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Last Saturday’s meeting in Rome of the leaders of government of the 28 European Union countries (15 existing members, 10 that are going to become members and another three who want to become members), will be remembered mostly not for what happened in it, but for what happened outside in the roads leading to the palace where the leaders met.
Last Saturday in the streets of Rome there were big demonstrations of protest against the economic and employment policy of the European Union and against the new Constitution that the Union is drafting.
The popular street protest was so strong, that the leaders of government of the countries attending the meeting suddenly cancelled the meeting that they had in the afternoon, because it was feared that their security was threatened.
A lesson for the Prime Minister
We
are certain that the Maltese Prime Minister learned a lesson that he needed with
what he saw happening in front of his own eyes in Rome on Saturday.
Indeed he even had to cancel the meeting that was notified to the media.
He cancelled it due to the reason of a threat to his security.
The Maltese Prime Minister learned a lesson that in the European Union politics
are played in the roughest manner than it is played in Malta and that the
streets of the European Union cities are open for the holding of harsh protests
and that violence in the European Union is not some rare fact, and that we
expect these things to also happen in Malta in European Union meetings that are
held here, now that we are part of it.
The trade unions are against the Union
But what mostly hit the Maltese people, especially the Maltese workers was the impressionable appearance of trade unions officers of the European Union countries taking a prominent part in the protest demonstrations against the European Union policy that is seriously threatening the rights of the European workers and against the new Union Constitution.
In the eyes of the European Union trade unions the new Union Constitution is the worst, that they are fed likened it to toilet paper, and on television we could see the trade union officers throwing rolls of toilet paper towards the palace where the leaders of governments were meeting.
For the European trade unions the new European Union Constitution is no better
than toilet paper.
Strong impact on Maltese workers
The trade unions officers who last Saturday took part in the protest demonstration in Rome against the European Union are the same people who until a while ago were its strongest supporters.
They have now understood that the
Union is pushing economic globalization that is causing discharges and
unemployment in the European Union countries.
They have now understood that the bad Union policy is threatening the social
state and the welfare state, the pensions and many other benefits that the
workers acquired by means of their trade unions.
Last Saturday’s scenes in Rome on television of the European trade unions protest could not fail to leave a strong impact on the Maltese workers and trade unions, mostly on those who were previously blind to the atrocious reality of the European Union.
The Prime Minister feigns
The Maltese Prime Minister, although visibly shaken with what he saw on Saturday in Rome against the European Union, feigned and acted as if he didn’t see or hear anything.
With what he said to the press in Malta after coming back from Rome, he didn’t reveal anything new and showed only a waste of time and money when he took part in ceremonies and spectacles that the European Union organized in Rome last Saturday.
Theatrical scenes as we saw last Saturday with the participation of the Maltese political leaders, now that we have become European Union members, are going to see frequently, even though Malta’s coffer cannot afford the expenses of our participation in these caprices and vain bragging.
It is estimated that the expenses for the Rome meeting to be held last Saturday amounts to about 15 million Euro, equivalent to six million and four hundred thousand Malta Lira.
The ETUC General Secretary
The
trade unions protest demonstration in Rome last Saturday was organized by the
European Trade Unions Confederation (ETUC) with which are members the trade
unions of the European Union member countries.
The representatives of these trade unions made the protest to force the European Union change to a policy that increases employment instead of its present policy that permits great millions of workers to be unemployed.
The General Secretary of the Confederation of trade unions presently is John Monks, who until a while ago was the General Secretary of the United Kingdom Trade Union Congress.
He took a prominent part in the protest demonstration in Rome and explained that the purpose of the demonstration was to give a message to the European Union political leaders that the trade unions, at the same time as wanting economic development and full employment, are not ready to accept that these mean a reduction in the granting of protection at decent levels and by the reduction of the welfare state and the removing of the rights that the workers had acquired.
A cause of conflict not cooperation
John Monks added that the reduction and the cuttings that the governments of the European Union countries are being forced to make without agreement with the trade unions, both in the granting of pensions as well as in public contracts and the public sector, are a cause of conflict and not of social cooperation.
Monks insisted that a new Europe should be built on the foundations of social dialogue and on full employment, things that are lacking in the European Union.
He was sorry that the trade unions cannot expect to get an increase in social rights from the European Union intergovernmental meeting that was being held in Rome.
Bjut he insisted that the European Union trade unions were fighting to at least not suffer a reduction in the recommendations that the Convention that had drafted the European Union Constitution had made on social rights.
The stale fruit of EU membership
The bad effects of Malta’s European Union membership are already being felt by a number of sectors of the Maltese people.
The first sector is that of the workers.
Hundreds
of Shipyard workers
have the sword of discharges hanging on their neck.
Hundreds of workers in enterprises in Malta know that their employment is being terminated because the European Union regulations cannot allow them to continue to compete with imported items.
Other factory workers have their work threatened because our country is not going to remain competitive after the increase in the expenses of production because of the European Union.
A number of sectors hit
The second sector is that of the entrepreneurs
who are facing either to drastically scale down their work, or totally close down or go bankrupt, because with the European Union policy they have lost the protection and incentives hat they had and sales dried up.
The third sector is that of agriculture.
Following
the visit among us of the European Commissioner for Agriculture Frans Fischler,
the farmers found out that the Government had fooled them prior to the
referendum when it assured them that it was going to introduce a clause in the
agreement with the Union that was going to protect them from the danger that the
importation of agricultural products would drop the price of Maltese products.
Now the farmers have found out that this clause for the protection of prices, if it is ever used, can only be used in exceptional circumstances.
This deceit led to officials of the farmers associations that the Government had used in favour of Union membership have now publicly accused the Government that uit had deceived them to steal their vote.
The Pensions threat
The fourth sector of the people is that of the pensioners who are seeing lightning striking.
The Maltese Government ia having to obey the European Union directive to reduce the expenses on pensions, on the excuse that in the present financial situation, the present pensions are not sustainable.
The threat for pensions is in Malta as it is in every European Union country.
Prior to the referendum they had assured us that the European Union does not interfere in pensions.
This threat is being the cause of great upheaval in the other European Union countries, such as Germany, France and Italy, where big protests are being held against the reduction of the pensioners’ rights.
Threat to social services
The
fifth sector where we are seeing the bad effects of European Union membership is
that of the health care and social services.
Because of the financial situation the European Union insists with the governments not to continue to provide the service of health care and other health services, as they are today.
The Government is going to introduce payment measures for certain medical services that it provides to certain sectors of the people.
The
European Union is being considered by the European trade unions as a direct
threat to the welfare state that was set up in different European countries on
the initiative of the Socialist Parties and trade unions.
According to the European Union, the welfare state is an obstacle to economic expansion and therefore the public expenditure on benefits and social services must be reduced.
Other stale fruit
The
last bad fruit that we have because of the European Union and its membership is
the death of the helicopter service to Għawdex.
The European Union is not going to allow the service to be subsidized.
Therefore, once to have a helicopter service to Għawdex, it is necessary to be subsidized, since this subsidy is not allowed by the European Union, the helicopter service shall have to be stopped.
The stopping of the helicopter service to Għawdex is another smack for tourism to Għawdex.
The other smack is the reduction of certain trips of the Għawdex ferry that the Government has decided to carry out to reduce losses.
And the Gozitans are asking what use has the declaration that the Government so bragged about that it had made an agreement with the European Union on the special treatment for Għawdex, if the essential services for the Għawdex economy are being cut for economic reasons?
Thursday, 9 October, 2003
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