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The Reform Treaty was harshly criticized
The story of the new EU Reform Treaty is one of great shame to the same European block.
Because with it the Union is deceiving the people of the member countries by showing them that it is making a different treaty from that which the French and Dutch people voted against, while in fact it has the same provisions as the previous one, except that it is not called Constitution.
With this deceitful exercise the EU is trying to evade that the people do not
accept the new Treaty by not holding popular referenda about it and instead it
will be ratified by politicians in Parliaments.
Thus the EU is showing that it is not certain of the people support in that which it is doing, but just the same it wants to shove down people’s throats that which they don’t like.
The
EU could not give a better certificate to itself of the lack of democracy that
it has.
With this harsh criticism the CNI
Chairman, Dr Karmenu
Mifsud Bonnici, opened the press conference that was held by us on Monday, 6
August, about the new EU Reform Treaty that is currently being discussed by the
leaders of the member countries according to what the leaders had agreed during
the summit held last June in Berlin.
The Union plan is that later on this year the leaders of the member countries
would sign the new Treaty that will fill the void created by the “NO” of the
French and Dutch people two years ago to the European Union Constitutional
Treaty.
The
leaders of the 27 EU countries had signed that Constitutional Treaty during a
solemn ceremony with a lot of fanfare in Rome, on 29 October 2004.
That signing was uselessly done, the same as done by the Maltese Parliament when in July 2005 after the French and Dutch people had said “NO” to the Constitutional Treaty, capriciously voted unanimously in favour of ratification of the Treaty.
During the CNI press conference it was stated that the EU, following the smack in its face which it had been given by the French and Dutch citizens, launched a period of reflection and discussions so that it would learn what the citizens of the member countries think about it.
The
great number of discussions held were held for nothing, because the new Treaty
prepared by the Union has nothing from that which was said during the discussion
meetings.
Instead of listening to what the citizens of the member countries had said, the EU made a new treaty with which it is amending its Treaty of Rome and the other Treaty of Maastricht by inserting in them, word for word, everything of substance that was found in the Constitutional Treaty.
Without the word Constitution being mentioned anywhere, the new Treaty which is being called a Reform Treaty has all that which the French and Dutch citizens had objected to just the same.
Objections
Therefore the timely and justified objections that had been made against the Constitutional Treaty of 2004 are similarly strong and fitting against the new Reform Treaty.
Indeed,
in some places, the Reform Treaty is worse than the Constitutional Treaty.
It was stated during the press conference that CNI had fundamental objections to the Reform Treaty that continues to add to the sectors where the European Union takes decisions with the majority system and not with the consent of all the member countries.
Because
a decision taken by a majority also means that a country that had voted against
because it considers that the decision is not in its national interests has to
implement it just the same, against its national interests and against the will
of the majority of the people of the country that the Government of the country
represents.
If the Maltese Government opposes a directive that the Union issues on the
strength of the majority system, the Government will just the same have to
present it to the Maltese Parliament and force the majority of the members to
vote in its favour, notwithstanding that they do not agree with it.
In this manner the European Union would be destroying our country’s parliamentary democracy.
Fettered
competition
An important point that was raised during the CNI press conference was the change that France strongly wants to be made to the Union market policy.
Where
the Union states that among its purposes it has to offer an internal market
where competition is free and unfettered, in the new Reform Treaty the words
“where competition is free and unfettered” were left out.
For the
CNI this change about how the union considers the internal market where
competition has to be free and unfettered, presents an opportunity for our
country about the Shipyard.
With the pretext that the Malta Shipyard does not cause unfair competition to other Union member countries shipyards, the Union bound the Maltese Government
* not to give other aid to the Shipyard after 31 December 2008 and
* reduced the number of workers at the Shipyard and
* put a limit on the volume of work that the Shipyard can make.
These
restrictions have raptured the Shipyard and are going to destroy it.
Since according to the Reform Treaty the aims of the EU permit competition that is not free and not unfettered, our country has
* to insist to change the unjust Shipyard agreement, and
* that it shall be granted all the help that it needs,
* be allowed to employ as much workers as are in its interests, and
*
be allowed to do as much
work as it can.
If the Union would not want to accept to change the Shipyard agreement because
it is a commercial enterprise, then the Government should free itself from being
bound by the agreement by not keeping the Shipyard under a commercial company and
make it another Government department.
The Government departments are not run according to a free and unfettered competition system in any EU country.
And
thus can the Malta Shipyard be run by being directly in Government hands.
CNI believes
that the national interest demands that the Shipyard, which is the Trades
University in our country, should be strengthened not destroyed.
We
know that the English newspapers in our country always lick the European Union,
but one particular Editorial of one of the English newspapers issued last Sunday
came to our attention, because it put out its licking tongue more than usual to
lick the EU.
This Editorial used the excuse that the Labour leaders should apologize to the voters for their opposition to Malta’s membership in the Union.
According
to the Editorial, today everyone – except those hotheaded Labourites – agree
that the Labour Party (and therefore also CNI),
were wrong when they opposed membership in the Union.
It
appears that the Editorial of this last Sunday English newspaper does not know
about the result of a survey conducted by the EU itself last April where it
resulted that only 51 percent agree with Malta’s membership in the Union.
Is
it possible that the other 49 percent are all Labour Party ‘grassroots’?
We were not surprised that 66 percent said that they agree that Malta benefited with membership when they read and hear every day in the media a whole bombardment of EU propaganda about the supposed millions of Euros coming to our country without anyone, except us the CNI, are not giving
* a clear picture of how much we are paying,
* losing and
*
how much our
membership in the EU is costing us.
Can
they explain how, then, notwithstanding that 66 percent think that Malta
benefitted from membership, it is only 51 percent that agree with it?
The Editorial that we have mentioned boasted with the adoption of the Euro as being “the first great result of membership”.
We tell him that as regards the adoption of the Euro, neither the Maltese people nor the Government had any choice.
We were forced to adopt the Euro, whether we want to or not.
But
coincidentally, in the same edition of the English newspaper last Sunday, there
was an excellent article by Dr Philip M. Beattie, a University lecturer, about
the Euro.
Dr Beattie showed both the advantages and disadvantages that the Euro can have on our country’s economy.
And
the disadvantages appear to be greater than the advantages!
Apart from the fact that with the Euro the Maltese people will lose all control on the management of the Maltese economy, more than this we are going to lose a very important part of our identity as a sovereign and independent people.
This
sovereignty and identity that your money gives you, even on its own, is
priceless and cannot be measured in monetary terms.
The Editorial stooped to the same level of some David Casa when he said that we were “not invaded by the Sicilians” and that “also no people came to take the work of Maltese workers”.
Does
he know or not how many thousands of foreigners, EU citizens, came to Malta
since our country has become a Union colony?
Does he know or not how many hundreds of foreign workers from EU countries are working at the Shipyard instead of Maltese workers who were sent out on pension?
Is it possible that he is not seeing foreign workers from the EU working
* in hotels,
* in restaurants,
* in construction,
* plasterers,
*
tile-layers, etc, etc?
We ask this last Sunday English newspaper, whether like us he thinks that with membership in the EU Malta has also become a magnet for illegal immigrants who leave from the African coast because Malta is the nearest EU land?
Does
he not believe, like us, that in this problem the EU and the vast majority of
the member countries are making fools of us?
Does he not believe, like us, that because of membership in the Union,
* thousands of our youth have lost hope of getting married and raising a family, or
* being crucified for their whole life because of the astronomical rise in property prices
* because of our membership in the EU
and
thus we could no longer continue to control who can come from the EU to buy
property and reside and work in a permanent manner in our country?
We will make our last comment because we have run out of space.
Last
Sunday’s newspaper that we have mentioned has not learned, after announcing on
its first page how Malta “Lost a great amount of EU funds” because of delays
by the Maltese Government, that there is no guarantee that the mentioned funds
would all arrive because they are all bound by many conditions?
While it is certain that
* the millions that we are paying to the EU,
* that which we are losing and
* that which membership is costing us
we will have to continue to
* pay
* lose, and
* cost
for as long as Malta remains an EU
colony.
As
Dr Beattie ended his article, we also acknowledge that we believe in a Europe of
sovereign countries and are ready to continue struggling for Malta to become
again a free and independent country
WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION
Thursday 9 August 2007.
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