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

Last Tuesday the Council of Ministers of the European Union on Finance and Economy approved a recommendation of the European Commission to initiate proceedings against Malta if, by the end of the year 2010 the Maltese Government deficit is not reduced to not more than 3% of the Gross Domestic Product.

Today the deficit amounts to 4.7%.

The recommendation of the European Commission that insists that Malta reduces the deficit by 2010 created harsh criticism from economists who have a clear picture of the impact that the world economic recession has on our country.

A prominent commentator who notwithstanding that he is blinded after membership of our country in the EU, thus wrote in a local English newspaper:

“The EU, with grandiose stupidity, has decreed that we have to come into the budget para­meter line (That is 3% of GDP) within 18 months, contradicting itself over its reading of the recession”,

and reiterated that:

“Brussels is being stupid”.

Many critics have long been insisting that the EU is stupid in many sectors in the policy that it drafts, such as for example, in the common agricultural policy and its policy on immigration.

But now many are harshly criticizing the EU economic policy and are calling it stupid.

The above-mentioned commentator even spoke about the EU “grandiose stupidity” that,

* in times when governments need to pump money into the economies of the countries

* to overcome the economic recession,

* the European Commission is pressing them to reduce expenditure not increase it.

It's good that we make it clear

* that if it cannot be said that the EU caused the present economic recession,

* its industrial policy prior to the recession

* was the cause of much of the unemployment

* that is burdening many member countries.

The Union industrial policy

* reduced the block manufacturing industry                 

* and forced many big European industrial enterprises

* to migrate to countries outside the EU.                      

Our country,

* when it became a member,                              

* suffered this disastrous industrial policy        

* and lost a number of manufacturing factories

* and because of this,                                         

* thousands of Maltese workers lost their jobs.

With the world economic recession

* more Maltese workers are losing their job                                  

* because exports from our country contracted,                             

* the number of tourists to our country declined                             

* and the business contracted because consumption was reduced.

For the economic activity of our country to recover,

* it is required that the Government makes good for the loss of jobs in the private sector

* by itself creating jobs until this sector starts creating jobs for Maltese workers.            

The Government itself should temporarily employ unemployed persons.

Thus more money will be collected from direct taxes and social security payments reduced.

After all, this would be implementing social justice because the right to work will be enjoyed by every Maltese and Gozitan and will not remain denied to thousands, as is presently happening.

But the EU does not want the Maltese Government to spend more than it gets by more than 3% of the GDP.

It does not care,

* neither about the sufferings of the thousands of unemployed workers,

* nor that in times of economic recession

* if the government does not create work itself

* it will be more difficult

* and takes more time

* to overcome the recession.

Apart from being “grandiously stupid”, the EU is without a social conscience.

Unless the EU changes it economic and social beliefs,

* millions of workers in the member countries

* remain naked from the dignity

* that a human being can only acquire through work.

Because the EU gives more importance to its economic regulations than the dignity of the citizens.

As long as with the scope of protecting free competition

* the EU does not allow the government to help the industries

* because they will be given an advantage on their competitors in the block,

* unemployment shall continue to increase.

At the same time

* the EU implements a policy of free trade

* that opens wide the doors of its member countries

* for the importation of products produces outside the Union.

As if the industries aided by the governments of countries outside the EU are not just the same giving them an advantage on the EU competitor industries.

Because of this policy, millions of EU workers are unemployed.

Because of this policy

* that the State is not allowed to give aid to industries

* so that they can continue to operate,

* 1,700 workers in the Shipyard in Malta lost their job,

* when in other countries the governments are spending billions

* for the industries not to reduce work and workers.

The EU wants governments to reduce their spending

* because it wants to protect its economic beliefs

* and does not acre that it is cruel and unjust

* with millions of its own unemployed citizens.

We do not agree with this policy!

The EU is in favour of immigration.

This was stated by the European Commissioner for Justice Jacques Barrot himself when in an English local newspaper thus wrote:

“We need immigration to protect Europe against the demographic crisis which threatens our eco­nomies and our social protection systems”.

Therefore it is a clear fact that the European Union implements a policy that encourages immigration because the EU needs it.

And the EU insists that all the member countries,

* including Malta,

* implement the Union common policy in the immigration sector .

It is also a similarly clear fact that immigration is neither required nor is it good for Malta.

Indeed,     

* because of the size of the population      

* and the small size of our country,            

* as well as the lack of work                       

* and the number of unemployed workers,

* immigration is a great harm to us.           

Thus, on immigration,

* the interests of the EU are against those of Malta,

* and the European policy on immigration                  

* is harmful to our country if we accept it,                    

* as up to now it appears that we have dome.             

It is a fact that the crisis of illegal immigrants that we presently have in our country is a consequence of our membership in the EU and because we have acted according to the EU policy on immigration and because we have obeyed what the Union wanted from us.

We should not have done so

* because the particular circumstances of Malta

* are not the same circumstances of the EU.       

The European Commissioner Barrot in the same newspaper mentioned above thus wrote:

“Malta, with its 400,000 inhabitants, experienced a 100 per cent rise in the number of asylum applications per 1,000 inhabitants, compared to the European average of 0.5”.

According to official statistics published last June by the Immigration and Naturalisation Service of the Netherlands, it results that when you compare the size of the country and that of the EU countries,

“Malta received by far and away per 1,000 square km, more than 100 times more than the EU average (55 per 1,000 sq. km)”.

The report also says that from all the EU countries,

* Malta had the greatest number of asylum claims in 2008,

* when you consider the size of the population:                    

* 6,349 claims for every million inhabitants,                         

* which is 13.2 times more than the EU average                   

* of 481 claims for every million inhabitants.                         

The Dutch report says the same thing on the number of claims for asylum of every EU member country, compared with the country’s GDP:

Malta had 16.9 times more claims than the EU average,

And when you consider the size of the country,

* the size of the population

* and the size of the Gross Domestic Product,

* the report shows that Malta had in 2008

* a number of claims for asylum 59.6 times more than the EU average.

These figures in the Dutch Report

* witness how our country was hard hit by illegal immigration,      

* and how the EU is unjust with us                                                   

* when it insists that we have to observe its rules on immigration.

The figures give credit to the Maltese Government of 1971

* that had made a number of very important reservations        

* when it signed the International Refugee Convention of 1951

* and uncover the great guilt of the 1990s Maltese Government

* that yielded to the EU ransom                                                     

* that either it repeals those reservations                                     

* or the Union will not accept that Malta becomes a member in the Union,             

* and which also signed that Malta shall be bound                                                    

* by the regulations of the agreement known as the EU Dublin II.                           

It is very clear that in the particular circumstances of our country,

* the EU regulations and the policy on immigration

* is of great harm to our people

* and against the national interests.

The Maltese people are right a hundred times over not to submit to them,

and we should tell this to the EU without any hesitation.

Where national interests are concerned,

* the protection of the health and security of the people,                                            

* the future of our children                                                                                            

* who are threatened by the presence of thousands of illegal immigrants among  us,

* we should not stand back from standing up to the EU.                                              

In the illegal immigrants sector

* this is what the governments

* of Italy

* and Greece

* are doing, that notwithstanding the EU protests,

* they are pushing back illegal immigrants who try to enter the country.

They are not waiting for the burden sharing agreement to be implemented,

* or for the set up of the agency on immigration,

* and are neither they taking notice of the EU meetings and discussions

* on illegal immigration,

* that shall never result in curbing the invasion of these illegal immigrants.

One the Union needs immigrants we cannot wait for it to exempt Malta from its regulations and policy on immigration.

From our side we have an interest to totally curb illegal immigration in our country.

On immigration, the situation of Malta and the EU are irreconcilable.

Immigration is harmful for Malta and good for the Union.

Justice and reason say that that is why the EU should encourage immigration for itself, but it should let Malta take the necessary measures to curb illegal immigration.

Thursday 9 July 2009

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