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A smack to the European Union
By Correpondents of the Campaign for National Independence CNI
It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union
See this European Parliament video that we can leave
Storms
are not amiss for the European Union.
Like lightning, they strike is case after case of corruption and fraud.
The economic situation of some of the member countries is not good. Unemployment is not lacking.
On foreign policy, there are great differences between the member countries.
In the commercial sector, there are more than one fight between the Union and the United States of America.
During the last seven days, the European Union got two big smacks on its face.
One
is the vote against the Union currency, the Euro, in Sweden.
It is useful for one to reflect on the reasons for the Swedish referendum result.
The majority of the Swedish people denied the European Union currency last
Sunday.
Notwithstanding that Sweden itself is a Union member, it continued to keep its currency, as was done by two other members, the United Kingdom and Denmark.
And the first lesson from this fact is that Union member country can agree with the Union not to be the same in everything like all the other member countries.
The European Union was shocked that the majority of the Swedes denied the Euro.
The President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi, said that in Sweden fear had won.
But impartial political observers said otherwise than was said by Prodi.
They insisted that the majority of the Swedes have shown courage and faith in their country and challenged the European Union and did not bow their head for what the Union wanted at all costs.
The reasons for the result
The European Union working so that the member countries unite together in one state and the common currency helps a lot to achieve this aim. Therefore when the majority showed that it is against the Union becoming one state.
When
the majority of the Swedes voted NO for the Euro, they showed that they do not
want the prices to increase with the adoption of the Union currency, as we have
already seen two years ago in the 12 Union member countries that changed over to
the Euro.
The majority if the Swedes have shown that they also know that the Euro is a
threat to the social services in the country, that is, for the welfare state.
This is because all the countries that adopted the Euro are bound to follow the conditions and regulations of the pact that they made both on how much the government income may be less then expenditure every year (the deficit).
The majority of the Swedes also took notice that the adoption of the Euro brings more unemployment in the country, because according to the media unemployment in the member countries of the European Union that adopted the Euro, is higher than the unemployment rate that there is in Sweden and even in the member countries that do not have the Euro.
The majority of the Swedes also understood that if Sweden chose the Euro as its currency, it will be bound to have a rate of interest fixed by the European Union Central Bank.
This means that the country would not be able to reduce if it needs to the rate of interest on loans when it need to attract investment, and neither increase the rate of interest on loans when it needs to curb increase in prices and inflation.
The many threats that the high representatives of the European Union made to the Swedes, in the sense that Sweden will lost from its political and economic strength in the Union if it denies the Euro, were useless because the majority of the Swedes were not afraid of the threats.
They know that the rate of expansion every year in the Swedish economy is greater than the rate of expansion of the Union member countries that have the Euro.
Three years ago the majority of the Danes also voted against the introduction of the Euro and the country continued moving economically forward.
The Danish lesson could not fail to influence the majority of the Swedes to vote against the Euro.
The NO victory in Sweden has a greater meaning when we remember how the big
political parties, as well as all the trading community in Sweden worked
ceaselessly to have a result in favour of the Euro.
The same did the highest representatives of the European Union.
This notwithstanding, just the same the majority of the people, 56 per cent of those who voted, said NO.
The ex-colonies stand up to the EU
The
European Union took another political smack in the face these days when the
Cancun meeting, in Mexico, of the World Trade Organization ended in failure.
The failure of the WTO meeting occurred because the developing countries did not yield to the European Union and the United States of America proposals on other measures for free trade.
The developing countries insisted that first the European Union and the United States should reduce their subsidies and protection that they give to their farmers and must allow the developing countries to sell more of their agricultural products in the European and American markets.
The subsidies that the European Union gives to the farmers cost huge billions
for the citizens of the Union member countries.
These, apart from the taxes that they have to pay for the granting of subsidies, they end up also having to pay high prices for the agricultural products that they buy.
The European Union curbs importation in the member countries of agricultural
products coming from countries outside the Union.
At the same time the Union gives subsidies for the sale at lower prices to Union agricultural products that go to countries outside the union.
Thus countries outside the Union, who are developing, are badly hit twice with the European Union policy on agriculture.
The developing countries either are not allowed to export their agricultural products to the European Union, or they will have to pay customs duties on those products.
At
the same time, the European Union exports to the developing countries its
agricultural products and greatly subsidizes them and therefore they compete
more in price with agricultural products of the countries that import them.
But the European Union does not work with the same policy when it regulated the agricultural products market in the case of industrial products and produced in factories.
About these, the European Union insists that the market be free from any controls and subsidies, except on those products that are imported from outside the Union.
The lesson from the failure of the WTO meeting in Cancun is great for the European Union.
The great number of countries of the world that rebelled against the European Union policy and stood up to it and showed that they are not ready to allow it to dictate to them any more.
This is a big political smack in the face to the European Union from countries who up to a few years ago were colonies of the Union member countries.
Consistency or convenience?
I think that many have heard about those shipping companies that fly what is called a flag of convenience on their ships.
This flag is of that country where these companies register their ships.
Therefore the flay flying on their ships is not that of the country where the ship was built and launched.
Neither will it be of the nationality of the ship owner.
They call it “flag of convenience” because the owners of the ships would be “convening” – that is for their benefit – that they have that flag because thus they save a lot of money than if they register their ships in their own country!
Now it appears that in Malta we have people who because they think that it will be “convenient” that their party, are ready to start flying the European Union flag instead of that of their country.
Someone had impressed their mind that if they do so the “party” is going to win the election and they will become ministers!
What is going to happen to Malta and the Maltese people is no longer important.
The important thing is that “we shall be in Government”, they say.
We now come to another word that has a lot to do with this subject.
The word: “consistency”.
This
word means that what you believed and preached in the past you continue to
believe and preach also in the present and in the future, unless you have proof
that what you believe in and preach is mistaken.
This is “consistency”!
At first glance you become aware how different from the word “convenience” – that is, to do and say what would be suitable for you at the moment, even when this is completely “contrary” to what you always believed in and “preached”.
It is a pity that the Maltese people appear not to have anyone ready to continue flying the flag “of consistency”, that is the Maltese flag, because they are more inclined to fly the “flag of convenience” of the European Union.
We of the CNI never and never are going to fly the “flag of convenience” to satisfy someone, unless we have clear proof that we were and still are mistaken because “the flag of convenience” would have brought us great benefits for our country and left us independent and sovereign – as they told us that we shall remain.
Thursday, 18 September, 2003
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