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The big European Union countries – Germany, France and Italy – last week ended up paralyzed with strikes by millions of workers. 

In the previous weeks, there were many other strikes in other EU countries, among them Greece, Portugal, Hungary and Sweden.

All these strikes witness that the European Union does not ensure industrial relations without strife, and neither that the workers acquire their rights without having to stop from their work. 

In many cases have to stop from their work not to acquire higher wages or new benefits, but not to lose the benefits that they have and not to suffer a lowering of their income or the weakening of their pensions for which they have a right.

This is apart from when the workers protest against the loss of their employment because the enterprises either have reduced work orders or have to close completely.

It is in this industrial strife spread in the European Union, the boasts of the Maltese Union propagandists (among them unfortunately also some trade unionists) that the Maltese workers can put their minds at rest with the European Union sound hollow and false.

 
The sorrowful truth is that in the EU a minority of workers will be well off, while the great majority are threatened with loss of employment, or reduction in their working conditions, or in their pensions. 

All these strikes in the EU should teach us other thins in our country. 

The Union, contrary to what is happening in our country, does not consider strikes neither as a threat for democracy nor as actions of partisan politics. 

It considers them as normal legitimate actions in democratic countries and the trade unions should have every right to organize them, even if they can be held for unjustified reasons.

Therefore it is the hostile reaction in our country to strikes that is a threat to industrial democracy and not that they are a threat to political democracy.

We should learn another lesson from what is happening in other European countries as regards strikes. 

During strikes, discussions and negotiations between the trade unions and employers or governments should be intensified, not stopped (as happens in our country) until the workers actions are stopped. 

If the sides to a dispute discuss and negotiate during strikes, agreement would be reached in a shorter time and the strikes will be much shorter, for the benefit of all sides and the public that suffers with strikes.

The European Union does not allow the Maltese Government to give financial aid to enterprises to be able to maintain workers in employment, but it does not stop the Government from granting “unemployment benefit” to the workers when they are discharged. 

This is a morally wrong and economically damaging policy especially in the case of enterprises that export their products of sell their services to foreigners. 

To understand how the EU policy is economically damaging, we take an example of a worker in an enterprise that works for foreigners, and that has a wage of Lm100 per week.

If the enterprise cannot pay that wage anymore and therefore discharges the worker, the Government stops receiving the social security contributions both from the employer as well as the worker, that amount to Lm20 per week. 

Instead, the Government starts paying the worker around Lm30 per week in unemployment benefit.

If the Government, instead of paying Lm30 in unemployment benefit to the worker, pays Lm30 aid to the enterprise, and this with the aid can continue to pay the worker his Lm100 per week, it will not discharge the worker, and with the work that he continues to give, the enterprise gets an income from foreigners to whom it sells its products or services, the difference of Lm70 in wages.

But if this succeeds, the Government, for the Lm30 that it would have given in aid to the enterprise, would get back Lm20 in social security contributions from the enterprise and from the worker that would have remained in his employment.

In this manner the Government would be suffering a loss of Lm10 per week, instead of Lm30 per week with respect to that worker, and the country will continue to receive Lm70 per week from foreigners, and the worker will continue to spend Lm90 per week in the country’s economy (wage less than social security contribution).

In the case of an enterprise that sells its products or services to foreigners, that will be employing 1,700 workers that have an average wage of Lm100 per week, with the same calculations that we have made with respect to one worker, if the workers become unemployed, the Government expense will increase to Lm2,652,000 every year in unemployment benefits, while the Government will end up suffering only Lm884,000 every year if it gives aid to the enterprise of Lm30 per week for every worker that remains in employment.

An if this occurs, the country will continue to have an income from foreigners, for the work given by the 1,700 workers, Lm7,072,000 every year, and the workers spend Lm7,956,000 every year (wages less social security contributions) in the Maltese market.

All this economic gain will be lest when the Government implements the Union policy and does not give aid to enterprises.

The EU creed is the free market and for the free market it sacrifices the employment and the dignity of the workers.

But last week in the European Parliament a voice was heard defying the European economic creed. 

It was the French President Nocholas Sarkozy who addressed a plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

Sarkozy told the European Parliament Members that the EU is in a moral and political crisis, without knowing what are the aims and the reasons for the decisions that it has to take.

He therefore proposed the set up of a committee of wise men (experienced men) to discuss the way Europe should take in the profound crisis created by globalization and worldwide commercialization.

Sarkozy complained that the Union is making the mistake of considering that the economic values are everything in life and is not taking any care about cultural values. 

He believes that Europe will be respected in the world if it is seen to protect its spiritual values and the values of civilization, and if it defends with all its power the values of different civilizations and cultures.

But Sarkozy insisted at length in his speech about the protection that should to be given to trade and industry of the European countries. 

He said that it is not right that a protection policy is not implemented for the EU markets, because as other countries protect their interests, the EU countries should also protect their markets and industries.
 
The speaker asked why other countries have a right not to allow the importation of products that flood their markets and destroy their industry and the European Union countries do not have the right to do the same ?
 
He asked if other countries protect their agriculture, why should the EU not protect its farmers ?

The French President insisted that although the EU should be bound by the principle of market competition, it should not make a creed of the market competition. 

He continued to say that although the Union had chosen to embrace a policy of market economy and capitalism, this should not mean unbridled capitalism.

The members of the European Parliament clapped with all their might to Sarkozy’s speech. 

But for us in Malta, this is not enough if we do not practice it in our policy, as we used to do in times gone by when Architect Mintoff embraced the same policy that today is being preached by Sarkozy, when he granted full aid and protection to the Maltese industry and the market of Maltese products.

The EU is not lacking in press releases that it issues to the public on a daily basis. 

An example we can refer to is the number of press releases issued by the European Commission last year.

Last year, the Commission issued 1,907 press releases, not to give information, but also to justify its work and the Union’s work, and to show why the work was done by the Union and not by the member states.

Apart from the exaggerated number of press releases that are issued by the Commission, one should also consider the very long time that was taken to write them. 

Because for the final text that is published to be ready, it takes a lot of time and it passes through many expert hands in the many of the Commission departments and of many political consultants.

A study that was conducted on the Commission press releases mentions the case where not less than 15 versions of a press release were drafted before the final text was agreed. 

Notwithstanding, the press releases that the Commission finally issues will be written in such a way that they do not attract you to read them, and sometimes, even not to be understood.

Immigration to the European Union countries has now become a sector that the Union has the powers to decide its policy. 

What is happening in our country about illegal immigrants is therefore a consequence of the policy and regulations of the Union about them.

But the real situation of illegal immigrants in our country is not known, because full information about it is never given. 

The last information that was published in the newspapers raises many questions.

According to the Government, presently there are 1,7000 illegal immigrants kept in detention centers, while there are 2,106 that reside in government open centers and voluntary organizations. 

Together they total 3,806 illegal immigrants.

But according to the Government, from 2002 till now 7,000 illegal immigrants came to our country. 

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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