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

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

In the first month of this year Malta will have paid the European Union €4,340,000

The European Union ordered that in 2011 the Maltese and Gozitan people pay it €68,000,000

€186,000 daily stolen from your childrens mouths

The EU weakens trade unions

Prior to the 2003 referendum on our country’s membership in the European Union, leaders of some of the Maltese trade unions, who boast that in their work they are not influenced by partisan political belief, did their utmost in political propaganda in favour of the Union.

They insisted that with membership in the European Union, the workers were going to acquire more rights and the unions were going to be strengthened.

But just the same the leaders of these trade unions that made propaganda in favour of membership did not admit that they had erred, and are still today serving the interests of the EU more than protecting the interests of the workers.

But now it is not only the rights of the workers that were hard hit by the European policy.

Hard hit were also the rights of trade unions to order industrial action, with the decision given by the European Court last 18 December, in the case that a company from Latvia instituted against two Swedish trade unions.

The case concerned industrial actions that two Swedish trade unions organized against the company from Latvia that won a construction contract for a school in a Swedish city.

The Swedish trade unions insisted with it to agree on the wages that the Latvian company had to pay its Latvian employees in Sweden, so that their wages will not be less than those paid by Swedish companies in Sweden.

The trade unions also insisted that the Latvian company makes a collective agreement for the Latvian employed.

The trade unions took industrial actions by blocking the work premises that the Latvian company had in Sweden and blocked the electricity supply.

It filed a case against the two Swedish trade unions, one of the public construction and building workers, and the other of the electrical workers.

* first to declare that the industrial action that the two trade unions undertook were against the law, and

* secondly it asked the Court to order the trade unions to stop their actions, and

* third, that the Court condemns the unions to pay compensation against the loss suffered by the company.

The European Union Court had to first examine Articles 12 and 49 of the European Community and of Directive 96/71/EC of the European Parliament and the European Council on the employment of workers in the case of the provision of services in a Union country by a foreign company of another Union country.

The European Union Court of Justice decided that the European law and policy on the freedom of the provision of services in Union countries,

* to negotiate with trade unions the wages of workers sent to work in the country of the trade union, and

* to force the company to sign a collective agreement that will have more favourable conditions than those established as a minimum by law in the country of the trade union.

The European Court therefore decided the case against the Swedish trade unions and the case will now continue for damages in a Swedish Court.

The leaders of Maltese trade unions should understand that that which the European Union Court has decided also impinges on them if they feel that they should take industrial action against companies coming from other EU countries to execute contracts in our country with workers that they bring with them from their country.

The EU does not want to strengthen trade unions, but weaken them.

With the Ewro we shall leave the EU just the same

Next Saturday they are going to hold another feast, for which they invited many foreigners, to celebrate the death of the Maltese Lira and the entry instead of it on New Years day of the European Union currency, the Ewro.

We are going to have another comedy together with the others that we have already had in the propaganda campaign in favour of the Ewro.

It is going to be another occasion of a waste of the peoples money to add to the enormous expenses that were made to make the people dizzy with propaganda so as not to become aware that they are not going to gain anything by the Ewro, and how much it is going to bring, not a reduction, but an increase in the cost of living.

They told us that the introduction of the Ewro is going to increase Malta’s competitivity.

This is not true, because the introduction of the Ewro is neither going to increase our productivity nor is it going to reduce the prices of objects and services that we sell.

Foreign investment came when we had the Maltese Lira, and other countries that had not introduced the Ewro, attracted much more investment then those that have the Ewro.

When we look at Italy that has the Ewro, and France that has the Ewro, we see that the Ewro did not make their economies more stable, while Denmark, Sweden and the UK that do not have the Ewro, have more stable economies.

They would have made more good to our people if instead of useless propaganda, they explained to the people the advanytages and disadvantages of the introduction of the Ewro, and why, notwithstanding the disadvantages, it will be better for us to have the Ewro.

They would have been more honest if they had told the whole truth to the people, that the change to the Ewro is first of all a political measure that unites us politically more with the European Union.

But if they had stated this truth, they were afraid that the majority of the people would not have approved the adoption of the Ewro.

And therefore they did not hold a referendum to see whether he people wanted the adoption of the Ewro, as was done by the Swedish people who with a majority voted against the change from the Swedish Kroner to the EU Ewro.

If they thought that the adoption of the Ewro is going to barricade the road for Malta to leave the European Union, they are grossly mistaken.

Our country can still leave the Union when the majority decides to do so, even though we will have the Ewro, and if we would want to, there is nothing that will stop us from keeping the Ewro.

And as Kosovo and Montenegro are doing, that just the same they are using the Ewro as their official currency, even though they are not members of the European Union like us.

We have been four years members in the EU and neither the Government nor the Union have had the decency to give satisfaction to the Maltese people about how much expenses has membership in the Union cost us.

They do not know what transparency in relations between our country and the Union is, neither do they believe in democratic responsibility to give information to the people that from the taxes that they pay, expenses are paid as a consequence of membership in the Union.

Why all this scandalous hiding of the results of the accounts that are made each year, but are never published, notwithstanding the continuous demand for this information that the Maltese people have a right to, be given to the people?

The fact that they want to hide from the people the cost, and how much it is costing us every year, our membership in the Union, gives us reason to say that they are afraid to publish the information because it will leave a bitter taste to many Maltese and Gozitans.

If they give this information, the people will become aware how much they have lost with membership, and how much we can save expenses, and taxes to pay for the expenses, if we do not remain in the Union.

If they do not want to disclose how much is the yearly expense of membership in the Union, they cannot hide how much we pay directly to the Union each year, because we know from the official estimates that our country this year is going to pay the Union the sum of €51,245,000.

This means that during the first ten days of this year, our country has already paid the EU €1,400,000.

Even to introduce the Ewro instead of the Maltese lira we had to pay a very high price and great expense.

They did not tell us how much was the expense for the French mint to manufacture the Maltese Ewro coins for us, but we know from Government estimates, that in three years the expenses for the Committee for the adoption of the Ewro, is going to be €2,542,000.

This amount does not include the enormous expenses that had to be made to change the automatic teller machines, to adapt the computers and the cash registers in the shops, and the amount of man-hours for the prices to be changed and for the bills to be changed into Ewros.

The Central bank of Malta had to pay €3,583,000 as its share in the capital of the European Central Bank and transferred to this bank the foreign and gold reserves to the value of €36,553,000.

But the worst effect of the change to the Ewro is that it is going to increase the cost of living and is going to increase the expenses of services and production.

Therefore it is not going to help our country become more competitive neither in tourism, nor in trade, and neither in the manufacturing industry and services.

If yes, help CNI in its work so that the majority of the people would want to get rid of European Union rule.

With the Ewro we shall leave the EU just the same

The enormous expenses of membership