There should be no doubt that the agreement between the European Union member countries to build up a common defence means the set up of a military alliance.

There’s no doubt that a common defence of the Union member countries means that those countries bind themselves to help each other.

This amounts to a military alliance, that is, a group of countries that agree to defend each other militarily.

That is why the Union set up the European army that goes by the name of ‘Rapid Reaction Force’.

But our constitution clearly says that Malta cannot participate in any military alliance.

So when the Prime Minister goes to participate in discussions on the Union common defence, and when the Prime Minister binds Malta to send soldiers in the European Army, he is making Malta a member in the European Union military alliance.

Our Constitution is breached not if Malta participates in military operations when Malta does not agree with them.

Our Constitution is breached if Malta participates in the decisions of a common defence and when Malta participates in the European Army.

That is why the participation of the Maltese Prime Minister at the Brussels meeting last week on the European Union common defence, and binding himself that he sends Maltese soldiers in the European Army, are clear breaches of the Constitution of Malta.

The agreement that the Maltese Government made with the European Union that was put in the Membership Treaty of 16 April clearly breaches what our Constitution provides that Malta embraces a policy of neutrality.

The Nationalist agreement binds Malta with the EU regulations. In the EU Constitution there is Article 15 that provides that every EU member country should actively and without any reservations support the Union common foreign and security policy and must not do anything to weaken it in any manner.

If the policy of neutrality of Malta does not agree with the Union’s foreign and security policy, it weakens it because it does not agree with it, there will be a breach of the European Union Constitution that Malta with the concluded agreement, bound itself to follow.

This breach could be done away with if Malta had made a bilateral agreement or a Protocol with the Union on neutrality.

The not too good news that the biggest foreign company in Malta, l-ST Microelectronics at Ħal Kirkop, is going to take part of its production to morocco, should open the eyes of those who did not become aware that the agreement that the Nationalist Government made with the European Union is not going to entice foreign investment in our country, but is going to scare away the investment that we have to go to other countries outside the European Union, such as Morocco.

Notwithstanding that they bragged that in the European Union Malta will have a big market and could therefore sell more than it is doing when it is outside the Union, the ST Microelectronics story teaches us that this is a fib, among the many fibs, that they fed our people to steal their vote in favour of the Nationalist agreement.

How much Malta succeeds in selling it products in foreign markets depends from our competitiveness, which includes the quality of the products, their prices and in what time it can manufacture them and delivers them in foreign markets.

The greater part of things that are sold in European Union markets are not produced in Europe, but are produced in Asian countries.

Just the same, although the Asian countries are not European Union members, export many of their products where many of them are produced by European companies that opened up in Asia to the Union markets.

Today many of European Union entrepreneurs are closing their factories in Europe and open up factories in countries that are outside the European Union and are therefore not hindered by the Union regulations.

The same thing is going to happen in our country, where due to the agreement that the Government bound us with the Union, on the pretext of its huge market the entrepreneurs are going to emigrate from Malta to countries outside the Union, mostly to North African countries, such as Morocco and Tunisia.

The entrepreneurs and investors emigration from Malta has already started and is increasing the more the bad effects of the Nationalist agreement are felt.

Unfortunately both the Government as well as the Maltese industrial and financial consultants are encouraging and enticing this emigration from Malta contrary to the peoples’ interests.

There is another important factor that discourages investment from coming or be made in our country.

This factor is that because of the agreement with which the Government bound our country with the Union regulations, the expenses of production in Malta increased more than it was prior to when the agreement was made with the Union.

There is the third factor which is also a consequence of the agreement that the government made with the European Union which is working against new investment in our country.

This is the fact that because of the Union regulations, our country can no longer continue to give those incentives and benefits that it used to give to entice investment.

The prohibition of the granting of incentives and benefits is a disincentive for investors in Malta when they find that these incentives and benefits are given to them in countries that are not bound by the European Union regulations, such as Malta bound itself when it made the agreement that the Maltese Government signed on April 16.

It is in the supreme interest of the Maltese people that the bad binding that they found themselves in with the agreement that the Government has made, be unbound forthwith.

Until this happens, investment will be scared away from Malta and work and employment will not increase.

In the French Socialist Party there are different opinions on the new European Union Constitution.

The differences of opinion are great.

Notwithstanding lengthy discussions in party meetings, an agreement cannot be reached.

The French Socialist Party has different personalities known for their support in favour of the European Union.

Perhaps the most known Socialist exponent is Jacques Delors, who for many years was the President of the European Commission.

In Delors time, the European Commission acquired great power and if it were for Delors, the power of the European Commission should continue to increase at the expense of the power of the national governments of the European Union member countries.

But in France many Socialists are critics of the European Union, object to its policy in the employment sector, as well as in the pensions sector and of state aid, or rather the lack of aid, to industries.

Many French Socialists condemn the European Union policy that forces the national governments of the member states to implement in these two sectors, because its policy is the cause of mass unemployment and lack of jobs, reduces the pensions and denies the important industries from financial aid for some time to recover.

In the French Socialist Party there were always different factions of moderate Socialists, Extreme Socialists and middle of the road Socialists.

Notwithstanding their differences, the French Socialists find the means to work together in one party and for common purposes.

But on the new European Union Constitution that was drafted by the Convention chaired by the French ex-President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, the lack of agreement among the French Socialists is still very great on fundamental points.

An officer of the Maltese Labour Youths lately told us that he was impressed with the intensity of the political debate within the French Socialist Party, with the liberty of expression of its members have on many issues and with the strong will that the members of the French Socialist Party have that this free debate of opinion strengthens and not weakens the party.

Thursday, 23 October, 2003

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