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The visit in Malta of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a scope much greater than that which she and the Maltese Prime Minister told the public.

Germany is exploiting the bad financial situation of many EU countries

* for these to cede their control on their country’s economy

* and unite in one common economy

* dominated by Germany and seconded by France.

The German Chancellor came to Malta to assure herself that the Maltese Government accepts to cede sovereignty of our country’s economy in the hands of an EU Central Government, and as it appears, the Maltese Prime Minister showed total support.

The German Chancellor has for months been insisting on the need to set up a new regime for the euro currency, and she said that if this is not done, Germany will think whether it shall remain in the Euro Zone.

A number of measures have already been taken to increase EU control

* on the financial budgets of the EU countries,

* which prior to being presented to the national parliaments,

* have to be first approved by the EU.

This means that when the Maltese Government presents the Budget 

* in the House of Representatives,                                                        

* it will be already bound about it from some time before with the EU,

* and the Members of the Maltese Parliament                                     

* will simply give their rubber stamp                                                        

* for what the EU had agreed to.                                                            

The EU countries leaders have already agreed with Germany

* for an amendment to be made to the Lisbon Treaty

* to set up a permanent mechanism

* that will be able to give financial aid

* to the EU countries that will be financial difficulties.

But aid shall only be given on strict conditions that shall have to be carefully observed by the countries being aided.

The amendment in the Lisbon Treaty                                    

* is going to lead to our country,                                           

* after June 2013                                                                   

* to be legally bound to give its share from the guarantees

* that the permanent fund gives for loans                            

* that are made to the countries that need them.                 

 Today Malta is guaranteeing €400 million

 to the European Financial Stability facility

 that remains into effect up to June 2013.

The permanent mechanism that is going to be called the European Stability Mechanism is to be set up by means of the amendment in the Lisbon Treaty that is going to enter into effect on 1 January, 2013, and replaces the present facility.

This permanent mechanism that is going to be set up                                             

* means that our country will be bound with a guarantee in a permanent manner

* of €400 million (or more, if the fund will be bigger than it presently is),             

* to make good for the loans that are made to the euro countries,                        

* so that if those loans are not paid back when they mature,                                 

* Malta will have to pay up to €400 million from those loans.                                

In other words, our country will have this sword hanging on its head in a permanent manner.

Although the Maltese Prime Minister accepted to bind our country in a permanent manner with this guarantee, it is hoped that the Maltese Parliament does not approve that this guarantee be given and that therefore will vote against this measure when it is presented.

In connection with the new regime of the euro currency,

* the German Chancellor also wants the EU countries,

* at least those in the Euro Zone,

* to harmonize their taxes,

* so that no country will have an advantage on the other countries

* by having lower taxes

* and thus attracts to itself foreign investments and funds.

According to the EU treaty, the taxation sector does not fall under the EU powers, but is the competence of the national governments.

Tax harmonization among the EU countries can be made if all the countries agree with it.

There is no doubt that the German Chancellor is pressing for this measure to happen and it cannot be expected that she did not encourage the Maltese Prime Minister to agree with this.

But this measure would mean that our country shall lose one of the attractions that it has for foreign investments and funds.

The tax harmonization that the EU wants includes the VAT tax which is not the same in the EU countries.

In many of them, the rate of VAT is higher that that of Malta of 18%.

Therefore with the VAT tax harmonization,

* its rate shall increase in Malta                

* to be the same as in the other countries.

Apart from increasing VAT,                                                                    

* its harmonization means that                                                               

* our country shall lose the derogation with which food and medicines

* are not taxed with VAT,                                                                       

* as long as they remain untaxed in the United Kingdom                     

* and Ireland.                                                                                           

It was not stated whether the Prime Minister had agreed or not with the proposal of tax harmonization in the EU countries, but it is known that the Maltese Member of the European Parliament that participated in the committee that recommended tax harmonization, supported this proposal.

During Angela Merkel’s visit, a lot of bragging was made on the ties between our country and Germany in the industrial, commercial and financial sectors.

It’s good that we remember that these ties are not the fruit of Malta’s EU membership, but were started and developed many years previously, so much so that except for one enterprise, all the German enterprises that we have in our country, were set up prior to our EU membership.

We brought them to our country, without sacrificing the economic and political sovereignty as we are presently doing.

It is a fact that no one can deny that the cancer of corruption in the European Union is big and widespread.

The European Union has a body of auditors (known as the Court of Auditors) appointed by the member countries for a number of years, whose work is to examine the EU yearly bills and payments.

Malta had appointed Professor Josef Bonnici as a member of the EU Court of Auditors, and now has Dr Louis Galea.

The EU Auditors have the duty to certify every year whether the EU accounts are correct.

Amazingly, for as long as the Court of Auditors has been set up in 1975, they have never certified the EU accounts without making some qualification or reservation on them, which means that they have never certified that the accounts were all correct (what is called a “clean bill of health”).

One who had served for 15 years as an EU Auditor,

* the Dutchman Maarten Engwirda,

* who has just retired from his appointment,

* gave an interview to the Dutch Newspaper  De Volkskrant,

* harshly criticized his auditor colleagues,

* as well as the members of the European Commission,

* by accusing them that they like to hide shortcomings (which he called as a “culture of cover-up”),

* and that they have (“tradition of watering down reports”).

( http://euobserver.com/18/31620  Dutch ex-member of Court of Auditors blasts endemic corruption)

(http://www.volkskrant.nl/vk/nl/2664/Nieuws/article/detail/1790716/2011/01/11/Sabotage-en-fraude-in-Europese-Rekenkamer.dhtml

'Sabotage en fraude in Europese Rekenkamer)

In fact he states that “there was a practice of watering down, if not completely removing criticism”.

But, Maarten Engwirda, also implicated the Commissioner who in 2005 was responsible to curb the EU fraud, the Estonian Siim Kallas, because he used to put pressure on the Court of Auditors not to be very thorough in their verifications (to reduce its standards).

Siim Kallas is presently the Commissioner responsible for the EU transport sector.

Notwithstanding that the EU Auditors are deviated in their work, just the same they did not certify in any year that the EU accounts as being totally correct.

One should be reminded that there is more than one person that was employed with the EU that uncovered that there were many thefts, fraud and corruption.

It is enough to remember Bernard Connolly who in 1995 wrote the book “The Rotten Heart of Europe”,

and the Dutchman Paul van Buitenen, who uncovered the EU’s skeletons in the book “Blowing the Whistle”,

and more recently, the Spanish Marta Andreasen, who was in charge of the EU accounts and did not want to sign them as being correct, and ended up like van Buitenen, kicked out of employment.

Today she is a Member of the European Parliament for which she was elected as a representative of the United Kingdom Independence Party.

Andreasen said that she was not surprised with what Maarten Engwirda had said when he insisted on the lack of independence of the EU auditors that shows a lack of transparency in the media that they report on the irregularities on its accounts.

But she felt that what was said has started worries on whether the European Parliament is acting correctly when it is approving the EU accounts, as it has done for the last 15 years.

Andreasen is therefore going to insist that the European Parliament appoints auditors not employed by the EU so that they will examine its accounts, independently from the EU auditors.

She is going to ask the President of the European Commission, Barroso, whether he is ready to tell the whole truth on how the European Union is spending the funds coming from the taxes paid by the Union citizens.

There is no hope that the EU learned a lesson from the financial crisis that many member countries are in.

The EU is persisting with its disastrous policy that created unemployment of 23 million workers and led to more than 80 million persons on the poverty line.

This notwithstanding, it is insisting that austerity measures be taken that are going to increase the countries debt, create more unemployment and increase poverty.

With great shame we admit that our country has its share of blame for this disaster because the Maltese Prime Minister is participating in the meetings of the EU countries leaders and he is agreeing with the policy drafted by the EU and with the austerity measures ordered by it.

He declared this himself in a statement he made lately in Parliament on his participation in the European Council on 16 and 17 last December.

He even said that our country should participate with other countries in supporting the governments that are taking austerity measures. He didn’t care that in our country there are many who do not agree with these harsh measures.

A group of 100 Italian economists

*  in a letter sent to the Italian Government

* and to the Italian representatives in the European Parliament,

* and which they published in the Italian newspaper Il Sole

* wrote that the EU austerity policy

* is aggravating the crisis,

* is increasing speculation by the financial speculators

* and may lead to the failure of the euro currency,

* increases unemployment and brings economic contraction.

They insisted that the global economic crisis and the Euro Zone crisis are not going to be overcome with reductions in wages and salaries by decreasing the welfare state, by cutting the education and research expenditure.

Indeed the policy of cutting in education and research expenditure

* is going to aggravate the dire situation

* by increasing the rate of unemployed persons,

* the bankruptcy of enterprises and companies,

* and in the end the euro countries will leave the Euro Zone.

The economists said that the main points that one should understand are that the instability present in the Euro Zone is not the result of fraud in the countries accounts and neither on their excessive expenditure.

In fact the instability is as a consequence of the profound global economic crisis and the link that exists between the economies of the euro countries.

The economists blame the crisis on the economic policy of the big and financially strong countries, especially Germany, which has for many years curb the wages by not allowing them to increase as much as the increase in competitiveness, and has long been grabbing foreign markets for its products and for German companies.

This policy gave Germany huge balance of payments, an income for the country much bigger than its expenses, while it increased the debt of the countries of Southern Europe. As the EU does not have a mechanism that adjusts this imbalance, the situation worsened.

According to the Italian economists this is the reason why the traders in the financial markets are afraid that the euro is going to weaken.

They think that with the austerity measures, the income from taxes will decrease, and thus it will be more difficult for the countries to pay back their debt.

The economists say that countries will slowly leave the Euro Zone and others may decide that it will be better for them to do so to get out of the spiral that has always contracted their economy.

There is therefore the fear that the countries will go bankrupt and will have to go back to their national currencies.

The economists ended their letter by appealing to the EU to review its disastrous austerity policy and for the EU Central Bank to abandon the bail-outs policy with loans, and instead authorize the increase in the provision of funds to the countries in financial difficulties, to again start expanding their economies.

Thursday 20 January 2011

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