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A week after the Irish people voted in favour of the Lisbon Treaty, The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, explained in a press conference why he is not going to sign the Treaty.

He felt that he should speak after he had discussed the issue with the Swedish Prime Minister, Reinfeld, who for the last six months is the President of the EU Council of Ministers, as well as with the President of the European Parliament, the Polish Buzek.

President Vaclav Klaus said without any hesitation that the Lisbon Treaty was going to make fundamental changes for the Czech Republic.

He said that he had always considered that the treaty is a step in the wrong direction,

* because it was going to increase the problem that the Union has today,

* is going to increase the Union “democratic deficit”,

* and is going to weaken the position of the Czech Republic

* and expose it to new risks.

Among these risks, the treaty changes the legal status of Czech citizens and also their rights on property.

President Klaus warned that

* on the basis of the Charter of Fundamental Rights,

* which is part of the Lisbon Treaty,

* the European Union Court can decide claims

* made by foreigners for properties

* that were expropriated from them

* after the world war because of the help that those foreigners had given to the Germans,

* who had grabbed Czechoslovakia.

The Czech President complained that the Czech Government had not negotiated an exemption from the Charter of Fundamental Rights as had been made by England and Poland so that it will be their courts who decide claims based on fundamental rights, not according to the Charter of the European Union, but according to the laws of the mentioned countries.

He wants that before he signs, the European Union gives the Czech Republic the same exemptions that it gave to England and Poland.

Let me start with what we win with the Lisbon Treaty, because it won’t take much space –

ANOTHER SEAT IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT.

Let me now come to a little of what we are going to lose with the Treaty.

With the Lisbon Treaty since in the Council of Ministers they decide everything in the Union, the size of the country’s population is going to start being considered, he big states are going to have their strength increased and the small states, like Malta, their strength is going to be decreased. It is enough to say that Germany and France between them have nearly half the population of the Eurozone, and in matters that concern only the euro countries, such as the excessive deficit that Malta has, these two big countries can determine what measures shall be taken against us by the Union.

With the Treaty, the Maltese Government will no longer have the right to choose the Maltese Commissioner in the European Commission, but can only suggest persons, and the President of the Commission decides himself whom to make a Commissioner.

With the Treaty, the European Union is going to be given a constitutional form of a State legally distinct and above the 27 member states. He will have the power to sign treaties in every sector that falls under the jurisdiction of the Union. Thus Malta and every other member state of the Union, loses the right of an independent state to sign international treaties that bind it, because these will be signed by the Union.

With the Treaty, the Judges of the European Union Court are going to determine what are the human fundamental rights, and not the judges of the Courts of Malta, in cases where there is no agreement on these rights.

With the Treaty, Malta like the other Union countries, is going to lose the right of veto (that is, that if it does not agree, the law or directive will not be made), in many more sectors, such as public services, criminality, justice, immigration, energy, trans[port, tourism, sports, culture, public health and others.

With the Treaty, the power of the Maltese Parliament is going to decrease in 49 sectors, because the European Parliament is going to get that power. Thus, the influence of the European Parliament is going to increase and that of the Maltese Parliament is going to decrease.

With the Treaty, the Council of Ministers is going to be able, with the agreement of al the ministers, make things that according to the Treaty can be decided by unanimity, to be decided by a qualified majority, and thus the Union treaties can be changed without the ratification of the Maltese Parliament.

With the Lisbon Treaty we shall have to pay, apart from taxes to our Government, other taxes that the European Union is going to be given the power to make to create that what the Treaty calls “Union’s own resources”, without the requirement of further treaties or referenda.

Because the heads of the Union member countries can, if they all agree, make a “European Tax” to finance more functions that the Union is going to have with the Treaty.

And our Government can say to the people that it did not make the tax, but that it was made by the Union.

There is a lot more that we are going to lose, but I think I have written enough to show how the Maltese and Gozitan people have nothing to be happy about because we are going to get another seat in the European Parliament, but should weep what we are going to lose with the Lisbon Treaty.

If today Malta is already a COUNTRY UNDER YOKE – as had been predicted by someone – with the Lisbon Treaty, Malta will be a country ruled much more.

Thursday 18 October 2009

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