrants because they will make good for the reduction of the population in many Union countries. 

On the contrary, our country does not only not need immigrants, but cannot take immigrants in view of the size of our population which is increasing every year.

The European Union does not want to stop the entry of immigrants because they are useful for increasing its economy. 

Until the Union ocuntries arrive at a common agreement  for them to regulate immigration, the Union policy will continue to allow illegal immigration by considering it as an irregular activity, not an illegal activity.

The European Union is giving funds to member countries, including Malta, to take care of illegal immigrants and to regularize their life in the Union countries. 

Therefore the Union is not using the funds to stop illegal immigration, but is using them for the illegal immigrasnts to have a better life where they are kept, and so that after a short time, they will not remain locked up in closed detention centres, so that they will be given work and all the social benefits, until they will no longer be considered as immigrants, and wil be considered as foreigners residing regularly in the Union countries.

This is the policy that the European Union wants us to implement in our country, whuile it is not in the interests of the Maltese people to follow this Union policy. 

The interests of the Maltese people are that we should have zero tolerance to illegal immigration, and not the wide tolerance pf the European Union.

This is the fundamental point of difference between the Union policy and the policy that should be Malta’s policy on immigration. 

If we do not understand this difference, we will continue to make the mistakes of permitting illegal immigrats to remain in our country and continue to permit them to increase year after year.

Last week we heard the boasting that new facilities are being built for illegal immigrants in f'Ħal Far at the army premises and at Ta' Kandja at the Police premises,and that we expect 1,700 immigrants next year. 

With this we are keeping the European Union happy, but we are betraying the Maltese people by increasing their problems that they have today, and assure them great social problems in the future.

Recently the European Union decided that for the year 2008 it will increase its spending for defence by 10 million Ewros to the amount of 32 million Ewros.

During the current year the expense is 22 million Ewros.

The are member countries in the Union who do not pay their share for the Union’s defence expenditure. 

But Malta uis not one of them, and although the Maltese Constitution does not permit the country to take part in military alliances, Malta is taking part in paying for the Union’s defence expenditure.

The European Union is proposing to adopt a policy of continuing to dismantle the manufacturing enterprises in the Union countries and help them to set up in countries outside the Union where the workers working conditions are very bad and wages very low. 

According to the policy which the Union is proposing, factories set up in countries outside the Union by European companies registered in Union countries will be considered the same as European factories in the Union.

Products produced in these factories in countries outside the Union will be considered as products produced in the Union and enter the Union without any tariffs and quotas limits. 

With this policy, European companies will continue to reduce the workforce in Union factories, and instead open factories outside the Union.

It has been recently stated in the Maltese Parliament that this year around 8,000 work permits for foreigners to work in Malta had been issued. 

Permits were even issued for foreign cleaners.

Until recently the European Union propagandists used to criticize those who prior to the 2003 referendum used to insist teat with membership in the Union, our country will be opened to thousands of foreigners who will come to take the work of the Maltese workers. 

Time had again given credit to those who used to warn about this threat, and today the Union propagandists have remained silent about the amount of foreigners that are coming to our country because of our membership in the Union.

Luxembourg is the smallest country after Malta in the European Union. 

Notwithstanding its small size, it has that highest standard if living in the Union. 

Notwithstanding its wealth, it receives from the Union great funds, much more than those given to Malta that has a standard of living which is less than half that of Luxembourg.

Observers many times criticize the Union for treating Malta badly when they compare how it treats Luxembourg.

Thursday 6 December 2007.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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