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Denial of democracy
Today and tomorrow the leaders of the European Union
countries are meeting in Lisbon to agree on the final draft of the new Reform
Treaty that is replacing the Union Constitutional Treaty that was signed in Rome
in October 2004, and that the French and Dutch voted against it and therefore it
did not enter into effect.
The Maltese Prime Minister is going to take part in the Lisbon meeting where he
is going to commit Malta with all that is provided in the Treaty.
Neither our Parliament members and neither our people were given information on what the Treaty is going to contain that is going to bind us if it enters into effect.
Our politicians chose to keep the
people in the dark about what the Treaty contains to evade popular criticism and
opposition to it, so that then all our parliamentary members will approve it as
they had voted in favour of the Constitutional Treaty, in July 2005.
The EU countries leaders are going
to agree to prevent as much as possible that their people have their say in a
referendum, whether they agree with the new Treaty, because they are afraid that
there will be those who vote against it and the Treaty shall have the “bad
luck” that the previous Constitutional Treaty had before it.
This is an act of contempt for democracy that uncovers the thick hypocrisy of
the European Union that so talks in favour of democracy, but does not practice
it, where it is afraid that the people do not want to succeed that which the
Union leaders want to do.
We therefore expect that great efforts will be made to defend at all costs what
the Treaty says, whether the Maltese people agree or not.
Therefore we do not expect that the required objectivity will be shown in the discussion about the Treaty after being signed next December by the leaders of the EU countries.
This is going to be damaging to the interests of our
people that is fitting for them to protect them not subject them to other
interests.
There is no doubt that the new Treaty is going to continue to reduce our
sovereignty by giving more powers to the EU to decide with a majority in a
greater number of sectors.
In these sectors the Maltese people will have to lower their heads and obey for as long as we remain in the EU to that which the Union majority decides, even if the Maltese people will be against those decisions.
Therefore the
will of our people will not remain supreme and this shall mean the denial of
democracy in our country
For our country to move forward we need to increase the exports of our country and increase the sale of our services.
Does the EU help us to do so?
Not
only does it not help us but it makes it more difficult to export more and sell
more our products and services.
Because membership in the EU has increased our cost of living and expenses, and
thus not only has it not made us more competitive, but it decreased our
competitiveness.
The lack of competitiveness has led to the closure of factories and threw us back in the sale of services such as ship repair and in the tourism sector.
The change to the Ewro next January is going to continue to decrease our
competitiveness because it is going to increase our cost of living and increase
our expenses.
The strength of the Ewro against other currencies, mostly against the American Dollar, is going to continue to decrease our competitiveness.
With this our factories that export
mostly to markets outside the EU will be hard-hit, more so in those markets that
buy with the American Dollar.
The products made in Malta will cost more for those who pay with the American Dollar.
Our politicians are betraying our people when they hide from them the
serious threat that we have for our exports in a number of our factories.
And this is no longer in the case of textile factories, but factories that have a high value increased with wages and salaries that are paid.
No one is telling the people that the biggest factory that is the major exporter from Malta has already discharged one in every six of its workers and is threatened with closure with the consequence that around 2,000 more workers will lose their job.
In front of this threat for jobs in our country membership in the European Union
is an obstruction, not help for our country.
As it is also a threat to another big enterprise that the EU is threatening to close and thus cause us to lose the jobs of about 1,700 other workers.
We are not taking measures to stop the rise in the cost of living and reduce the
expenses to increase competitiveness, and neither we are giving incentives to
increase efficiency and increase productivity.
We are doing the opposite, because we are continuing to increase the burden for our enterprises, both on those who export products as well as those who sell services.
The EU policy and rules do not
allow us to take the necessary steps and introduce the required measures to
decrease the burden and reduce the expenses for our enterprises.
As long as we do not do whatever is necessary without EU interference to increase the exports of our products and the selling of our services, we cannot move forward and we cannot employ our youths in our country.
We are doing wrong in not recognizing that this is the first problem that we
have and that we should do everything to solve it.
According to the United Nations, in 2006 Norway and Iceland were the first and second best countries to live in.
The two countries have not become members in the European Union although it wants them to do so.
The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg is in favour of his country
joining the Union.
However, he publicly admits that the Norwegian people are
today enjoying what they had acquired when they voted in two referenda against
Union membership.
These benefits are a strong economy, low unemployment, and a high rate of economic expansion.
Not only, but because Norway has stayed out of the Union, it has saved its fisheries industry (not as has happened to the UK with membership in the EU greatly reduced its fishing industry).
Iceland
The same can be said about Iceland that has never applied to enter in the European Union.
This country trades mostly with the Union, and because the country is in the European Economic Area (EEA), has free access to the EU common market without being subject to many of the regulations of the same Union.
Iceland is also free from the disastrous Union policy, such as the Common
Agricultural Policy.
And when Iceland feels that it is in its national interests, it can revoke every agreement that it has with the Union.
The director of the Icelandic No Movement, Hortur J. Gudmundsson, says that
there is no reason for his country to become a EU member, because Iceland is
doing very well outside.
He insists that the basis of the success of Iceland is the
independence that it maintained during the years.
Gudmundsson insists that the Iceland case gives proof of how national progress is bound with the protection of the independence of a country.
Because a country that remains independent from the EU takes decisions that are in its best interests, according to its circumstances, and will not have to obey decisions taken by the Union that gives importance to circumstances of other countries in the Union, that are not the same circumstances as those of Iceland.
Switzerland also, together with Norway and Iceland, is always considered among the first ten best countries in the world economy.
The three are not in the EU and while Norway and Iceland are in the European
Economic Area, Switzerland is not.
But it has concluded a number of bilateral agreements with the EU in sectors that it wants to cooperate on with the Union.
Christa Markwalder Bar, the
President of the European Movement in Switzerland, also admits that her
country’s agreements with the EU are very positive, although her country is
not a member in the Union.
The
EU is in favour of abortion
The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Polish Government to pay for damages that a Polish woman, Alicja Tysiac, suffered because her sight deteriorated due to a pregnancy she could not terminate because she did not find a doctor in Poland to carry out an abortion.
The Maltese Christians can expect that the same will happen to the Maltese
Government as happened in Poland.
Or it will not be long before the EU condemns the Maltese
Government to pay the expenses to a Maltese woman who go abroad to carry out an
abortion, because the Government would not have provided her with the means to
make an abortion in Malta.
Naturally the Maltese Bishops will
do as the Polish ones did, encourage the Christians to protest.
But it will be useless if the Maltese Christians do not
rise and be counted and tell the EU to do what it likes but leave Malta to do
what it believed is good.
Last week the Dutch doctor Dr Gomperts known for the abortion ship “Women on
Waves” that she takes form one country to another to campaign in favour of
abortion came to Malta.
This is what she came to do in our country.
All the efforts that were made with the Commissioner of Police to stop Dr Gomperts from publicly making propaganda in favour of abortion our country were useless.
Now that our country is in the European Union, the Police did not dare to stop Dr Gomperts from her propaganda, because the EU would have interfered and condemn us with obstructing the freedom of expression and the freedom of movement of an EU citizen.
It would have resulted in imposing a fine on us and thus reduce the amount of money that it had promised to give us.
Naturally the Maltese Christians protested and the Bishops condemned this, but
it is useless as long as the EU is allowed to order us and insult our beliefs.
For the EU abortion is a right of women and condemns those who prevent abortion, not those who do it and make propaganda for it.
Christian Malta, with its membership in the Union, with the millions that it pays yearly to the EU, is helping and supporting the European policy in favour of abortion.
Recently there were some who proposed that we introduce a condemnation for
abortion in our Constitution.
The European Union will not let us do so.
Because although we have a protocol that we are not obliged to introduce Union
laws about abortion, in our Constitution we have introduced that we cannot make
laws that are against the EU ones.
A law against abortion goes against what the Union wants.
Countries outside the Union can make a law against abortion.
Nicaragua has just done so.
But Nicaragua is independent and sovereign, not like Malta
that is ruled by the Union.
WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION
Thursday 18 October 2007.
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