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CAMPAIGN FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
Was, is and shall remain in favour of Maltese workers
and against Malta's membership of the European Union
By the Campaign for National Independence CNI
How the EU does not care about workers and people
Two
examples that show how the European Union does not care what consequences there
may be on workers and people in its member states as a result of its cruel
decisions that sometimes it imposes on the governments of its member states, are
those that it has imposed on the Polish shipyards and on the Bulgarian nuclear
reactor.
The conditions that the European Union is imposing on the main Polish shipyards
in Gdansk, Gdyna and Szezercin witness the many conditions that it imposed on
the Maltese shipyards.
The European Union is ordering that these Polish shipyards must reduce their production by 40%.
This would mean the loss of 15,000 Polish workers.
If the Polish Government would not be ready to comply, then these shipyards will have to pay back the Polish Government the sum of 580 million Euros that they had previously received as aid from the Polish Government.
This
is naturally being ordered by the European Union and not because the Polish
Government wants this to happen.
This order by the European Union has brought a great dilemma for the Polish
Government and the Polish shipyards, because if production is reduced, 15,000
workers will lose their jobs and there will be a lesser chance of the shipyards
being sold to private enterprise which is interested in them because of the
great demand for shipbuilding, repair and conversion of ships which is greater
than production, or the production capacity that these shipyards have
today.
If on the other hand, the shipyards are forced to pay back the 580 million Euros they had received in subsidies, they will go bankrupt and will have to close down.
It is a case of either being raw or burned!
(A Maltese expression meaning one
extreme or the other).
The second example is of the order by the European Union which has ordered
Bulgaria to close down in 2003, two nuclear reactors that were providing a
substantial amount of electrical energy, part of which was being exported to the
Balkans, such as Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and also Romania and Montenegro.
This order had to be obeyed so that Bulgaria would be allowed to become a member of the European Union on 1 January of this year.
As
soon as it became a member, Bulgaria was ordered to close two other nuclear
reactors that had remained operative.
With the closure of the four nuclear reactors Bulgaria lost 800 megawatts of electricity that had a great effect on the production and export of electricity to Bulgaria’s neighbouring countries.
While last year (2006) Bulgaria used to export 7.6 billion Kilowatt Hours of electricity, this year it only exported 1.5 Kilowatt Hours.
The result of this was that the neighbouring countries who used to buy electricity from Bulgaria found their electricity provision reduced by 40%.
Because of this, they are suffering from big electricity cuts.
As an example, in Tirana, the capital city of Albania, electricity is cut for five hours a day.
In other Albanian cities, electricity cuts increases to seven hours a day.
While in country villages, the poor people that live in these villages remain without electricity for 15 hours a day.
Naturally,
even in those countries that we have already mentioned that used to import
electricity from Bulgaria, their people are suffering these inconveniences on a
daily basis.
You can imagine what is happening to industrial production in the factories and
in these countries with all these electricity cuts because of the European Union
DIKTAT.
How
long are they going to continue to try to fool the Maltese and Gozitan people.
What
we say to Barroso
Instead of telling Barroso to go to hell, our Members of Parliament are today going to welcome the President of the European Commission, listen to him, burn incense to him and clap for him during the Parliamentary sitting that is going to be held for him.
They ought to tell Barroso that with the European Union illegal immigrants
policy, our country is falling into a great social crisis.
Tell
him that the illegal immigrants do not want to come and stay in Malta, but want
to go to the big Union countries.
Therefore, the Union should not help us to carry their burden, but also carry
the burden by allowing us to help them go where they wanted to go when they left
their country.
We shall show Barroso that we are fed up hearing speeches about the help that the Union is going to give us for illegal immigrants.
We
do not want the Union to give us help for them, but we give to it (the EU), we
give it the illegal immigrants that come to us.
Another primary case for our country is that of the Shipyard.
Our Parliamentary Members ought to tell Barroso that the EU Shipyard plan which the EU shoved down the Government’s throat will lead to the Shipyard closure, and it is not a plan to strengthens the Shipyard.
They ought to tell him that the Union deceived the Government and the Maltese people about the Shipyard plan when the Union dictated that
* no help should be given to the Shipyard after December 2008,
* when it reduced the number of Shipyard workers, and
* the number of man-hours that can be worked every year, and
*
that because of these conditions the
Shipyard cannot make profit.
We should make it clear to Barroso that if we are forced to choose between
closing the Shipyard or leaving the Union, without hesitation we shall choose to
leave the Union so that the Shipyard can continue to employ its workers.
* with that which it is going to give to the Union each year,
* with that which it has lost from the Italian Protocol and
* with the profits from the Malta Central Bank which will now go to the Union European Central Bank,
* and with the enormous expenses that we will have to make because of our membership in the Union.
We
shall tell Barroso that it is a disgrace for the Union to rob with this method
our country that is small and poor compared to it.
We ask Barroso
* how much is the European Union going to help us to increase work and employment in our country to make good for the factories that we have lost and employment that we have lost because of the EU policy and directives?
We ask Barroso
* why does the Union want member countries to increase their military expenditure and the armaments that they have?
* For peace or for war?
* Can he assure us that the Union is not going to oblige us to enter into a war?
*
If yes, why is it building a Union army?
A
scandalous situation in the EU
It has just been announced that a law is going to be enacted in our country that protects whoever uncovers fraud or corruption in the public sector (known as whistleblowers).
This does not happen in the European Union, because the Union, instead of destroying corruption, destroys those who uncover corruption.
More
than one case is known about Union employees who, after reporting corruption
deeds, were asked to resign from their post, or were granted a pension under the
pretext that they were sick, or were discharged from office accused of breaching
their contract of employment.
The last case of an EU employee who was forcefully removed from the Union
offices because he was considered as mentally ill (“paranoid megalo-maniac”)
is that of the Portuguese employee Josè Segueira.
But Josè Segueira did not take how he was treated by the Union lying down, and presented his dismissal case before the Court.
He presented certificates from four hospitals in Court where they all declared that he was not suffering from any mental illness.
He
won his case, but the EU is going to appeal the Court decision.
A committee of the European Parliament has just issued a report wherein it is stated that the way that the Union is tackling these cases is not acceptable.
Even
among the 21,000 European Union Commission employees there is a great ferment
about this, according to what was reported in a Sunday newspaper in the UK that
said that the Union is mad to do such things.
The EU accounts situation is scandalous
For the last 12 years the auditors have refused to sign the accounts because they are not properly kept and there is no efficient control of expenditure from EU funds.
The amount of illegal and irregular expenditure is great, and this has
been stated by the President of the Auditors of the European Union, Hubert Weber
himself.
A member of the European Parliament Committee for budget control, the British
Chris Heaton-Harris, has stated that there are horrible problems in the
expenditure of Union funds that come from taxes paid by citizens of the Union
member countries.
He accused the Union that for long years it had buried its head in the sand about this problem and gave the impression that things were being corrected.
But it is not so.
And Chris Heaton-Harris commented on how can one have faith that the Union is
capable of moving forward the economic situation of Europe if it does not have
the skill to properly keep its own accounts!
A
Sunday newspaper in the UK reported that only 7% of European Union expenses were
stated by the Union auditors to have been carried out legally and correctly.
The
anti-social EU policy
A report published a few days ago showed that the minimum wage in Malta did not increase as much as the increase in inflation or as much as the cost of living had increased.
Because
of this, families that live on the minimum wage have suffered a reduction in
their standard of living.
Because if the wages do not increase as much as the increase in the cost of
living, you can buy less than you could have bought before with the wage.
Those family sectors who earn the minimum wage in our country are therefore
losing out, and those families cannot live decently.
Some of the social benefits and pensions are less than the minimum wage.
Therefore those families who only earn these benefits or these pensions cannot live decently.
If
due to the fact that the cost of living increases more than the minimum wage the
families that live with the minimum wage are getting poorer, those that live
with social benefits or pensions less than the minimum wage are getting poorer
more so.
Although
social justice orders that first and foremost we have to think about the lower
classes of society, we are not doing this when we do not increase the minimum
wage as much as the cost of living increases, and when we leave those who live
with social benefits or pension less than the minimum wage.
The European Union economic and social policy does not allow the governments of
the Union member countries to increase the government expenditure by increasing
the minimum wage, social benefits and pensions.
It
also does not allow governments to control prices to prevent the cost of living
from increasing, because the Union states that the prices are established by the
free market, free from government intervention
This is why the European Union economic and social policy is against the lower
classes of society.
It is for this reason that it is against social justice and against the principle of social solidarity, notwithstanding that the Union boasts that it is built on solidarity.
Thursday 14 June 2007
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