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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

The only good thing that the Lisbon Treaty that has been signed by the Maltese Prime Minister on 13 December has is that it clearly states that we have a right to leave the EU whenever we want.

In this manner an answer is given to the question that many frequently make, whether we can leave the EU, once we have become members?

Yes we can, without any difficulty at all. 

The Treaty itself says so in Article 49A of the Union Treaty: 

“Every Member State can decide, according to the proper constitutional rules, to leave the European Union.

A Member State that decides to leave should notify the European Council with its intention. In the light of the guidelines provided by the European Council, the Union should negotiate and conclude with that state an agreement that regulates the conditions of its exit, while taking into consideration the structure of its future relations with the Union”.

Once that now there is no doubt that we can leave the Union, what remains for us is to see whether we should leave because it will be to our benefit.

First of all we should get it into our minds that even if we will be outside the Union, there is nothing that the Union decides that should be done, that we would not be able to, if the majority agrees with it, do it just the same as a people independent from the Union.

On the other hand, once we are out of the Union, there will be nothing decided by the Union that our majority does not agree with, that we will have to forcefully accept to do against the will of our majority.

This is the first advantage that we acquire when we leave the Union. 

We will regain our fundamental right to be led according to the will of a majority decided democratically in a General Election, not according to the will of the majority of the foreigners of the Union calculated according to the Lisbon Treaty.

Outside the EU, we could lead as is good for our people. 

We can, as a first step that comes to our mind if we do not remain in the EU, lower the cost of living by reducing the VAT on everything from the level dictated by the Union, to a lower rate that saves about 100 million Maltese Lira every year from the expenses for the cost of living to Maltese families. 

Not pay 12 million Maltese Lira less income tax every year, but pay 100 million Maltese Lira less from the 191 million Maltese Lira that we spend in the payment of VAT, by reducing the rate of VAT by more than half.

We insist that we reduce the VAT imposed upon us by the European Union, because this is a tax that increases the cost of living more than anything else. 

Let’s give a simple example of this. 

An object that costs Lm1, we pay Lm1.18 for it because of VAT. 

When the cost of the object increases to Lm1.50ċ, we do not pay 18ċ more, but pay 27ċ VAT on it, that is, it costs us Lm1.77ċ, notwithstanding that the rate of VAT remains the same, 18%.

This shows us that whenever the services that we pay for increase, that amount of VAT that we pay on them also increases. 

If a painter charges us Lm10 for his work, we will have to pay Lm11.80ċ because of VAT. 

When his charges increase to Lm15, we will not have to pay Lm1.80ċ VAT only, but Lm2.70ċ, a total of Lm17.70ċ.

It even wants us to pay VAT on food and medicines. 

When we leave the EU, we will be able to reduce or remove VAT and thus reduce the cost of living for everyone.

The LEADERS of the European Union were compared to circus artists who go from place to place playing their usual part.

Because on 13 December they gathered in Portugal for the ceremony of only signing the Lisbon Treaty, took a group photo and went for an official dinner and the day after, went to Brussels for the usual December Summit, again took a group photo and had an official dinner for which this time they invited the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Union countries.

Many were those who criticized the European Union for this wastage of funds, wastage of time and the excessive use of fuel for the aircraft flights that today took the leaders of the member countries and their numerous delegations to Lisbon so that the following day they took them to Brussels, when they could signed the Treaty in Brussels during the Summit, or hold the Summit in Lisbon when they signed the Treaty.

The environmentalists most strongly objected to this EU pantomime, because the excess trips that were made by the aircraft increased air pollution by gas emissions from the burning of fuel, while the EU ought to give an example of reducing as much as possible the consumption of fuel and air pollution.

It was revealed that when a proposal was made for the Treaty and the Summit to be held in the same place at the same time, Belgium did not want to give way for the Summit not to be held in Brussels, as is written that all Summits will be held in Brussels and that Portugal did not want to accept that the signing of the Treaty will not be held in Lisbon, once Portugal had the Presidency of the European Council.

For criticism towards the EU to increase, only a week before the signing of the Treaty in Lisbon, the Union organized another Summit of the leaders of the member countries and the leaders of the African countries. 

In vies of this, the leaders of the EU member countries together with their delegations, in just one week, had to go twice to Portugal.

These trips were also made by the Maltese Prime Minister with his official delegation and the media representatives that were taken for the two occasions.

Expenses are not a problem, neither the loss of time, notwithstanding that our country has gained nothing from these expenses and the attendance of the Prime Minister, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Malta’s High Representative to the Union, and other officials, in these meetings.

But similar pantomimes are not new to the Euopean Union. 

Because every month the 785 members of the European Parliament are taken to hold meetings for a week in Strasbourg instead of Brussels.

To do this, the Union is spending hundreds of millions of Ewros in expenses for transport of containers for documents and computers, in the granting of generous “allowances” to hundreds of secretaries and other Union officials, payments to the army of correspondents and media people, apart from the enormous expenses to maintain in a good state the enormous building where the European Parliament meets.

The union makes this scandalous expense every month to keep France that kept the right for the European Parliament to meet in a French city happy, although it has its seat in Brussels, which is the capital city of the European Union.

There is no need to remind you that the Union does not print the Ewros, but collect them from the citizens of the Union. 

The European Union “gravy train” continues to run for those on board even after the end of their services with it. 

This is because those who had worked for the Union are given a very good pension which does shame the very good pay that they have before they retire.

It is estimated that next year the total sum of all the pensions that the EU is going to pay those who have retired, is going to be very near the billion Ewros, to be precise 963.5 million Ewros.

The average pension is 70,124 Ewros every year to the Union ex-officials, from which they pay about 1,000 Ewros per month in tax and pension insurance fund, and are left with about 20,788 Maltese Liri per year.

The Union officials contribute 10.25% from their salary to the pensions insurance Fund. 

But only a third of their pension is paid by the Fund, and the remaining two thirds are paid by the Union countries.

The Austrian Prime Minister, Alfred Gusenbauer, has just said that the EU should reform its pension system, because with the increase in the number of officials due to the expansion of the Union, a problem was created because the Fund cannot meet the burden of the pensions.

Germany made it a condition that a student had to have studied for at least a year in the country to be entitled to a “student grant”.

Now the Court of Justice of the European Union decided that Germany has to annul the law because, according to the Court, the obligation to study for a year in Germany is an obstacle to the right of the freedom of movement of the Union citizens.

This judgment of the Union Court was given in a case that two German students filed when their demands for the grant of the “student grant” were denied because they were not going to study for a year in Germany. 

One of them was going to study in England and the other in The Netherlands.

The European Union Court interpreted “the right of free movement” of the EU citizens as meaning not that the citizens of an EU country has the right to go anywhere he pleases in the Union, but that it also means that you cannot deny him financial aid to study because he exercises that right in another country, not in his own country.

Although the Maltese Government did not say so, it was this decision that made it grant stipends to Maltese students who go to study in another country.

According to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the establishment of a Mediterranean countries EU would be a threat for the EU. 

In a speech that she delivered in Berlin earlier this month, Merkel insisted that the Mediterranean Union that the French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced that he wanted to establish, divides the Union countries because it would only include 7 from the 27 Union countries, which are France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta.

Angela Merkel insisted that every European Union member country should have the faculty of taking part in every form of cooperation that is made between the European Union countries and would have to have the approval of all the members. 

She insisted that it is not right for some countries to finance the Mediterranean Union from funds that they receive from the European Union.

Even the European Commission is afraid that the Mediterranean Union would be a set back to the initiative known as the “Barcelona process” initiated 12 years ago by the union, with the scope of creating a dialogue between all the members of the European Union and ten North African and Eastern Mediterranean countries.

Thursday 20 December 2007.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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