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The EU’s original sin
The
European Union countries politicians, including the Maltese politicians, forget
the important historical lesson that witnesses that, after all, every people
want their leadership to be in their country’s hands … not being led by
others.
We
have many examples of this in our time:
The Soviet Union used to embrace many countries.
It disintegrated and instead, today we have
*
15 independent countries.
Yugoslavia was a federation of
many countries.
It disintegrated and today we have
* Slovenia,
* Croatia and
* Bosnia-Herzegovina as independent countries from
* Serbia and
*
Montenegro.
The Czechoslovak union ended up
with the separation of the
* Czech Republic from
*
Slovakia.
The British had set up the Federation of
* Northern Rhodesia,
* Southern Rhodesia, and
* Nyasaland.
They quickly separated and today we have independent
* Zimbabwe,
* Zambia and
*
Malawi.
* Scotland
working
to be independent from England.
On the other hand we have the Switzerland case whose regions, although having
different languages, remained united together because they are governed by a
system of popular referenda to decide on the most important things for them.
But notwithstanding these contemporary historical events, the European
politicians, including the Maltese ones, want to integrate the people of Europe
into one superstate that will be led by the leaders of the European Union, and
will not let the national parliaments lead the European nations, stripped of
their independence
It is natural that the Union which the politicians are setting up does not enjoy
the popular support of their people.
Because
while every people want to be rule themselves, the Union wants to rule the
people who are members in it.
This is the reason for the lack of popular support for the European Union,
notwithstanding the millions that it spends in propaganda each year to try to
win the people support, and notwithstanding the fact that the politicians have
sold their soul to it.
The new Reform Treaty is going to give more powers to the European Union, and therefore the people of the member countries are going to lose more of their right to lead their own affairs.
This
is the original sin of the European Union that the Reform Treaty is going to
aggravate.
The Treaty is going to strengthen the Union leadership and is therefore very
bad.
Instead,
the Union ought to change into a union of sovereign and independent countries
that co-operate and help each other, not to be led like a flock by the shepherds
of the European Union.
The
EU policy is required to change
While
the government representatives of the European Union member countries are
absorbed in discussing the draft of the new Reform Treaty prepared by the
Portuguese who have the Presidency of the European Council for these six-months,
the leaders of the Union and of the European Central Bank are scratching their
heads about the changes that the new French President, Nicholas Sarcozy wants to
make to the Union and the Central Bank monetary policy.
Up to now, the Union monetary policy is based on the fundamental principle that
the European Central Bank functions independently from the Union and from the
member countries.
The
primary aim of the Central Bank is to curb price inflation in the Union, and no
importance is given to the Euro exchange rate with foreign currencies.
The Union also dictates that the member countries respect the Stability Pact
that requires that each government controls its expenditure and how much it can
borrow.
The
Union also insists that competition is to be unfettered.
But now the French President is also indicating that he wants to change a lot of
this Union monetary policy.
He
also insists that changes have to be made to the Stability Pact rules,
especially so that a government could borrow as much as it needs to implement
its economic policy.
He insists that the European Central Bank should not be totally independent from
the Union and from the member countries so that it will fix the Euro exchange
rate with foreign currencies in a way
that the Euro will not be too high and impact negatively on the prices of
products that the Union exports, and thus curb the rate of economic expansion
and the employment situation in the Euro countries.
Sarkozy insists that the Union monetary policy should be drafted according to the budget requirements of the member countries and not disregard them.
He
has already succeeded to remove from the new EU Reform Treaty what the Union
used to insist on that in the internal market, the competition must be free and
unfettered.
Apart from these changes, while the Chirac French Government had, earlier on
this year, bound itself that France will end the budget deficit by 2010, Sarkozy
has now informed the EU that he is not going to balance the budget income and
expenditure before another five years, up to 2012.
Contrary
to what the EU wants, he is going to decrease taxes with the aim of increasing
the rate of economic expansion of the country.
In
an article which appeared last Sunday in a local English newspaper, Doctor Josie
Muscat insisted that we should not sell Malta’s sovereignty, and that those
who, without the consent of the people in a referendum, approve that the EU be
granted more powers, as is going to happen with the new Reform Treaty, would be
traitors.
Dr Muscat showed that the Reform Treaty is the same as the previous Constitution.
He showed this by quoting what had been said about it by
* Valery Giscard d’Estaing, who had presided over the Convention that drafted the EU Constitution,
* the German Chancellor Angela Merkel who, as the President of the Union, conducted the discussions about the Reform Treaty,
* Josè Luis Zapatero, the Spanish Prime Minister,
* Diego Lopez Garrido, the parliamentary speaker of the Spanish Socialist Party,
* the Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi,
* the British Parliamentary Member Denis Macshane, who during Blair’s time was the the minister responsible for the EU, and
*
the Italian
Minister for Internal Affairs, Giuliano Amato, one of the vice-presidents of the
Convention that drafted the 2004 EU Constitution.
All these have confirmed that all that was of substance in the 2004 Constitution that was rejected by the people of
* France and
* The Netherlands
is found in the new Reform Treaty.
Dr
Muscat also quoted the Director of the organization Open Europe, Neil O’Brian,
who complained that it was never expected that the leaders of the EU countries
(among them the Maltese Prime Minister), were going to present the articles of
the 2004 Constitution, and that all they did was to re-number them.
In his article, Dr Muscat said that he feels nauseated seeing the cynical method
of the EU propagandists who are showing contempt towards their people by
changing a few words of the 2004 EU Constitution.
He said that what the Union is doing is
* covert “integration”, or better still,
* a step by step coup d’etat to create a European superstate,
or, what Josè Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission had called,
* a “non-imperial Empire”.
All
this is being done by the Union notwithstanding that 75% of its citizens want a
referendum to be held whenever a treaty that grants more powers from the member
countries to the EU is concluded.
* a burocratic institution,
* led by an unelected Commission and
* is not accountable to anyone.
Instead of decreasing the EU’s “democratic deficit”, the new Reform Treaty
* creates new offices that are responsible to no one,
* such as the office of the President of the European Union,
*
with greater powers that decrease
more our country’s sovereignty.
We congratulate the Graffitti Movement youths who last week held a public protest against the American military warship USS Kearsarge which was granted permission to enter our Grand Harbour.
This warship had a primary role in the aggression against Iraq.
In the statement that was issued by the Graffitti youths, they showed their
disgust that the Maltese political parties are welcoming visits in our country
by warships that pose as peace tools, while they are nothing except arms to
fight wars and destroy innocent civil people.
Visits
by foreign warships, especially in times of war, breach our country’s
neutrality policy and are against our country’s active role for peace that we
are obliged to follow according to the Maltese Constitution.
The American warships, wherever they are, are the target of attacks against
them.
Their
presence in our Grand Harbour is inviting the occurrence of an attempt that
would be very damaging to our country’s security and cause great damage to our
tourism industry.
The same must be said about the building of a new American embassy on a large
piece of land at Ta’ Qali, that many consider as an American military base in
our country.
As
they have done about the warships in our seas, the political parties have
forgotten the protection of the security of our people and the implementation of
a policy of neutrality and approved the establishment of this American base on
our land, under the pretext of a large embassy.
Our neutrality is not strengthened by welcoming among us foreign military
forces, as well as neither can peace be brought by arms and war machinery.
The European Union is full of foreign military bases –
* in Italy,
* in Germany,
* in England,
* in Poland,
* in the Czech Republic
–
and the Union is not curbing the armaments, but is constantly increasing them
and is building its army.
The European Union did not renounce to the use of nuclear arms that two member
countries have – England and France – as well as it is doing nothing for the
removal from the Union countries nuclear armaments that the American military
forces have in Europe.
That is why in the eyes of other countries people, the EU is a military power,
and unfortunately, Malta is considered as forming part of it and no longer
rejects the use of arms.
WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION
Thursday 23 August 2007.
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