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CAMPAIGN FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE
Was, is and shall remain in favour of Maltese workers
and against Malta's membership of the European Union
By the Campaign for National Independence CNI
What we have lost with the European Union
Frequently we hear about the closure of factories and hotels in our country and the dismissal of their workers.
Although they
are quick to tell us that the closure of factories and hotels has nothing to do
with our country’s membership in the European Union, the truth is that the
closure of factories and hotels and the dismissal of their workers happens
because they do not let us give the necessary help so that the factories and
hotels do not close down and keep the workers in their job.
This disaster in employment is happening because the competitivity of our country has gone down due to the increase in expenses that happened after membership in the European Union.
Among the expenses that have increased extensively are the
* oil products,
* petrol,
* diesel,
* the price of gas,
* electricity and
* water
that all lost from the discount that they enjoyed before because the price of oil was cheaper than that which we had paid on the market, according to the agreement we had with Libya, that we were made to lose with membership of the Union.
Expenses increased both in production as well as in services because of the increase in the cost of living with the introduction of VAT in our country ordered by the European Union on products and services, and with the Union’s higher duty of the Common External Tariff on products bought from countries outside the Union.
This is why membership in the European Union had a very bad effect on our country’s competitivity, and this is why some factories and hotels closed down and dismissed the workers.
We have suffered all this loss that is known to everyone but no one mentions it, because of membership in the European Union.
We have lost other things with membership in the European Union.
We have lost a great number of companies registered in our country owned by foreigners who traded from outside Malta to whom we used to give preferential tax treatment, and because of those benefits they used to register in our country.
We have lost them because the European Union does not allow us to give them these tax benefits to attract them to our country, because the Union does not want us to take them away from other Union members that do not give them the same tax benefits.
We have also lost, with our membership in the European Union, all that foreign investment that used to come to our country on the strength of the help that we used to give the the manufacturing and services industries that were set up in our country to create employment for Maltese workers.
All the investment that came would also have come had we stayed outside the European Union.
With it would have come much more investment had we not entered into the European Union.
With Union membership therefore, we have lost not increased investment, and we have lost all the jobs that the investment would have created in our country.
Financially we have also lost, not won, with our membership in the European
Union.
Because in spite of all the boasting about the millions that we receive from the European Union,
* we do not receive as much as we pay the European Union,
* as much as we used to receive when we were outside the European Union and have lost with membership,
* as much as we lose the profit every year because we have to give our foreign reserves to the European Union, and
* as much as the enormous spending we have to make because of our membership in the European Union.
They know so well that the imbalance is against us that they never say what we spend and lose because of membership, but only mention what we receive.
Great
moral loss
Apart from the financial and material loss and the loss of employment, membership in the European Union has caused us another sort of loss, perhaps even greater.
Because membership in the European Union has caused the loss in our people, especially for youths, the strong will that we have the ability to live and move forward with our work and endowments, and not having to rely on the mercy of the European Union to lead us as used to happen when we were a colony ruled by foreigners.
Our membership in the European Union has caused the loss of our strong character and the perception of our predecessors who made all the necessary sacrifices so that we shall be a free people with our own free will.
The European Union has caused us the loss of the worthy sense of thinking more
about our neighbours than ourselves.
It’s a great shame when we hear someone who boast how he is better off personally with European Union membership, without caring about
* how many jobs were lost because of membership,
* how our youths are finding it impossible to have their own home due to the explosion of property prices following membership in the Union,
* how many larger sectors of the population are becoming poorer with the higher cost of living, and
* in future will suffer from
* the lack of free social services and
* with the reduction in pensions,
all are the effects of membership in the European Union.
With membership in the European Union, egoism has won in our country, and social justice has lost.
According to the EU Observer journalist, Lucia Kubosovo, the Maltese Government is angry that the European Union has left our country alone for far too long on the problem of illegal immigrants, when the problem is of the whole European Union.
A few days ago, the EU Observer journalist wrote that the Maltese authorities complained that the wave of illegal immigrants has turned our country into a large-scale detention centre.
Last year 1,800 illegal immigrants entered Malta and another 750 came during the first six months this year.
There are about 3,000 illegal immigrants.
According to Lucia Kubosovo, the Minister for Social and Family Affairs Dolores Cristina complained that our country has been left alone for far too long by the EU to face alone the illegal immigrants problem, when in fact the problem is of the whole EU.
She was not referring to funds, but to the difficulties that immigrant members of the same family be united (family reunification or resettlement).
Because according to the EU regulations, the country where the illegal immigrants land has to take care of them and not allow them to go to other Union countries.
For Minister Cristina these regulations are creating in Malta a large-scale detention centre where the illegal immigrants are held forcefully against their will, because they want to be allowed to continue on their way to the big Union countries and not to remain in Malta.
According to Minister Cristina, the European Commissioner responsible for
immigration, Franco Frattini, was not forceful enough to persuade the
governments of Union countries to help in this problem.
The Minister also stated that the Maltese Government is doing all it can to send a message to the people to tolerate the illegal immigrants.
But the ever increasing number number of illegal immigrants in one area is
creating fear of lack of accomodation, which is a fact, and of lack of jobs,
which is also true, and that the foreign immigrants are taking housing and jobs
required by the Maltese people.
During the same days that the criticism of Minister Cristina against the EU about the problem of illegal immigrants was published, a high official of the Nationalist Party, Frank Psaila, thus wrote in a local newspaper:
“Sincerely now I have started thinking about whether the EU is determined to help our country in a concrete way on the problem of illegal immigration. Barroso, Frattini and tens of European politicians came. All promised that they will help us, but then either this help never arrived or when it arrives, it is too weak.”
We have always stated that our membership in the EU is forever increasing the
problem of illegal immigrants in our country.
Now it appears that many are beginning to understand that we can only solve it by severing our membership ties with the Union.
Because of the European Union policies and regulations, thousands of foreign workers are taking the bread of Maltese workers in many sectors, not least in tourism.
According to a Parliamentary answer, about 5,000 foreign workers have come to
work in Malta on the basis of the EU Accession Treaty.
We should remember that many of the hotels have been granted aid by the government to be set up with the aim of creating employment for Maltese workers.
Now they are employing foreigners instead of Maltese workers because EU foreigners have the right to work in our country as much as Maltese workers.
It is not only workers from European Union countries that have the right to work in Malta, but also foreign workers from countries outside the EU that have concluded agreements with the EU that gives them the right to work in the EU.
Since we are bound by the agreement with the EU, we have to accept that all these workers take away jobs from Maltese workers.
In the services sector, what is happening in the hotels is also happening at the
shipyards.
The EU insisted that hundreds of experienced Maltese craftsmen be dismissed from the shipyards, so that now hundreds of foreign workers from Union countries such a Poland and Bulgaria are being brought over to do the work that was previously done by Maltese shipyards craftsmen.
The Maltese workers were severely hard-hit with the policies and regulations of the European Union, because the work that was previously done in Malta is now being taken to other countries, while work that is still being carried out in Malta is being taken by foreign workers who are being brought here.
And the shame is that in the face of this disaster in the employment sector, we
have shameless leaders who preach that the EU is beneficial for the Maltese
workers.
With membership in the EU, not only have we lost hundreds of jobs with the
closure of factories and hotels, with the shipyards restructuring and with the
privatization of the people’s enterprises, but we have lost a lot of other
jobs with the removal of the protection measures and benefits that we used to
give to the enterprises who worked for the local market.
The protection measures and the benefits to the enterprises that used to work for the local market were not granted for the benefit of the owners of the enterprises, but to create work and employment for their workers and to expand our country’s economy, instead of exporting money from our country by buying foreign products.
With the European Union the Maltese workers have won nothing but lost a lot.
If we leave the Union, they will lose nothing, but will win a lot.
Thurday 19 July 2007
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