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

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The European Union is a bad example to the governments of its member countries.

While it encourages them to reduce the salaries

* and wages of the public sector emplyees

* and tells them to reduce public spending,

* it is going to increase the salaries of its officials

* and employees

* and is increasing its budget and spending.

On 24 November, the Court of Justice of the European Union said that the salaries of the EU officials and employees are to be increased by 3.7% between July, 2009 and June, 2010.

The judgment was given in a case that the Unions of the EU officials and employees instituted against the European Commission because it could only grant an increase of 1.8% according to what the Council of minister of the member countries had decided.

The ministers of the EU member countries had reasoned that at a time when the governments of the countries that are suffering great recession are curbing the salaries and wages of the public sector employees and imposing austerity measures on the people, it was not fitting that the salaries and wages of the EU officials and employees be increased.

But the EU Court reasoned that according to the EU employment regulations, it was bound to increase the salaries and wages according to an automatic mechanism that takes into account the increase in salaries of public employees in the best eight EU countries, among them Germany, France, England and Italy.

After the EU Court judgment, Michael Mann, the main spokesperson for the European Commission said that interests must also be paid for the months that the increase was not paid.

With the grant of the increase to the EU officials and employees, the governments of the member countries found themselves in a very embarassing situation with their people.

Because in their countries they are not increasing the salaries and wages of the employees and workers in the public sector, and in some cases they are reducing them, even the minimum wage.

But at the same time the EU employees and officials who are paid from the funds that the national governments give to the EU, the same leaders in the EU Council of Ministers of the are going to have to authorize the increase in salaries.

Apart from the increase of 3.7% for the year July, 2009 – June, 2010 the European Commission on 18 November agreed  that the same EU officials and employees be given another increase of 0.4% for the year July, 2010 – June 2011, which altogether is going to cost another €9.7 million every year.

The Ministers of the EU member governments most probably will have to accept to also pay for this increase, which was worked out on the same automatic mechanism that the judgment of the EU Court worked on in the case of the 3.7% increase.

Also in this expense and its budget,the European Union is doing the opposite of what it wants the governments of the member countries to do by decreasing public spending.

Earlier on this year the European Commission drafted a budget for the coming year which increases the EU expenditure by 6% on the expenses for 2010.

On 12 August the representatives of the governments of the member countries in the Council of Ministers reduced €3.6 billion the budget proposed by the European Commission.

The budget approved by the Council of Ministers means that the EU expenditure for the year 2011 is going to be €126.6 billion

The European Parliament did not agree with the reduced budget of the Council of Ministers, and supported that which the European Commisison had drafted.

The efforts that were made by the representatives of the European Parliament and those of the council fo Ministers have still not arrived at a compromise agreement.

The Council of Ministers is insisting that the reduction in the amount with which next year’s budget is to be increased, is accordign to the policy of the governments of the member countries that are reducing their spending on the public service in their countries.

They are aware that every increase in the EU expenditure is coming from the funds that the member countries pay the EU every year, and therefore an increase in EU expenditure means an increase in the payments that the member governments will have to make.

If we take Malta’s example,

* it is found that while in 2010

* our country had to pay the EU €66.4 million,

* next year,

* according to the Government Official Estimates,

* Malta is going to pay the EU €68 million,

* so that in eight years of EU membership,

* Malta will have paid the UE

* more than €444 million.

It is scandalous that while the people of the EU member countries

* are being burdened with harsh austerity measures

* and burdened with great burdens of taxes and tariffs,

* the European Union continues to spend more,

* increase the salaries and increase the benefits for its officials and employees,

* and squanders great millions of euros in excessive waste and luxury.

There is no hope that the European Union will ever get better,

* because instead of changing its policy

* that led it to the edge of bankruptcy,

* it is worsening the dire social situation

* of the people of the member countries

* with measures that increase poverty for the masses

* and increase the unemployemnt of workers,

* while they increase the wealth of the few.

Instead of implementing a policy that increases the lower sectors so that the higher sectors also increase with them, the EU is trapling the sectors lower and benefitting more the higher few, and is thus increasing the social and economic differences among the peoples sectors.

The EU is happy to redcue the minimum wage of workers because of austerity, while continuing to increase that of people with a salary of hundreds of thousands.

The EU in fact blesses the fact that, in times of economic recession, a Prime Minister and Ministers get an abrupt increase of €500 and €600 per week and only give the workers €1.16 every week.

The same barefaced persons award themselves this increase to go to Brussels to agree with their henchmen what burdens should be increased on workers, employees and pensioners of the EU member countries, so that through them they solve the financial crisis that are burdening the EU countries.

It’s not in vain that great street protests and revolts are spreading throughout the EU countries cities by workers, by employees, by pensioners and by students, against the austerity measures that the European Union is insisting to be taken by the governments of the member countries.

The people are slowly realizing

* that the European Union policy

* is not the cure for the present trouble,

* but its cause,

* and for it to be solved,

* the failed EU policy must be changed,

* and if this does not happen,

* the European Union should dissolve itself

* and every member country will implement the best policy suitable for it

* according to its own particular circumstances,

* as it used to do before it became an EU member.

When a few years ago Argentina declared that it was bankrupt, it did not take the International Monetary Fund (IMF)  medicine and did not borrow billions to pay its creditors.

It told them to accept to wait for years to be paid back the loans they had given it (debt rescheduling).

In time it again became financially strong.

The euro countries cannot adopt the Argentinian cure

* because the European Union does not allow them not to pay their creditors,

* because their creditors are the big

* German,

* French

* and British

* banks and financial institutions.

That is why the EU is imposing on the member countries who cannot pay their debt to take loans of billions of euros that the governments of the euro countries are bound by the EU to loan to those who cannot pay the debt, as happened in the case of Greece and in the case of Ireland.

At the same time that the EU told the governments of the euro countries to loan millions or billions to the countries who cannot pay their debt, it wants the same governments to take back the millions or billions that they borrowed, from the taxes that the governments shall have to impose on their people, and from the money that the governments are making, are going to come from their peoples backs.

This policy that the EU is imposing on the member countries is repressing and contracting their economies because with it the people end up with less money to spend, and this both due to increased government taxes and tariffs, as well as because great thousands end up without work and without a wage.

The governments of the euro countries, instead of spending great millions to increase work, employment and increase the economic activity of their people, are loaning them to the other countries so that they will be able to pay back their debt that they have with foreign banks and financial institutions.

In the case of Malta,

* the Maltese people are not benefitting anything

* from the loans they are giving to Greece

* and with the millions of euros in guarantees

* that they are making as their share

* of the €740 billion fund,

* the European Union,

* the International Monetary Fund

* and the EU Central Bank.

They are being set up to help the euro countries that will be going bankrupt, as happened in the case of Ireland and as is now being said is going to happen in the case of Portugal and Spain.

But the Maltese people would have greatly benefitted if these millions of euros that they loaned to Greece and guaranteed to other countries, instead invested them in our country and created more work for our people.

And while all this damage is being caused to our people,

* the Maltese Parliament appears as if nothing is happening,

* and the Prime Minister and Ministers

* come back from Brussels where all this is being planned,

* happy as the statue’s angels.

(A Maltese expression which refers that notwithstanding that a statue’s Angel has a nail in his back he still keeps smiling)

The MAFIA,

* smugglers,

* traffickers of persons and drugs,

* delinquents and criminals

* of the 26 European Union countries  

* can come to Malta

* without us even examining their passport

* and without a Visa,

* because we became European Union members.

But because we became EU members,

* we do not allow serious Libyan families

* to come to Malta

* unless we subject them to begging for a Visa

* and after many days of trouble to acquire it

* once the EU does not accept that we give them a Visa.

It must be said that the Italians can go to Libya without the requirement of having a Visa.

This arrangement entered into effect three months ago.

If the Italians,

* which like us are EU

* and Schengen members,

* removed the Visa for Libya,

* why cannot we the Maltese

* remove the Visa requirement for the Libyans?

Once the Libyans enter Italy without a Visa, why cannot we the Maltese not allow the Libyans come to Malta without a Visa?

The removal of the visa for Maltese to go to Libya

* is a great advantage because it makes it less difficult

* for Maltese workers to go to work there,

* and for Maltese traders to go to trade their products with the Libyans,

* for Maltese contractors to go to take works contracts in that country

* where there are great work opportunities

* and great work contracts.

Today the work and contracts in Libya are being taken by the Italians and the Turks, both of whom have removed the Visa requirement for Libyans to go to Italy and Turkey.

In our case,

* the European Union insisted during the EU membership negotiations,

* that the Maltese Government impose the Visa for the Libyans,

* and the Maltese Government neither had the political

* will nor the courage to stand up to the European Union

* and show it that it is in our national interest

* to continue with the agreement that we had with Libya

* that the Maltese go to Libya without a Visa

* and they come here without a Visa.

When on European Union pressure we repealed the agreement we had with Libya,

* they understood that we the Maltese were not ready to continue to consider them as our friends,

* and that we did not wish them to continue coming to Malta as numerous as they used to come in previous years.

We can say that after becoming EU members,

* we no longer command who enters into our home,

* but the EU,

* who are neither appointed by us

* nor do they represent us.

Our home’s key is held by them.

So much so, that when the Schengen countries decided not to allow a number of Libyans to go to the EU, we also had to prevent them from coming to Malta.

We ended up very badly because as a result, the Libyans did not allow us to go to Libya.

Thursday 09 December 2010.

The Maltese people want Parliament to take steps forthwith to curb immigration in our country

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