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The EU does not work for peace in Libya

By the Campaign for National Independence CNI

While Malta should do what it can for peace to succeed in our nearby country,

That is why our country must not continue to follow the European Union policy on the Libya issue, and although it agrees that all just changes are to be implemented in that country to have more democracy and protection of human rights, just the same not to support the violent means of the civil war for this aim to occur, which should be arrived at through negotiations and political dialogue.

With respect to Libya some of the European Union countries have shown that they are still aggressive as when in past years they used to militarily dominate their colonies, and do not find it too hard to use their military forces to interfere in the internal affairs of other countries.

Our country must not support these European Union countries if it wants to remain to be considered as being dedicated to work for peace and against war.

The European Union brought as an excuse to attack the Libyan Government that it wants to protect the Libyan civilian population, but the European Union did not take the measures to protect the Palestinian civilian population from attacks by the Israeli Government.

Our country can give the best help to the civilian population by working for fighting to stop and not by helping one side to fight the other side in a civil war.

* instead of trying to stop the fighting by being a mediator between the two sides,

* instead of insisting with the European Union to do its (Government) duty for peace to reign in neighbouring countries,

* notwithstanding that our country’s foreign policy should be in favour of neutrality

In this case of the Libyan civil war, Malta could have asserted itself with independent course of different policy from that of the European Union.

The Malta policy should have been in favour of peace by our country insisting with both sides to negotiate and not shoot at one another.

But this would have been against the policy of France and the United Kingdom, who forced the European Union to declare itself against the Libyan Government and in favour of the rebels who are considered as the Libyan civil Opposition, without the Libyans who are in favour of the Government being considered as forming part of the civilian population of this country.

Our country should not continue to participate in this exercise of hypocrisy which encourages that air attacks be made on Libya on the pretext of the protection of the civilian population.

Because the bombings that are being made night and day are causing death and injuries not only of soldiers, but also of civil persons.

If instead of bombings, the European Union carried out mediation and stopped the fighting, it would have given the greatest protection that could be given both to the civilian population, as well as the military population.

The European Union countries that chose to recognize the rebels in Benghazi as the Libyan Government instead of the Libyan Government in Tripoli, that is France and the United Kingdom, are going to do everything possible so that the other European Union countries do the same, and already the High Representative of the Foreign Affairs of the European Union, Catherine Ashton, has called for the representatives of the rebels to discuss with her their plans for the future.

The European Union is in a big confusion on the recognition of who represents the Libyan people, because two European Union countries recognize the rebels, while the other 25 European Union members still consider the Libyan Government in Tripoli as the legitimate Government of Libya.

France and Italy do not want to accept that there will be a cease fire and agreement between the two sides in Libya, because for them the Libyan Government in Tripoli no longer exists and therefore it will not be in favour of allowing the government to govern the country.

If the European Union is not going to be against the French and Italian policy, it is not going to be in favour of an agreement that allows the Libyan Government in Tripoli to continue governing the country.

This means that Malta, if it continues to follow the European Union policy with respect to Libya, should not expect that there will be an agreement with the Libyan Government in Tripoli, and therefore, this would mean either that the civil war continues to linger, or that Libya is split, with the Eastern part remaining under the rebels and the Western part remain governed by the Libyan Government.

Whether the civil war lingers on for some time, as well as if the country is split, our country will be the loser because the Maltese interests in Tripoli will be prejudiced by the policy that the Maltese Government has followed with respect to the Libyan Government, according to what it has been told to do by the European Union, without in this manner having neither approved and neither condemned its actions.

Malta could have influenced the Libyan Government to arrive at an agreement with the rebels and to accept changes that introduce democracy and fundamental human rights.

Thus Malta would have given the greatest protection to all the Libyan civil population.

The European Union shirks from solidarity in the case of immigration

Again the European Union has shown that it does not implement the principle of solidarity that it so much boasts about when in the last few days it did not accept to implement the emergency mechanism about the thousands of immigrants from the North African countries that are arriving in Italy and also in Malta.

Many Italian politicians harshly condemned the EU that it did not agree to distribute the thousands of immigrants among all the member countries, ad Malta and Italy had requested.

Some of the Italian politicians had insisted that Italy should leave the EU, and the President of the European Commission, Barroso, felt that he had to calm the situation by showing sympathy with Italy.

The Maltese Government has long been insisting that it was battling with the EU for the immigrants’ burden to be shared among all the countries, and therefore the EU rejection is a great defeat for it.

As consolation, the Government says that it has gained because the EU has accepted to implement a pilot project for Malta with which member countries voluntarily offer to take some immigrants from Malta.

But in the immigrants issue there is a need for the Government to speak clearly with the people and not continue to deceive them.

First, we should tell our people that the obligation that we have is that the duty that we have to do everything possible to save people from drowning, will never be neglected.

But we should also quickly tell them that the obligation to save them from drowning does not also mean that we have to keep them in our country.

The issue is not whether we should save the immigrants from drowning, but whether we keep them in our country after saving them.

The second point that we should make clear to the people is that the problem of illegal immigrants in our country has been brought by our membership in the European Union.

If we had not become EU members, we would not be bound by EU regulations that oblige us to keep the illegal immigrants in our country.

That is why when the government says that God forbid had we not been in the Union, it would be deceiving the people because it is precisely because we have become Union members, we are shackled that we cannot allow the illegal immigrants to go where they wanted to go, and where they wish to go in the EU.

The illegal immigrants do not want to come and remain in our country, and if we allow them, they would go to the other EU countries.

The greatest service that we could give them is to allow them to go to the other EU countries.

But the EU does not allow us to do so and forcefully want us to keep them in our country.

That is why we must explain to our people that this problem of thousands of illegal immigrants in our country is another bad result of our EU membership.

The third point in the illegal immigrants issue refers to our relations with the European Union.

If the EU continues not to accept to distribute the immigrants that come to our country among all its member countries, Malta must not accept to continue to stop the immigrants from going to the other EU countries.

Therefore if the EU continues not to accept the principle to allow the immigrants to go to the other EU countries Malta must not continue to accept to stop the illegal immigrants from going to the other EU countries.

But the illegal immigrants’ problem merits to be looked into with more thought.

The immigrants are suffering great sufferings and frequently lose their life, after having paid money to try to arrive in an EU country.

If they succeed in arriving, they find themselves locked up in detention centres for some time, and afterwards, left without a roof on their head and without work, or given badly paid work.

Probably many immigrants disappoint themselves that they have not found the living conditions that they expected to find in the EU.

Because the EU, while not wanting to put obstacles for the illegal immigrants, it is not facilitating their life by providing them with work and decent accommodation.

Once the EU countries are not in a position to employ the illegal immigrants, they would know that once they arrive in the EU countries they are going to be sent back, they are not going to be ready to pay their money and risk their life uselessly.

On the other hand, the more the EU insists that the illegal immigrants must be kept in the countries that they had gone to and must not be sent back, there will be more immigrants who would be ready to pay money to try their luck and arrive at some EU country.

At the same time it must be said that the EU has a great need of immigrants because in many member country the population is being reduced and because the expansion of economic activity requires a greater number of workers than the country has.

That is why immigration is important for the EU and the EU need to organize, with agreement with the countries that need more workers, a system where these immigrants would contribute to society.

In any case, our country cannot be of help neither to the EU nor to the immigrants, because probably our country has more people than it can provide work for, and the financial resources are also scarce, and therefore is not in a position to give financial aid to help the other countries in immigration.

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

Please sign the popular petition to the Maltese Parliament to take the necessary measure to curb illegal immigration in our country

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