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

You who read the newspapers and listen to the news are sure to know that during the last four or five weeks various organizations – both from the Church and laity – as well as some politicians and some correspondents in newspapers, are all mentioning the uncontrolled increase in prices or land and property in our country.

They are speaking about this uncontrolled increase that is causing great hardship to thousands of Maltese and Gozitan youths who have already been burdened with enormous debt to perhaps have a few rooms where to reside and raise a family.

Many are complaining that this problem is also making it very difficult for thousands of engaged couples who also wish to find a place to get married.

We are noting that while these organizations and individuals are all mentioning some reason or other that might have caused this problem, NONE of them are mentioning Malta’s membership in the European Union as the greatest cause that is to blame for the critical situation that many of our youths are finding themselves in.

Long before the 2003 referendum the CNI had warned that with membership in the EU we shall have a great problem in the property prices sector because a substantial number of EU citizens, especially couples of pensioners from the northern European countries – mostly from England – will choose to come and live among us.

And while prior to becoming EU members we could greatly limit their number with regulations that we had about the minimum price of the property that they could buy, and the amount of capital that they had to have out of Malta, we had warned that if we become EU members, we could no longer impose these limitations on foreign citizens that come from the European member states.

That which we had warned would happen started to happen from 2003, when the decision that Malta becomes an EU member was taken with the result of the General Election of that year.

The prices of land and buildings started climbing at a quick rate and continued to explode upwards in the following years.

Now, after the horses have bolted from their stables, many are opening their mouth or writing about this problem which is hitting hard, especially our youths.

Both the Church, as well as the Jesuits – that some of them had encouraged the Maltese people to vote in favour of EU membership – felt that the situation in the property sector is a very disturbing one.

While up to November last year one could say that no one had spoken, except the CNI, on the high prices of land and buildings, these last few weeks the story has changed, although up to now the Government is still staring – the Prime Minister last Saturday admitted tat there is little one can do – looking at the problem without knowing what he is to do because he does not want to step on the corns of those who pay thousands of Liri to the party when it organizes collections of funds.

In France, the Government said that it intends to pass a law that makes it a FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT for its citizens to have a decent place where to live. This means that the Government will have political responsibility to give this right to all its citizens. To succeed in doing so, it is necessary to take radical decisions.

One of the proposals being recommended is the requisition of houses that have been empty for a period of time. The Government then refurbishes them so that it will house those who are living in the streets, or living in houses that are not decent.

While in France, where for the first time the fundamental human rights were proclaimed, they have arrived at considering in taking these radical decisions to solve the problem of people without decent housing, in Malta we have those who insist that even speculators have bought whole streets where these houses are found, have a right to do whatever they please with their property, and this right comes before the right of every Maltese citizen to have a roof over his head and a decent place where to live!

In 2003 a small majority of Maltese and Gozitans thought that membership in the European Union was going to be of more benefit than damaging to our country.

Notwithstanding the fact that the three political parties are in favour of European Union membership, and notwithstanding the constant and ceaseless in its favour, the complaints against it from many sectors of the population are constantly increasing.

Two and a half years after becoming members in the EU on 1 May 2004, it appears that the majority of the people are not thinking the same as in 2003.

As the will of the people prevailed in 2003 in favour of Union membership, so should the will of the majority against membership today prevail.

The will of the today’s majority will prevail by our country leaving the European block.

Some think that financially it is not in the interest of our country to leave the Union. But they are mistaken.

When the sums are correctly made, we find that even financially it will be better for us to leave the EU.

The Union is going to give Malta 885 million euros for seven years, which amount to around Lm52 million and also give the profits that he Central Bank of Malta makes on the foreign reserves that during this year are estimated at Lm 11 million.

Because of Union membership our country lost Lm14 millions every year that used to get from the Italian Protocol.

These three together amount to Lm47 million every year.

The expenses that our country has to make because of membership amount to more than Lm5 million every year, and therefore between what we pay and what we have lost, we find that these amount to more than the Lm52 million that we get every year from the Union.

Although we have requested the Government to publish the accounts of how much we pay the EU and how much we are going to lose because of membership and how big is all the expense for our country because of membership the government did not publish them because it does not want the Maltese people to see how we are losing more than we are going to get.

It is in our country’s interest not to implement the EU’s policy in different sectors, and first of all in the employment sector.

For our country to live and move forward, it must increase employment and the sale of products and services to foreigners.

The European Union is not allowing the government to intervene to create work by giving aid to enterprises to keep their employees and increase their employees.

If we do not remain bound by the Union regulations in the employment sector, we would be able to adopt all the necessary measures to increase employment and protect jobs.

Lately many showed their preoccupation on the problem of exaggerated prices for houses

With Union membership, the demand for the buying of houses in our country by EU foreigners has increased.

Also increased was the expense

* for the construction of buildings

* and consequently the prices of houses,

* with the 18 percent tax on construction work,

* apertures,

* plumbing,

* electrical installation,

* tile laying,

* plastering and painting,

* and the architects tariffs.

The increased demand for the buying of houses and the imposition of VAT on the expenses of construction are the consequences of European Union membership.

To start finding the solution to the problem of high house prices, we have to decrease the demand for the buying of houses from foreigners and remove the VAT from buildings – two measures that the EU does not allow us to take.

The alternative is to leave the Union once it is not ready to allow us to take these two measures that our people need.

Therefore it is in the national interest that we leave the European Union!

In the European Union you cannot take into consideration the sexual orientation of a person because if you do so you will be accused of a breach if the fundamental right of that person by discriminating between him/her and persons who do not have his/her sexual orientation.

We find this reasoning written in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and it is considered as one of the values of human dignity that the EU protects and which insists that it be observed in every member country.

Naturally after Malta became a member in the EU this reasoning also applies to our country and binds us to implement it in every sector of our civil and social life.

We find it explained in Article II-81 of the Treaty that establishes a Constitution for Europe that the Maltese Parliament voted in its favour on 6 July 2005.

The application of the rule that you cannot treat a person because of his/her sexual orientation differently that how you treat with persons who do not have that sexual orientation, can create many difficulties both in the upbringing and education of children and youths, as well as other sectors of civil and social life.

A clear example of the difficulties in the implementation of this EU rule that prohibits the consideration of the sexual orientation of persons is presently being given great prominence in England.

In England a law was passed, ‘The Equality Act’, that is to come into effect next April and which make it illegal not to provide objects, not to offer facilities, or not to offer services to a person because of his/her sexual orientation.

On the strength of this law, a homosexual couple cannot be denied the adoption of children as a married couple of a man and woman can make.

The Archbishop of Westminster in London, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the highest dignitary of the Catholic Church in England, has just sent a letter to Tony Blair in which he requested him that Catholic agencies who work for the adoption of children, would be exempted from the law that prevents them from denying a homosexual couple from adopting children.

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor told Prime Minister Blair that it is not right and just that in order for Catholic agencies continue to work in favour the of adoption of children, they have to go against their conscience and breach the laws of the Catholic Church on the objections for homosexual couples to adopt children.

If the Catholic agencies for the adoption of children will not be exempted from implementing ‘The Equality Act’ in case of the adoption of children by homosexual couples, the Catholic agencies will not be able to continue to give this useful service for children and society.

The 12 Catholic agencies for children together account for about a third of all adoptions in England and Wales.

The European Union is not going to allow the British Government to give this exemption to the English Catholics. The same story will happen in our country in a few days.

Thursday, 08 February 2007.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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