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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

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

It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union

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We say it straight.

We do not agree that our country integrates itself more in the European Union.

Because we believe that the Union policy is wrong, its leadership is corrupt, and because we want our people to be free to decide how it is governed and not led by the Union.

For us, it is better to live in the poorest country but free than in the best country but a Union colony.

For us the neo-liberalist capitalist policy of the European Union is fundamentally anti-social.

It increases the inequalities in society by making poorer those who already have little, and makes richer those who have enough.

It sows egoism and dampens the spirit of solidarity.

It is not based on moral ethics, but is led by the market jungle and spurred by the greed for profit.

We see its results

* in the destruction of the environment,

* the widespread unemployment,

* the degradation of cities,

* the moral decadence,

* the disappearance of values,

* unchecked consumerism

* and drugged youths.

This is the world that the European Union gives us.

We do not want it for the Maltese people because we respect them more.

Presently we are facing two other big problems which membership in the European Union and the adoption of the Euro have brought up for us.

We have the two biggest enterprises in our country, ST Microelectronics and the Shipyard threatened.

The Euro exchange rate is causing havoc with the ST Microelectronics sales in the American Dollar markets that are values with the Euro.

If the country is not ready to defy the European Union rules and gives aid to this enterprise, we will end up losing it, lose 2,200 jobs and half the country’s exports.

The same applies to the Shipyard.

If due to the European Union rules on competition the country does not give the required aid to the Shipyard, we will lose the best training school for tradesmen in our country and 1,700 jobs.

Our country needs the Shipyard much more than it needs the European Union.

For the European Union the loss of around 4,000 jobs mean nothing.

For us every job is important to be saved.

This is how different we think differently than what the European Union thinks about the workers jobs, and therefore we can never agree with it.

For the European Union the rules of competition and the free market are better than the workers jobs and from the requirements of the country for tradesmen.

It does not put work and jobs before competition and profit, and does consider that the country requirements come before the free market.

Because the neo-liberal policy of the European Union does not want to consider that it is the duty of the government to assure work for everyone in the country, as it has the duty to provide education for everyone and the cure for illnesses for everyone.

On the contrary, we believe that where the private economy does not create enough work for everyone, the state is duty bound to provide work so that no one will remain unemployed.
 

In the same manner we oppose the European Union policy that taxes to the hilt oil products, because by doing so it continues to increase their prices more than they are already very high on the market.

The Union does not care about the damage that it causes the industries that depend heavily on oil products in its member countries when they are competing with similar producers who are outside the Union and who do not tax oil products as the Union does.

The consequences of the Union policy on oil products are two,

* the closure of factories

* and the loss of jobs,

* and a higher cost of living for the citizens,

* consumers of products involving the use of oil

* and of the rates of electricity consumption.

The Union does not care anything about all this.

Neither does it appear that they care about these damaging consequences  of the bad European Union policy those politicians who brag that they believe in it so much that they are ready to sacrifice for them their independence, freedom and sovereignty of their country and their people. We shall never agree with this.

The present Shipyard financial situation is going to influence the European Union and the Maltese Government in the decisions that are to be taken for its future.

The CNI believes that the present Shipyard financial situation is in the greater part a direct consequence of the exceptional losses caused by the disastrous Fairmount conversions.

That is why the CNI is fully supporting the insistent call of the Shipyard workers so that without any delay a public impartial inquiry is held in which the representatives of the taxpayers take part, for the many disturbing facts about that contract and which up to now have been kept hidden from the Maltese public and from the European Union to become known.

The first fact that has to be established is that the Fairmount contract was the work of Graham Crouser that the Shipyard engaged as a Marketing Manager for three years, but after only six months was sent free from all responsibility for what he had done.

On this the first questions that the Minister responsible for the Shipyard, Austin Gatt, arise and who should not continue not to answer.

What experience did Crouser have to negotiate a contract of the type of the Fairmount conversion that involved

* very extensive work,

* many pipe-work modifications,

* installation of facilities for accommodation,

* a massive installation of high tension cable,

* and various other works?

The Minister is expected to give requested information on Crousers’ experience for this work.

In the second place, why are the contract conditions for the engagement of Graham Crouser being kept hidden from the taxpayers who after all are making good for Crouser’s expense?

Another important fact about the Fairmount contract is that the General Workers Union insisted that Maltese managers who had been involved in drafting the contract conditions were purposely left out of the contract negotiations, that is,

* the Commercial Manager,

* the Project Manager,

* the Planning Managers and

* the Production Manager.

Although in “Il-Ġens Illum” of 10 May the General Workers Union again categorically denied this.

Therefore in the interest of the Maltese public and for the benefit of the European Union, this fact should be investigated so as to establish why the Maltese managers who are normally involved in contracts taken by the Shipyard were purposely left out.

There is then another fact about this contract that in the pubic interest and for the benefit of the European Union should be known and requires that an explanation be given for it.

In this contract the Shipyard agreed about liquidated damages, which means that the Shipyard accepted beforehand that in case that the work lags behind, the Shipyard pays the client an agreed sum for damages as much as the profit that the client would have made if the work had been completed in time and he had used the ship.

Not only the Shipyard normally does not accept an agreement about liquidated damages up front, but in the Fairmount case, a binding such as this should not have been made because the work was very extensive and complicated, and the greater part was a prototype that the Shipyard had never made before.

The CNI is insisting about this fact because from information that was acquired, it appears that the Shipyard lost 2,600,000 Euro in liquidated damages on the Fairmount contract.

It is in the public interest that Minister Gatt states who is responsible for this very disturbing fact.

In these exceptional circumstances Minister Gatt should not continue to deny to hold a public impartial inquiry for all the facts about the Fairmount contract to become known.

It is not just that the Shipyard workers be blamed for the great losses that the Shipyard suffered and is going to suffer due to the Fairmount conversion works.

More so this is not just when the same workers

* suffered with the excessive heat that they had to work in,

* with the massive smell of welding and paint,

* with the handling of all the heavy material,

* and after racking their brains to see how they can do and produce the work

even where they did not have precise drawings and guidelines.

That is why the CNI believes that the Shipyard workers are right a hundred times over to insist that the whole truth become known in this case, to the general public, by means of a public impartial inquiry in which the representatives of the public taxpayers take part.

How can someone who has nothing to hide not accept this very just demand? Are the Parliamentary members not going to say anything about this?

Thursday 12 June 2008

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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