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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

See this Europen Parliament video that we can leave

In Malta we need to buy everything from outside the country.

To have the means to do so, we have to earn foreign currency from the products and services that we sell to foreigners.

The income from exports is therefore required for our living bcause without it we cannot pay for the importation we need to live.

Once the export of services and products is required for us, we should see that it does not lack.

To ensure this, we should give all help and incentives that our industries need to export their products and services.

Following our membership in the European Union, the export of products decreased, notwithstanding that we entered into a market of around 500 million.

This happened because the Union regulations

* do not allow us to give aid and incentives

* that the Union considers to be to their advantage

* with respect to their competitors

* in the other European Union countries,

* and because membership in the European Union

* has greatly increased the production expenses

* and thus reduced our competitivity.

The decrease in exports

* caused by the European Union membership

* caused us great loss of employment

* and increased our unemployment problem,

* at the same time that it decreased our foreign currency income for the cuontry

* and the amount of taxes collected by the Government

* and of the Social Security contributions,

* while the social security benefits for the unemployed workers increased,

* but trade has decreased

* because consumption by unemployed wageless workers decreased.

The negative consequences of European Union membership

* on our productive industry

* are greater than the decrease in exports,

* because the European Union regulations

* do not allow us to protect our industries

* that produce for the local market

* with aid to help them compete

* with imported products.

Therefore, after we have become Union members, one can say that almost all industries that uised to produce for the local market were destroyed.

The destruction of industries for the local market

* meant more job losses,

* increase in unemployment,

* lower consumption,

* less collection of taxes

* and Social Security contributions,

* and more social benefits payments.

With all these bad effects of the destruction of our industry for the local market, Union membership has caused us other damages.

Instead of Maltese products, consumers had to buy imported ones.

This means more money getting out of our country

* that was previously spent on Maltese products

* and used to circulate in the local economy.

Greater importation also means more work for the workers in the countries that we import from instead of the work that Maltese workers used to do to produce for the local market.

Therefore,

* when the European Union does not allow us to aid

* industries for the Maltese market,

* it is causing Maltese workers to lose their work

* and at the same time giving it to the workers in the other European Union countries

* who export their products to us.

Let’s take the Dockyard example that was an important part of the services industry in our country.

It was said that in one year the Dockyard used to make 40 million euro work for foreign clients.

This money all used to come from outside Malta,

* and after deducting the part that covered materials imported from abroad,

* the rest of the amount used to go to pay for the workers wages.

These millions paid in wages used to be spent in our country’s economy.

The Government used to take 10 per cent of  the wage

* as Social Security contributions,

* it used to get another share from Income Tax

* that used to be directly deducted from wages,

* and used to collect another amount from the VAT at 18%

* on products and services bought by the Dockyard workers with their wages.

This money that used to come from payments

* made by foreign clients that used to pay the Dockyard

* is lost to the country,

* to the Government,

* to the workers themselves,

* and to the Maltese traders

* who used to sell their products and services

* to the Dockyard workers and their families.

Apart from the great loss that we have suffered with the Dockyard closure

* because that is what the European Union wanted

* together with its Maltese servants,

* one should ask who benefitted from the Dockyard closure?

It is the shipyards of the other European Union countries who benefitted,

* who took the work that used to be made by the Malta Dockyard,

* that is,

* around 40 million euros every year.

This shows that the European Union

* oppressed the Maltese workers

* for the benefit of the workers of its other member countries.

We are right to say that a crime has been committed against the Maltese workers, and it is a great shame that there were accomplices in comitting it.

And the shame continues to increase when the inestimable Dockyard facilities,

* among them the docks,

* and the biggest one in the Mediterranean,

* are being given for a mere pittance to foreigners for 30 years

* following the agreement that was made by the Minister for Finance.

This is with the consequences that all the profit that they make from them will go outside the country and is not enjoyed by the Maltese.

This is what the European Union and its Maltese servants want.

A Report that appeared in the British Newspaper Daily Telegraph of 5 April, had the title:

“UK’s refusal to join the euro was a blessing”.  

These words were uttered by Masahiro Sakane, Chairman of the Komatsu company which is the second largest company manifacturing heavy construction equipment.

This Komatsu chairman said that the reduction in the value of Sterling during the last two years helped greatly the United Kingdom producers to increase their sales and therefore their profits because they had increased their exports.

Masahiro Sakane was quoted as saying that “I am happy that the United Kingdom did not become a euro zone member”.

This speech is very different from when they were demanding that the United Kingdom adopt the euro.

They had warned that there may be serious consequences if what they were demanding was not done.

On the other hand we have the story of Greece

* where Greeks used to boast that their currency,

* the Greek Drachma,

* was the oldest currency in the world.

They changed over to the euro and today are on the brink of bankruptcy.

There are other countries that adopted the euro

* and today are in great financial difficulties,

* such as Spain,

* Portugal

* and Ireland.

In Malta the Government and the European Union propagandists told us that God forbid had we not adopted the euro because we would have ended up like Iceland that had stayed out of the European Union.

But what they did not tell us is that

* Greece,

* Spain,

* Portugal and

* Ireland

* who had all adopted the euro

* are all in a great economic

* and financial storm,

* and that the greater part of the blame for all this is

* because they had adopted the euro currency.

This is because with the European Union regulations they cannot take measures to adjust their interest rate as they need to do and can neither adjust the value of their currency in a manner to help increase their sales and exports because everything is bound by the Maastricht criteria.

An MEP insists that millions of euros from the peoples taxes are vanishing because the EU institutions are rotten with the fraud moth.

Among the harshest critics of the European Union there are even members of the European Parliament. One of them is the Conservative Daniel Hannan who made very serious comments about it.

Hannan said that many are so used to the amount of fraud in the European Union that they no longer take any notice about it, so much so that the newspapers no longer consider fraud cases as news.

He said that this is a very shocking fact and the European Union auditors cannot report how the Union funds are being spent.

According to Hanna, the European Union institutions are rotten with the fraud moth and this is because of the manner in which the Union institutions are established.

He is of the opinion that the system cannot be fixed because it is a racket whose main purpose is for everyone to think how to improve his position.

The problem is that in the European Union

* no one has the incentive to act correctly

* because those who apply for the European Union funds

* know that there are the funds

* and they draft their demands

* to be given those funds.

The European Union officials are happy to sign the cheques because thus they hope to become popular.

Daniel Hannan insists that the fraud disease of the European Union funds is not restricted only to Brussels, but is being spread throughout all the EU member countries.

Millions are given by the Union for the implementation of projects in its member countries that never happen and the funds end up being stolen.

This is an unhappy fact because the Eurpean Union funds come from the taxes paid by the people of the member countries.

Let’s take the example of Malta. According to the Government official Estimates, our country last year had to pay to the European Union €65 million.

But according to last year’s Government official report on income and expenditure, it resulted that Malta paid the Union €62.8 million.

This amount was paid to the European Union when our country contracted a debt pf €300 million during that year, which means that we had to incur debt to pay the European Union.

The burden of payments that the members are making to the EU is being greatly felt by many, no only by ourselves.

According to a recent public opinion poll in The Netherlands, the majority of the Dutch want to cut the amount that The Netherlands pays to the EU every year by half.

The burden that the EU member countries are carrying can be reduced if the European Unions works in a more serious manner and stops wastage.

An example of the lack of seriousness of the European Union was recently given in a report on the EU fuisheries policy.

It was found that from the year 2000, while the EU spent 17% of subsidies given to fishermen of the member countries to destroy their fishing boats, it spent 29% of the subsidies to fishermen to build new fishing boats when the European Union wants to reduce the amount of fishing to preserve fish stocks.

Therefore Daniel Hannan insists that the european is seriously diseased and the time has come for it to have an operation to amputate its diseased parts.

These last few days a Governemnt notice has appeared in newspapers that was very short and I think that few had noticed it, apart from this newspaper (l-orizzont 6-4-10) that also commented about it in its editorial (Outside or Inside)

I feel that it should be given great importance

* because it has uncovered and confirmed what the CNI

* has long been saying –

* that is,

* that with Malta’s entry into the Schengen Area,

* our country’s security has become weaker not stronger

* as the Government wanted the people to believe

* with that big propaganda billboard

* about the entry of Malta in the Schengen Area.

The notice said that “as from midnight Monday, 5 April and midnight Sunday, 18 April, controls will be reintroduced at the Malta International Airport and at the Valletta Sea Passenger Terminal for travelling in the Schengen Area.”

The reason that was given by the Minister for Justice and Internal Affairs was that those controls “were going to be reintroduced due to security reasons in connection with the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Malta.”

So the Minister for Justice,

* who previously so bragged

* that with Malta joining the Schengen Area

* our security was going to be strengthened,

* has now officially admitted

* that the Schengen Area

* instead of strengthening our security

* in fact has reduced our country’s security

* so much that the need was felt

* to “reintroduce the controls”

* both at the airport as well as at the port

* for persons who were coming to Malta

* as well as those who would be leaving Malta.

What continued to irritate and make me angry was the fact that it appears that the government is only interested in the security of our country because of the Pope’s visit.

So is the security of every Maltese citizen and our country not important for the government?

This bit of news continues to uncover the fact

* that the Maltese Government

* was forced or did not have the courage

* to stand up to political pressure

* by the European Union

* for our country to become a Schengen Area member.

This has not only reduced our security

* but it has created a great problem

* for many Maltese workers

* who work in Libya,

* apart from the Libyan tourism sector

* that prior to European Union membership

* did not even require a visa.

Thursday 15 April 2010

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

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