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

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

‘Downsizing’ with the aim of destroying the Shipyard

On 11 February, a month before the General Election, the Prime Minister Gonzi, in a television broadcast organized by the Public Broadcasting Authority, insisted that there was no plan to downsize the Shipyard.

In a letter sent to the Shipyard workers before the Election Gonzi assured them of the work in the future.

But on 18 June, three months after the Election, the Prime Minister, in a press conference went back on his assurances and announced the first

That is why Gonzi did not keep his word that there was not going to be any Shipyard downsizing and therefore lost his credibility with the workers.

The requirement for tradesmen

For the Shipyard to operate correctly, it has to have the tradesmen that it required to contract big works.

The volume of work that the Shipyard presently makes forces it to engage around 300 casuals all the time.

If it reduces the number of present tradesmen the Shipyard shall have to reduce the amount of work that it presently makes and thus will be weakened not strengthened.

A wharf for every dock

For the Shipyard to operate at a profit it requires a wharf so that when a ship is taken out of the dock where work had been carried out, further work can continue afloat.

The Shipyard will make a loss if for work that can be made afloat the ship is instead kept in the dock.

Because it will be preventing another ship from being docked while work afloat can continue of the first ship.

It shall therefore be a loss for the Shipyard if Boiler Wharf which is essential to continue work on ships previously docked in number three dock is taken away from it.

Every foot of wharf is priceless for the Shipyard and the more a shipyard had wharfs the more it can do work at the same time.

To reduce a wharf from the Shipyard means that you want to reduce the amount of work it can carry out.

The Tank Cleaning Farm

The Malta Shipyard is at the center of the routes of thousands of ships and tankers that cross the Mediterranean and therefore it has the opportunity of being given work that ships tankers require from time to time.

Many have to be cleaned from the oils and gases before work can be made on them.

This cleaning is carried out by the Shipyard at the Ricasoli Tank Cleaning Farm which is extremely useful to the Shipyard.

The Shipyard has been finding many obstacles to use the Tank Cleaning Farm because the Government has long been trying to involve a private contractor to carry out the work instead of the Shipyard.

Now the Government has decided that the Shipyard is to lose the work carried out at the Ricasoli Tank Cleaning Farm and with this move it is going to reduce the Shipyard work and income for the contractor to enjoy the profits of the work from cleaning ships and tankers from oils and gases instead of the work continuing to be carried out by the Shipyard.

Plan to destroy the Shipyard

Those versed in the Shipyard work and who are genuine in their opinions condemn the three decisions taken by the Gonzi Government,

The three measures are intended to implement a plan to destroy the Shipyard, with damage to our country that requires that the Shipyard be strengthened and trains more tradesmen that an advanced and industrialized country requires if it wants to continue to develop economically without having to depend on foreign tradesmen.

The Government has more income than losses from the Shipyard

It is not true what was stated that the Maltese exchequer has lost around €100 million since Malta Shipyards Ltd was set up in 2003.

If the government has spent 100 hundred million Ewros for the wages paid to the workers from 2003, the Government recovered more than that amount directly from taxes and social security contributions.

If we take the wages total that was paid to the company workers as 300 million Ewros, out of which, 100 million Ewros were paid by the Government, the Government had an income of 20% from the wages as Social Security contributions (10% paid by the workers and 10% by the company on the wages paid by the company).

The Government thus had an income of 60 million Ewros (20% of 300 million) Ewros of Social Security contributions.

From the 300 million Ewros paid as wages, after deducting the 30 million Ewros workers contributions, these had 270 million Ewros left in their pockets.

If the Shipyard workers paid an average of 10% income tax, the government had another income of 27 million Ewros from them in income tax.

If the Shipyard workers, after paying income tax, had 243 million Ewros (270 million – 27 million) left, let’s say that they spent half the sum, that is 121.5 million Ewros in products and services on which was paid VAT at 18%.

This means that the Shipyard workers paid the Government 21.87 million Ewros in VAT.

Thus for 100 million Ewros that the Government spent for the Shipyard workers wages, the Government took back 60 million Ewros in Social Security contributions, 27 million Ewros in income tax, and 21.87 Ewros in VAT, totaling 108.876 million Ewros.

It spent 100 million Ewros and had an income of 108.87 million Ewros when 300 million Ewros were paid as wages to the Shipyard workers. The Maltese exchequer was the better off by 8.87 million Ewros.

We agree with President Nicolas Sarkozy

By Eddy Privitera

After the trashing that the European Union Gods received in Brussels by the Irish “no” vote and the news that even the Czech Republic will probably not ratify the Lisbon Treaty, there was also the news that shocked the European Commission and more so the French President, Nicolas Sarkozy and his Government that on 1 July tool the Presidency of the European Union – that the Polish President, Kaczynski, is not ready to sign the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty.

The reaction of the French President was the most important due to the fact that France has the Presidency of the European Union, Sarkozy said that

“it appears that something is wrong in the European Union. And the citizens of the European Union appear that they are doubting in the European Union”.

We, the CNI certainly agree with Nicolas Sarcozy’s words, especially when he said that there is a need for the European Union to be newly re-built.

We say, however, that the rebuild will have to be with the approval of the peoples of the member states and not the same thing happening again – behind the backs of the citizens and approved only by the politicians.

If this is not done, the great project of the building of Europe shall certainly end up on the rocks again as happened to the European Union Constitution and the Lisbon Treaty.

When are the European politicians Lords – including the Maltese politicians - going to understand that they are in the different parliaments of the same members to represent the will of their people, and not do as they please notwithstanding that we frequently hear them say that they “want to be near the citizen”.

Malta has exceeded 75% of the EU Gross Domestic Product

We have read this bit of news in the newspaper Malta Today Mid-Week of 15 June.

It means that should Malta’s Gross Domestic Product be at this level, or probably more than this, in the year 2013, a great part of the structural funds that we receive from the European Union will have to stop.

And thus Malta will start paying to the European Union much more than it receives.

* the profits that we are losing from the Central Bank after we had introduced the Ewro,

* the subsidies that are being paid by the Government in the agricultural sector and

* the millions that it is having to spend to sustain the structures that it has created because of European Union membership (hundreds of civil servants in Malta and outside Malta) etc,

It is therefore only a dream that in the European in future the Maltese people will be living better than when we had our own destiny in our hands, instead of being a ruled country as it is today.

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