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and against Malta's membership of the European Union

WE SWEAR TO FREE MALTA FROM THE SLAVERY, COLONIALISM AND DICTATORIAL ILLEGAL EUROPEAN UNION RULE

With great sorrow and shame for our people the excellent facilities of the Shipyard are not utilized and the abilities of hundreds of tradesmen are thrown away because that is what the European Union which found Lawrence Gonzi and Austin Gatt to act as the Shipyard executioners wanted.

Now it appears that the aim of renting the Bormla Shipyard without the facilities for the maintenance of super yachts and the Shipyards great physical resources are today not being employed as it is fit.

The Government paid around €60 million to bring this disaster of the Shipyards stupendous physical resources.

But an even greater disaster happened to the human resources of the best tradesmen that our country had.

Notwithstanding all this, we have great faith that not everything is lost if the Shipyard workers take courage and insist that they be given the rent of the Shipyard, now that the facilities for ship repair were not rented.

Thus they will manage it by means of a cooperative that embraces all the workers that work in the shipyard.

It does not make economic sense that the Shipyard facilities that are very profitable are severed from the ship repair facilities which are more problematic to operate without losses.

Therefore, although it is known that there are already private parties interested to be given the Manoel Island Yacht Yard and the maintenance facilities of Super Yachts, the negotiations should not continue so that these parts remain together with ship repair and be operated by the Shipyard workers cooperative.

There remains the Marsa Yard where it is known that there are negotiations going on for it to be rented to private parties. 

Even if the plan to cut off the Marsa Yard from the Shipyard succeeds and it is rented, it makes more sense for it to remain the Shipyard property and is rented by it so that it will have the rent to help it in its financial income.

But better than this would be if the facilities of the Marsa Yard were to be also operated by the Shipyard workers cooperative for ship repair and ship building and steel works.

We should keep in our mind that in a commercial enterprise the private partner can offer the best quality of management and marketing, but just the same it needs on the quality of the work, work and commitment of the workers. Now the capability of the of the Shipyard workers is assured, and if they want to they can give the best work and commitment that they can.

They have to show courage and strong will and if they do so, we believe that the vast majority of the Maltese and Gozitans are ready to support them because this will be for the good and interest of our country.

The manner in which our country is doing as dictated to do by the EU on the question of illegal immigration is both tragic and comic at the same time.

It is tragic for our people that are going to face very serious social problems that the thousands of immigrants cause locally and it is also comical because while we do not want that the illegal immigrants remain in our country we do not want to allow them to leave here to go to the big countries in Europe.

And instead we are imprisoning them if they try to do so.

Last week we had two stories of boats with illegal immigrants that uncovered how the EU is treating us badly.

The first case was when a boat that was about 90 miles away from Malta that the Italians told us had 84 illegal immigrants on it, among them a woman who ended up giving birth on the boat.

By means of a helicopter the baby and the mother were brought to Malta. An Italian military boat stopped the boat with the illegal immigrants on its way to Sicily and pushed it back to Libya.

Although the Italians are like us in the EU, they did not consider whether the illegal immigrants had the right to be considered as refugees or to be given humanitarian protection and the EU allowed them to thus treat the illegal immigrants.

The second case was of a boat with 115 illegal immigrants that was sighted 20 miles away from Malta by some Maltese fishermen who told the Armed Forces of Malta about it.

The Army launches collected the immigrants from the boat that was staking in water and brought them to Malta.

Now we are investigating if we should consider whether these immigrants as refugees or give them humanitarian protection as the EU wants us to do.

In the meantime we put them in detention centres.

We could have provided them with secure sea transport to go where they left from in Libya as the Italians had done in the first case that happened last week.

The 115 illegal immigrants that we saved from drowning were going to seek asylum in Sicily.

They did not want to come to Malta and also not claim asylum here.

Thus we didn’t have any obligation according to the International Convention on Refugees to consider them as refugees or entitled to humanitarian protection whatever the EU says.

But the EU is using us to stop the illegal immigrants from continuing on their way to Europe and is forcing us to consider them against their own wishes as refugees or give them humanitarian protection and thus they will not be able to be allowed to go to the other Union countries.

According to the latest Union Eurostat report, Malta is the most densely populated country in the whole block.

Notwithstanding that our population is too big for the size of the country, last year we had an increase of 2,450 legal immigrants, apart from the entry of 2.700 illegal immigrants.

Every year we are giving the right to a number of illegal immigrants to remain and reside in Malta.

Among those that we gave this right to last year there were 272 Somalis and 216 Egyptians.

With EU membership we have suffered enormous damage in the immigration sector, not only illegal but also legal because of the right of the citizens of the member countries to come and reside in Malta.

According to the same Eurostat report last year we had an increase in our population of 2,450 legal immigrants, that 1,396 were British and 444 Bulgarians.

This population increase is of enormous damage for our country and we are suffering this damage because of the freedom of movement of EU citizens between the member countries regulations.

It is a policy against the national interests that we permit foreign immigrants to come to work in our country when we have thousands of Maltese and Gozitans without work.

There is an urgent need that the Maltese Parliament carefully examines the immigration in our country, both the legal as well as the illegal and should decide not according to what the EU wants, but according to what is good and in the interests of our people.

Until the Parliament does not do this, the immigration situation will continue to become more tragic for our people.

That is why there is a great necessity that the people sign the popular petition so that the Maltese Parliament forthwith curbs immigration in our country.

Adverts by the Maltese representation of the European Commission are appearing in the newspapers that say that the European Union propagandists are touring the squares of Malta and Gozo to show that the Union is near the people and to inform how what it is doing is so important because it touches the peoples’ everyday life.

We suggest to Dr Joanna Drake, who manages the European Commission office, to inform the Maltese and Gozitans with everything that concerns them and not tell them only that which appears nice.

There is a lot more that is hard hitting the Maltese people then there is good.

Dr Drake and her friends should inform the people how much VAT they are paying that the EU imposed upon the Maltese Government so that our country could become a member.

How many taxes we are paying on

* food products,

* such as meat,

* butter,

* banana,

* bread,

* sugar,

* wheat

* and cereals

when we buy them from outside the EU because of the tariffs imposed on them so that their prices will be near those of the EU.

It would be interesting if the Commission representative, while touring our squares, explain how the Union is forcing the government to implement radical changes in our country’s health service, which is going to mean first of all that thousands of Maltese and Gozitans shall have to buy their own medicines instead of being given free.

It will also be good that the European Commission officers tell the farmers why the safeguard clause that was supposed to protect them when the market for their products falls never entered into effect.

Those officers should also tell the farmers how they could get along when the subsidies are terminated in the coming years.

Now, after the water and electricity tariffs have exploded sky high, we have seen how a gas cylinder nearly doubled in price because of the removal of the subsidies.

It will be right and just that Dr Drake and her partners make a confession with the Maltese and Gozitan people and tell them that all this happened because the EU imposed upon the Maltese Government to remove all subsidies notwithstanding that the latter had promised, for example, that it was going to continue to subsidize electricity and never said that it was going to remove all subsidies.

Another thing that surely greatly hits all the Maltese and Gozitans is the change in public transport.

Are Dr Drake and her partners going to have the courage to tell the people that all these changes are going to mean higher fares and probably much higher than today’s fares?

Are they going to tell us that this change is also being imposed on us by the EU?

And what are Dr Drake and her partners going to tell the hunters and trappers when it was the same European Commission that allowed the Nationalist Government to deceive thousand of them after having assured them that it had got a derogation so that they can continue to enjoy both hunting and trapping in spring?

Because now, even if it should have spoken at the time prior to the referendum and not now, the Commission is belying the Government that there was any such agreement, so much so that it took the Government before the Court.

But at that time it wanted to trap the hunters and trappers to snatch Malta in its hands and it succeeded.

There are many other sectors were hard hit with Malta’s EU membership.

But you can rest assured that in the local squares you are not going to hear how they were hard hit.

All you are going to hear is only that which the propagandists paid by the EU think that they can impress with those who are ready to waste their time to go and hear those who benefitted from membership.

If you go ask them what they are earning every year and compare it with how you are doing. It is only thus that you will know with whom the EU really is near.

Thursday 20 August 2009

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