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and against Malta's membership of the European Union

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

It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union

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More punishment is coming upon us from the European Union.

After colluding with the Government of Malta

* the European Union destroyed the trades University,

* the Shipyard,

* with its 1,7000 workers

* and the national sea transport company,

* Sea Malta,

* now appears that it also wants to destroy the national airline company,

* Air Malta,

* and its 1,500 employees.

As he had done with the Shipyard workers,      

* the Prime Minister prior to the last election,

* promised the Air Malta employees,              

* security in their employment.                         

Now their employment is threatened

* because the European Union does not want

* that Air Malta be given aid

* that it needs to overcome it difficulties,

* due to the losses that it’s incurring.

While the European Union allows the Maltese government to give aid to low cost airlines to operate to Malta, the European Union does not want the Government to give help to Air Malta.

The European Union also does not oppose that the Government spends millions in advertising for tourists to come to our country.

But it objects that the government gives financial aid to Air Malta which carries tourists to Malta.

As if the tourists transport means do not form part of the tourism industry that the European Union permits to be subsidized by the Government.

Apart from the important issue whether it is in the national interest that the State subsidizes the national air line, there is the big issue on whether the European Union should interfere with the Maltese Government by not allowing it to do whatever it deems necessary in the national interest.

There is no doubt that the government knows much better than the European Union what is better for our country.

Neither is there any doubt that the Government represents the will of the Maltese people and not the European Union.

If the Government feels that it should give financial aid                                   

* to Air Malta according to the will of the Maltese people,                             

* what right does the European Union have                                                      

* to stop the Government to act according to the will of the Maltese people?

The EU does not want the Government to help Air Malta

* not because the aid would be damaging to the country,

* but because it insists that state aid

* gives an advantage to the Maltese airline company

* on the foreign companies that compete with it.

Because for the EU the principle of free competition is supreme over the national interests of the country while for the Maltese people their national interests come before the principle of competition with foreigners.

On this issue the Maltese people cannot and must never agree with the EU.

And if the EU continues to be hard-headed and does not allow the Maltese Government to help Air Malta, the Maltese people should defy the European Union and do according to what they think is better for the country.

It is shameful for the Maltese people that to invest new capital in the national airline Air Malta, the Government has to go to get permission from the European Union.

The new capital that the Government wants to invest in Air Malta is not coming from European Union funds.

It is coming from the Maltese peoples’ taxes and therefore the government should satisfy how it is going to invest the capital to the Maltese people and not to the European Union.

To the European Union,

* the Maltese people should tell it

* that that it is better to explain to them

* why it is sucking from them

* €66.5 million this year

* and €68 million next year,

* when this year the country is going to end up with a loss of €237.7

* and next year is going to end up with a loss of another €181.8 million,

* according to the official Government estimates.

It is shameful that the representatives of the people

* hide these facts from the people

* about what the European Union is taking from us,

* and instead they brag

* with the funds coming from the European Union,

* without showing that the European Union

* is giving us funds from the amounts of money

* that our country itself is giving it every year.

The blame that the European Union has with its policy which denies State aid because of its ideology of free competition is threatening the life of Air Malta, does not exculpate the Government from the great tort that it has with its bad management and which brought it dire situation in which it is.

The bad Government management and the political appointments that it made of incompetent persons to manage companies, cursed the useful peoples investment, which during past years used to milk money.

Malta is paying the European Union €186,00 every day.

Notwithstanding that the political parties in our country are in favour of the European Union, many Maltese and Gozitans do not agree with the European Union and are against Malta’s membership in the European Union.

There are thousands of workers and employees against the European Union who have lost their jobs after our country became a European Union member.

They are finding it difficult to keep up with the cost of living due to the vast increase in prices and in tariffs and the cost of living expenses.

Turning against the European Union

* are many youths who are preparing to get married a

* nd are facing enormous expenses

* to furnish their home

* and very high rents that they cannot pay,

* all the result of the liberalization

* that the European Union membership brought with it.

Many are disappointed that with EU membership

* exports decreased not increased,

* national debt continued to increase every year and not decreased,

* and the standard of living of many families was lowered not increased,

* and the moral values of the people went backwards, not strengthened.

In the face of all this, our hope is that the majority of the people will pressure the political leaders so that like us they will feel that our country will be managed better if it is not bound by the EU regulations, and if it is free to implement from the EU policies and regulations only that which is good for our country.

The political leaders should not continue living the lie

* that our country benefits financially from European Union membership,

* and should admit the truth to the people

* that the payments to the European Union

* and the expenses that our country has to incur because of membership,

* are much more than the funds that they receive from the EU.

The political leaders should tell the people

* that countries that are not members in the EU,

* and therefore are not shackled by its policies

* and regulations,

* are given huge financial aid

* by it without making any payments to it.

The EU has concluded agreements with many countries, among them Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt, that it gives them huge millions of euros every year for a number of years, according the EU friendship policy with neighbouring countries.

If it does not remain a member in the European Union, Malta could be given funds by the European Union as are given to those countries touching the EU.

Nothing is going to hold Malta back, if it will be out of the EU, from implementing whatever is beneficial to it from the EU policies and adopt those EU regulations that are considered beneficial for our country.

How the European Union management is confused appears from what is happening in the discussions about its Budget for 2011.

The European Commission proposed that the Budget be increased to €130.2 billion.

The European Parliament voted in favour of an increase of 6.2% on this years’ budget.

Now the European Council of the member countries leaders decided that the increase next year should be 2.9% on the 2010 budget and therefore the budget will be €126.6 billion.

Discussions are going to be held between the representative of the European Parliament and those from the European Council to find a compromise, which is being said is going to mean an increase of 4.5% on this years’ budget.

In the European Council the big countries which are contributing most to the European Union than they are receiving from it, held strongly for the budget increase to be small, while the other countries want it to be greater, apart from Malta which supported the countries contributing most.

If one takes the case of the UK, with an increase of 2.9%, its contribution to the EU is increased by £430 million every year.

Malta’s contribution increases by about €2 million if the increase is of 2.9% and about €4 million if the increase is 6.2%

Now it is known that those member countries who receive more funds from the European Union than they contribute to it, will be better off if the EU budget is increased, because this will increase the amount of funds that they receive from it more than the incraese in their contributions that they pay to the European Union.

Therefore when the Maltese Prime Minister signed that the increase in the EU budget should be limited to 2.9%, he revealed that in fact Malta is paying more to the EU than it is receiving from it.

Had this not been so, the Prime Minister would have voted for the increase to be greater because our country would have received more funds than we would receive if the increase is smaller.

Malta’s contribution would increase by about €2 million every year if the increase was of 2.9% and about €4 million if the increase was 6.2%.

One of the reasons for which many object for the increase of the European Union budget is that te budget ios too big and very complex, and because of this there is a lack of organization as well as a lot of wastage.

In fact, the EU auditors themselves refised for 16 years continuously to sign the expenses accounts that the European Union had made, because they found out that the biggest two sectors of expenses of the European Union, which are the agricultural funds and the regional funds, are vitiated by great mistakes (material errors).

Notwithstanding this, Sidona Jedrzejewska, the Polish European Parliament Member who was in charge of preparing a report on the budget is insisting that the European Union needs to increase the budget if it wants to implement its new aims and initiatives, such as the setting up of the European External Action Service for the implementation of the EU common foreign policy, which is led by Lady Ashton.

If the negotiations on the budget increase between the European Parliament representatives and those of the European Council that are going to be held during this month fail, next year’s budget will remain of the same amount as this year.

One should be reminded that Malta’s contribution to the EU increased every year during the seven years EU membership.

According to the Government Official Estimates,

* during 2009 our country paid the EU

* €5.3 more than it paid in 2008,

* and this year our country is going to pay €9.9 million more

* than it had paid in 2009.

Next year our country is going to pay €68 million,

that is, €1.5 million more than it paid this year.

Thus, during eight year EU membership, Malta is going to have paid the EU a total of €444 million.

Apart from the €444 million paid to the EU,

* Malta is also going to pay €74 million

* as its share of the bail-out for Greece,

* and is going to guarantee between €350 million and €40 million

* to the fund set up of €740 billion

* from which other EU countries will be helped

* if they find themselves in financial difficulties.

Many insist that in the EU budget issue Malta spoke with two voices.

While the Maltese Prime Minister in the European Council showed that he wanted the increase to be not more than 2.9%, the Maltese representatives in the European Parliament voted for the budget to increase by 6.2%.

One should here ask who is representing the will of the Maltese people, the Prime minister of the five members of the European Parliament

Thursday 11 November 2010.

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