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These last few days the leaders of the countries in the Euro Zone met urgently to discuss what has to be done for the euro not to continue to become weaker and fail.

The news of the need for the meeting to save the euro shocked many who always used to brag how strong the euro currency was.

Now it was found that it is like other currencies that it replaced, subject to the pressure of financial speculators who control vast funds on the international financial markets.

In today’s euro crisis, we are becoming aware that with the establishment of the Euro Zone we have created a greater problem than that which the currencies of the 16 member countries that had adopted the euro had to face previously.

Previously, when a country was hit by a crisis and its currency became weaker, the problem used to be limited to that country only and the 15 other countries would not have been hit with the crisis.

Now it has been found that a crisis in one of the 16 euro countries is a problem for the other 15 Euro Zone countries and for the euro not to become weaker, the other 15 countries have to help that country that is hit by the crisis.

That is a crisis in a single euro country is a crisis for all the Euro Zone countries, including Malta.

Today we can see the disadvantages our country suffered whet it bound the destiny of its currency with what happens to the finances of the other countries that have the same euro currency.

The bad financial situation of the four countries,

* Greece,

* Spain,

* Portugal

* and Italy

 is the cause of the fall in the euro currency value.

The strength of our money does not depend on the economic and financial situation of our country, but it depends upon the situation of a foreign country or a number of foreign countries.

And we can do nothing, neither to strengthen our currency nor to stop it from becoming weaker.

We trusted our luck in other’s hands.

This is the great disadvantage that we have suffered                                 

* with the adoption of the euro                                                                     

* instead of the Malta Lira                                                                          

* because whenever there is a crisis in another country that has the euro

* weakens its value,                                                                                      

* it weakens the value of our money.                                                           

This would not have happened to us had we kept the Malta Lira,

* because when the currency of another country would become weaker,

* probably the Malta Lira would have increased in value

* when compared to that currency.

In this respect it’s good to remind you what happened in the years when our currency was tied to the British sterling.

When sterling became weaker, the Malta Lira used to become weaker with it.

But when we cut off the link between the Malta Lira and the British sterling,

* when sterling was devalued,

* the Malta Lira not only did not devalue

* but even became stronger than sterling,

* until it was such that the Malta Lira was valued at more than one and a half time the British sterling.

Apart from the Malta Lira being strong,                                

* with careful management and with Mintoff’s wisdom,       

* our country used to always increase exports and tourism,

* while in these two sectors,                                                   

* when we became members in the Euro Zone,                    

* we lost and fell back.                                                           

When we had the Malta Lira                                                                  

* we opened many factories,                                                                  

* established the social state,                                                                

* gave pensions,                                                                                     

* made education                                                                                    

* and health free,                                                                                    

* we built housing estates around Malta and Għawdex                        

* and this notwithstanding we did not only not increase national debt,

* but we saved and overflowed reserves with foreign currencies.          

Since we adopted the euro,                                           

* the high cost of living                                                

* and the increase expenses                                        

* and in tariffs                                                               

* and national debt continued to increase every year

* and ended up reaching €4 billion.                              

Gonzi and the euro propagandists used to tell us that thank God that we adopted the euro to save ourselves.

Today in the crisis that the euro has found itself, whoever is serious says that we were wrong to adopt the euro and that it would have been better had we kept the Malta Lira because we would not have been hit with today’s euro crisis.

Today the euro needs someone to save it and the leaders of the Euro Zone countries are scratching their heads what to do to save the euro.

The have arrived at establishing a euro stabilization fund. Our country was hard hit with the euro crisis.

In the case of Greece, Malta is going to spend €74 million on a number of years.

For the euro stabilization fund, Malta is going to spend between €350 million and €400 million.

This means that Malta is going to help save the euro and not the euro saved Malta.

Our country shall have to contract debt for these amounts for the euro to be saved, because it does not have money saved from where we can loan others.

Had we not adopted the euro, we would not have had to enter into the burden of debt for these amounts that together amount to between €460 million and €510 million.

The bad economic and financial situation of many of the European Union countries (EU) and the measures that the EU took to try to buffer the economic crisis that the EU is in, have uncovered how the EU economic policy is defective and not suitable for many of the member countries.

It showed how many of the social problems that the EU has, are the fruit of the mistaken economic policy.

The biggest EU social problem is the unemployment of more than 23 million workers without work in all the member countries.

The EU is against the policy that the state assures work for all by providing work for all those that the private sector does not employ.

Because the EU insists that the state should reduce the cost of its employment and should interfere in the least amount to create work that the EU insists should be regulated by the free market without state interference.

The EU also always insisted that the EU states do not have enough of the vast financial means required to keep up with the expenses that would be required for the state to assure work for everyone.

The measures that the governments of the EU countries took to try to overcome the economic crisis and to save the euro currency from bankruptcy reduce to nothing the excuses of lack of enough finances required to provide work for everyone in the EU.

Because for the banks and the big companies not to go bankrupt the EU permitted the governments of the member states to spend not millions, but massive billions of euros.

For Greece to be helped, the EU member countries are going to spend billions of euros so that together with the International Monetary Fund Greece can be given a loan of €110 billion.

For the euro currency not to fail, the Euro Zone member countries are going to be asked to spend €440 billion and the EU gives another €60 billion from its funds.

That is why the EU member states found hundreds of billions of euros required so that in times of financial crisis help the banks and the big companies.

They are also going to help Greece and the other EU countries that may find themselves in crisis like Greece.

So the governments of the EU member countries and the Union itself had the required financial means, but did not want to use them, to provide work for everyone.

They had the required financial means for this main social purpose, but the EU policy does not agree with the principle that work must be created for everyone.

Instead of this, the EU was happy to see unemployment explode upwards to more than 23 million workers and the sufferings that this brings with it to their families and social trouble.

The EU does not want to understand                                               

* that the expenses that the state incurs                                        

* to assure work for everyone                                                         

* are not superfluous expenses,                                                      

* but an investments that renders to the state                               

* because it creates more spending that increases commerce,     

* and because it saves the state from an even bigger expense     

* in the payment of social benefits to the thousands unemployed,

* apart from reducing social trouble                                                

* and does not let poverty spread in the country.                           

After all,                                                                            

* the principle that everyone works,                              

* is the implementation of a fundamental human right, 

* and the recognition of the dignity of the human being

* that he can only acquire through work                        

* with which he can live a decent life                              

* and maintain his family,                                                

* not with state charity.                                                    

After all, the history of every country teaches us that countries that failed economically and financially were not those that provided work for everyone.

They were countries that spent their money on projects that did not give back enough return to justify the expenses that they made on these projects.

With work for everyone, the country will be exploiting the best resource that the country has, which is the human resources, the ability and work of the workers that are the best means to increase the wealth of the countries.

This is the CNI’s social belief                

* which is against the EU’s social belief

* that has failed socially,                        

* and which is also failing economically.

(We are publishing what Charles Micallef wrote because we believe that he is expressing the fear of many, although we know that there are many who do not agree)

Everyone knows that Greece does not have the money from where to pay back with commercial interests the loans that the other euro Zone countries are going to give it to save it from drowning, including the EU itself.

The British Government did well when it stayed out of the Euro Zone and thus is not going to give anything to Greece.

Look what happened to Malta because it has entered into the Euro Zone,

* it is going to have to make good for Greece with £27 million,                  

* with commercial rates according to what Gonzi said,                                

* to make good for the mistakes and deceit of the previous government,  

* of the Conservative Karamanlis.                                                                

Had not Fenech Adami maddened the Maltese              

* to commit national suicide                                            

* and enter into the EU                                                    

* and into the Euro zone,                                                 

* then these £27 million would have remained in Malta

* and be spent for the benefit of the Maltese people    

* for social services,                                                        

* health services,                                                             

* Mater Dei Hospital,                                                     

* medicines,                                                                      

* education,                                                                      

* factories,                                                                        

* increase in the national minimum wage                       

* and other spending for the Maltese poor                    

* and for children under care orders.                              

Had we remained out of the European Union and the Euro Zone we would have kept that money for us Maltese.

And it is not only this.

Probably we will have to give the same sum    

* to Spain,                                                          

* to Portugal and                                               

* to Ireland,                                                       

* and to every other country in the Euro Zone

* that is going to end up like Greece.              

Until Malta become bankrupt.

If Malta already has around £4 billion national debt,

* how can it give £27 million to every country in the Euro Zone

* that will end up like Greece that used to live beyond her means?

Can we say that we the Maltese people are going to be taxed without any pity to help the EU not to fail and call it a day?

Congratulation Eddie Fenech Adami what you made us members of! So that is why you used to tell us money no problem and ten million here and ten million there do not make a difference. 

There was another one with him who had said tat today’s debt will be paid by tomorrow by our children.

And how come that no one knows where the Fairmount ship £20 million end up?

How come that no one knows the millions for the new power stations are going to end up?

Since Greece cannot pay back the debt that it presently has, how can it pay back all those millions that the Euro zone countries are going to loan her with commercial interests?

From where is it going to pay them?

When are we going to have our money back?

In never year?!

We can say without any fear or hesitation that Malta is going to give a grant to Greece of €27 million.

As probably it is going to have to give

* to Spain,

* to Portugal,

* Ireland

* and to others who used to live beyond their means.

And in the meantime we continue to be skinned alive and take care of thousands of illegal immigrants.

Thursday 13 May, 2010

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

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