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The EU dictates Maltese policy

By the Campaign for National Independence CNI

Decisions are being taken in the European Union that seriously concern the Maltese people without being explained to them, and when not even having been discussed previously by our Members of Parliament.

This is what happened when they decided that Malta contracts a loan of millions of euros to loan them to Greece as part of the amount of €110 billion EU bail-out for this country.

After the Maltese Government had agreed to this loan, it informed the Members of Parliament about it so they give their stamp of approval.

The decision of the loan to Greece provided that it has to pay it back in the year 2013.

But now the EU is saying that the time for Greece to pay back this loan is to be extended even to 30 years.

After the EU decides this, The Members of the Maltese Parliament will be given information about the decision.

After having agreed on the bail-out of €110 billion for Greece, the EU took another decision.

For our country this decision meant that it guarantees about €400 million for seven years.

The Members of the Maltese Parliament were informed about this agreement of the granting of this guarantee after the decision about it had been taken.

After the decision of the €85 billion bail-out for Ireland up to 2017 had been taken,

* and for this purpose the EU agreed that an amendment shall be made to the Lisbon Treaty.

* that our country is going to be bound with a permanent guarantee of €400 million or more,

No ne told the people that the EU wants our country’s guarantee to also make good in case another country that had given a guarantee, does not honour it.

That is, our country is going to guarantee not only the debt between one country and another, but also the failure of another country that had given a guarantee and that could not honour it.

More than this, according to what the EU has said, bail-out from the permanent mechanism is given once the financial difficulties of a country would badly hit the Euro Zone.

That is why this decision that was taken on the set up of this permanent mechanism imposes an obligation on our country without our country being able to ever benefit if at any time it would need to be given help.

Notwithstanding all this, the Government pretends that the Members of the Maltese Parliament agree with such a decision that has already been taken by it and the EU, without anyone having the guts to criticize it.

Because the Prime Minister, instead of admitting that he made a mistake when he bound our country with the conditions of the bail-out permanent mechanism, chastised the Maltese Member of the European Parliament who complained that the conditions of the bail-out permanent mechanism imposes a burden on our country without our country ever being able to benefit from a bail-out.

It appears that there is no limit as to what the EU can decide to impose on the people without it being discussed.

Now the EU wants, on the pretext of finding a lasting solution for the debt crisis of the Euro Zone countries, to bind them with a pact, known as the “Pact for Competitiveness”.

* it was said that the Pact shall bind the Euro Zone countries to make a law

The Pact also provides for the removal of the link between the wages and salaries increases and the increase in the cost of living, and to harmonize taxes on commercial enterprises of all the Euro Zone countries.

These days meetings are being held presided by the EU President, Herman Van Rompuy, to take a decision on these measures with the aim that the EU overcomes the debt crisis by strengthening the economic government, or what it is calling ‘economic governance’.

Apart from the fact whether these measures, or some of them, are not suitable for our country, there are fundamental objections that such measures should first be discussed in the Maltese Parliament and not decided by the EU and afterwards our MP’s shall have to approve them because the Government would have bound itself about them.

The EU governing system is shackling our country’s democratic parliamentary system.

Our parliamentary system expresses the will of the majority of the people as expressed by the representatives in the Maltese Parliament.

The EU imposes its government system upon us because our Members of Parliament have to accept what the EU had decided and not what they feel should be done for our country.

The EU fear about Tunisia and Egypt

The latest events in Tunisia and Egypt have ripped apart the EU’s hypocrisy mask.

Because the EU used to offer strong support both to the Ben Ali Government in Tunisia, as well as to the Mubarak Government in Egypt, and did not care neither about the unemployment, neither about the poverty nor about the lack of protection of fundamental human rights and democratic rights in the two countries.

The EU only cared that the governments of the two countries agreed with the EU foreign policy and were eager to increase commerce with the EU countries and did not want to fight Israel, notwithstanding that it is still occupying Palestinian land in breach of United Nations resolutions.

In the protests and revolts in Tunisia and Egypt violent physical and damaging acts such as fire and theft, and vandalism on precious objects in museums were not lacking.

The EU stood back from condemning the violent means used for the removal of the leaders of the two countries.

Thus the EU showed that it approved the violent means used to acquire the ends that the EU considers as being good, among them, a democratic governing system and political freedom.

It happened that the EU blessed the bloody revolutions once they were the fruit of the popular will.

The EU knows that the same violent means can be used to remove governments of the EU countries, as can happen in Greece when the Greek military forces have been using firearms against the people who do not tire protesting because on the harshness of the austerity measures ordered by the EU.

The words of support for the revolutions in Tunisia and in Egypt hide the great fear that the EU has that the two countries end up in the hands of extremists that would not agree with the EU policy.

Although the EU is offering help to set up democratic governments in the two countries, the militant elements in the two countries do not appear ready to believe the EU that used to fully support the leaders that were deposed as an effect of the popular protests.

Thus it may be that the changes in the leadership in Tunisia and Egypt instead of leading to better agreements. Create more tensions between them and the EU.

We have already seen thousands of Tunisians escape to Italy, and the Italian Government felt constrained to ask for help from the EU against the waves of thousands of illegal immigrants.

This fact is a consequence of the Tunisian revolution, and evidences a lack of hope and faith in the future of the country, notwithstanding the revolution that has happened, and notwithstanding the assurances that the EU has made that it is going to help the county’s new leadership.

Harsh criticism for the European Union new economic conditions

The Maltese Minister for Finance, during the 15 February meeting of the EU countries Ministers for Finance, greed with the new conditions that the EU wants for the permanent mechanism that it is setting up with an amendment to the Lisbon Treaty to give help to the Euro Zone countries that are in financial difficulties.

It was also agreed that the fund to make good for the bail-outs, will instead of having the present €250 billion to dispose of, be increased to €500 billion.

The fact that a permanent mechanism is ot be set up evidences that the EU thinks that the crisis of financial difficulties of the Euro Zone countries is not a temporary one, but that there is the real danger that the crisis will be there for a long time, or that in the coming years there will be other crisis.

The fact that the bail-out fund is going to be increased to €500 billion shows that the EU knows that the debt crisis is greater than was stated, so much so that the fund set up last year is not enough and therefore it is going to be increased.

The fact that the EU is imposing new conditions to grant bail-outs is proof that the rules on Stability and economic growth made in the Maastricht Treaty to regulate the amount of deficit and the proportion between the national debt and the Gross Domestic Product of a country, have failed, either because the countries chose not to observe those rules, or because those rules could not be observed in the circumstances of the financial crisis and the economic crisis that hit many EU countries.

Although in our country no one had criticized what the EU wants to do, that is the setting up of a fiscal union to support the monetary union, in other EU countries many are those who are fighting against these new rules of economic governance.

Leigh Philips, an EUobserver.com correspondent, published a comment made by an economist on these rules that the EU wants the Euro Zone countries to observe to overcome the debt crisis and to fight the turbulence in the international financial markets.

This economist said that after the failure tat the EU had with the Mastricht Stability and Growth Pact, the new permanent mechanism conditions are “more of the same thing multiplied, but anything multiplied by zero is still zero”.

John Monks, the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Congress, called these new EU conditions “Diktats” that are meant to lower the standard of living, and completely ignore the social dialogue and the workers process of collective bargaining and directly interferes in the conditions of work in the EU countries.

Jan Willem Gourdriaan, the Deputy Leader of the European Public Sector Unions, described the new EU conditions as “scary” and said that the Federation is going to oppose the taking of other measures to strengthen the European Union internal market and the integration of the European Union countries, unless the EU puts its agenda measures for social progress.

Philippe Lamberts, the speaker for the economy of the Green Parties in the European Parliament, condemned the new EU conditions as “neo-liberal” and anti-social ‘socially blind’.

He insisted that the EU is already seeing that the austerity measures that it imposed on the Euro Zone countries are not succeeding.

This notwithstanding, the EU is increasing the austerity measures with the new conditions it is introducing, and is ignoring their very negative impact on the economies, and the bad effects that they are going to have on the workers wages and on the social services.

Other critics of the new EU conditions are accusing it that the EU is going against the democratic process in a manner that it is totally decreasing the sovereignty of the national parliaments of the Euro Zone countries.

Because although a country may not observe the new EU economic conditions, it is going to be able to impose upon it very harsh penalties calculated as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product of the country, which may amount to billions of euros every year.

The greatest condemnation for the new economic governance that the EU wants to introduce

But the Maltese Minister for Finance praised these new conditions with which he agreed at the Council of the Ministers for Finance that was held last Tuesday in Brussels.

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