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European Union €420,000,000
What the Prime Minister did not say about the EU summit
It
appears that the new Government is going to continue with the strategy of
misinformation about the European Union, because in the press conference on the
meeting of the leaders of the Union countries on 13 and 14 March, in Brussels,
the Prime minister did not give correct information of what the leaders had
discussed and decided during the meeting.
The
Prime Minister was reported as saying to the journalists in the press
conference, that the aims of the European Union are:
* that the energy sector will be more competitive;
* that there will be better food and energy prices;
* that the provision of energy will be sustainable; and
*
that this will not be dependent on factors that the EU does not have control on.
But the official conclusions published by the EU of what happened during the
meeting of the leaders of the Union countries gives a different picture from
that given by the Prime Minister.
The
Prime Minister did not tell the journalists that
* as regards the prices of food
* and energy,
* the leaders of the EU countries (including the Prime Minister of Malta),
* agreed that they should not introduce measures
* that do not allow the rules of free market from functioning correctly
* and thus lead to adjustment in
prices.
This
means that the leaders agreed
* that they should not subsidize food and
* energy products to lighten the burden on consumers.
The
Prime Minister also did not tell the journalists that the EU leaders (including
himself), mentioned the necessity of a revision of the European directive on
taxation.
They asked the European Commission to present proposals on how the rate of VAT
and other taxes can be used or reduced to encourage the consumption and use of
products that are more energy efficient and materials that reduce the
consumption of energy.
This
would mean that the Maltese Government has to accept to have a reduced income
from these taxes, a step that the Government does not appear that it wants to
take, because it is intending to reduce its income from Income Tax.
The Prime Minister neither told the journalists that
* he and
* the leaders of the other EU countries had agreed that
* they should speed up the bureaucratic processes by 25% each year up to 2012, and
* that they should help small and medium-sized industries
* by reducing the negative impact on them of the EU regulations, and
* to increase the facility to acquire financial aid from European sources.
This shortcoming of the Prime Minister shows his fear that he will be uncovered how founded is the criticism about the EU's exaggerated bureaucracy and the restrictive regulations that obstruct work in our country of small and medium-sized enterprises.
These
shortcomings in what the Prime Minister said in the press conference witness the
tactics of the Government to influence as it sees best for it, what is told to
the Maltese public about what the European Union decides.
These
tactics are made by taking Maltese media journalists to the Union meetings, and
the Prime Minister speaks to the Maltese journalists in a press conference prior
to coming back to Malta.
In this manner the Maltese media reports what the Prime Minister says and
totally ignores the official conclusions that the Union publishes about the
meetings.
This
is all an extravaganza of a waste of money by the Maltese Government that above
all gives an obscure picture to the Maltese public that only follows the local
media, and does not seek full and correct information on the foreign media.
It appears that the new Government is going to continue with the manipulation of
information.
Malta’s
natural place in the Mediterranean Union
The
LEADERS of the European Union countries in their summit on 13 and 14 March also
discussed the proposal by the French President Nicolas Sarkozy for the
establishment of a Mediterranean Union.
When
the proposal was made, members of this Union had to be, apart from countries
touching on the Mediterranean. Northern Africa and the Middle East, only EU
countries that are in the Mediterranean.
It is known that Germany and other EU countries objected to the establishment of
the Mediterranean Union for a number of reasons, among them that in the EU there
are already established what is known as the Barcelona Process to increase
cooperation between the EU countries and Mediterranean countries that are not
members in the EU.
The EU members that are not in the Mediterranean also objected that EU funds end
up in the Mediterranean Union activities instead of being used to increase
development and social cohesion in the EU.
Then
there is the reason that is not stated publicly, that some EU members are
worried that France increases its influence in the Mediterranean at the expense
and damage of the EU countries that have interests in the Mediterranean, but
were going to be left out of the Mediterranean Union.
During the last summit, the leaders of the EU countries drafted a compromise
that states that all the EU countries, not only those of the Mediterranean,
shall be members in the Mediterranean Union that is going to be established, and
that he Mediterranean Union continues the EU Barcelona Process.
The
leaders also agreed that he first meeting of the leaders of the Mediterranean
Union should be held in Paris on 13 July.
The
Maltese Government stated that Malta has a direct interest in the establishment
of the Mediterranean Union, although it is not yet known what form it will take,
how it will be run, what its precise aims are going to be, how it will work and
what Mediterranean countries are going to refuse to take part in it.
It
is not known, for example, whether Turkey is going to put aside its opposition
to become a member in the Mediterranean Union because it sees it as being
established so that it will not continue to press for EU membership.
There is also the issue of Israel
and Palestine.
Some
Arab countries object to the presence of Israel if Palestine is not also
accepted as a member in the Mediterranean Union, while Israel still does not
want a Palestinian State to exist.
For the issue to become more complicated the part of Palestine that touches on
the Mediterranean is being ruled by Hamas and not ruled by President’s Abbas
Palestinian Authority, whose territory under his government is in the West Bank
and does not touch on the Mediterranean.
There is no doubt the Mediterranean Union, notwithstanding all the uncertainties
about it, can and should be of great importance to Malta.
But
there is a need that this will not be the same as the EU and neither gives
opportunities to the EU countries to dominate the other Mediterranean countries
and impose on them political and social policies which if they are good for the
European countries, are not totally adapted suitable to the non-European
Mediterranean countries.
It will be fitting for our country to be on the forefront in the process of drafting the shape, the leadership and the drafting of aims of the Mediterranean Union.
But
our country is unfortunate in that it appears that neither the Prime Minister
nor the new Minister for Foreign affairs are eager about the future of our
country as the center of the Mediterranean, and no longer a colony at the fringe
of the EU and dictated what it should both internally as well in the relations
with Mediterranean countries that are not EU members.
We hope that the Mediterranean Union develops in a strong union which will be
useful for the good of the peoples of the Mediterranean and that in the not so
distant future the majority of the Maltese and Gozitans realize that their
natural place is in the Mediterranean Union not in the EU.
The European Union wants that by the year 2020, 20% of electricity will not be generated by fuel, but from other renewable energy sources.
That
is why in the press conference after the European Council summit, the Maltese
Prime Minister spoke about an offshore wind farm that the Government intends to
do 32 kilometres outside our island, that would be able to produce between 75
and 100 megawatts of electricity, that is about 20% of electricity consumption
in our country.
The Prime Minister announced that it had made contacts with foreign enterprises for this wind farm to be operated according to the latest models that make economic sense.
The
wind farm can be made by private investors, or by a company between the
Government and the private sector.
Once private interests are included in the electricity generation, this would mean that electricity will become a trade from which profit is made.
The
same is going to happen in the distribution of fuel from petrol and diesel
pumps.
The
Government is going to sell them to as foreign company, as wanted by the Union.
What the Prime Minister did not say is that for many years the Government totally ignored a project by a foreign company that makes wind farms had submitted to the Government, but that the Government did not show the slightest interest to discuss the project.
The private company more than once pressed the Ministers, and the Prime Minister, to consider the project, but these continued to ignore it, notwithstanding that there was a Nationalist candidate that represented the foreign company in Malta.
Due
to this lack of interest, the country paid huge amounts of money for fuel, and
the people paid a higher surcharge on electricity.
Thursday
20 March 2008
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