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

It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union

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The general strikes and popular protests and demonstrations in the European roads show the total failure of the EU’s neo-Liberal economic and social policy.

In these manifestations two facts highlight themselves:

* the anger against the austerity policy ordered by the EU,

* and the participation of thousands of youths fed up with the EU policy.

It’s not one or two sectors of society that are arising against the EU policy.

Protesting are

* the workers who lost their job,

* the employees who are seeing a reduction in their salary,

* the pensioners who are seeing a reduction in their pension,

* the students with great expenses

* and other sectors of the people who saw a rise in taxes.

The EU acquired three certificates for its the failure,

* the 23 million workers who are unemployed,

* the eight million citizens who are in danger of poverty,

* and the set up of the fund of €110 billion and €470 billion

* established by the EU countries,

* the European Central Bank,

* and the International Monetary Fund

* from which are to be aided

* Greece,

* Ireland,

* and the other Euro Zone countries who will be going bankrupt.

When with these funds the EU thought that it was going to solve the crisis of the euro countries up to the year 2013.

Now the EU felt that it may have further crisis in the future after the year 2013, so much so that it is setting up a permanent mechanism by amending its regulations to permit it to give aid to the countries who find themselves in financial difficulty.

For this purpose the EU is going to amend the Lisbon Treaty to introduce them in 2014.

The establishment of a permanent mechanism that may be able to provide bail-outs to Euro Zone countries means that both the loans of €110 billion to Greece, as well as the guarantees of €740 billion for the other countries, that will be going bankrupt, are not going to end after 2013 as was planned.

The countries that contracted the mentioned loans and guarantees are going to remain with the loans and guarantees that they made also after the year 2-13.

This bailouts story and of the permanent mechanism teaches us a lot.

The greatest lesson is that in the Euro Zone countries we shall have to live with the permanent threat that from one moment to the other it may happen that in one of the euro countries there will be a financial crisis that threatens the strength and stability of the euro, and therefore will be damaging to al the other countries, including Malta.

This fact means that it is not enough that we in our country manage correctly our affairs not to have economic trouble, because if some other country or countries do not manage their affairs correctly they will also put us in danger.

In other words,

* by making us members in the Euro Zone,

* they bound us not only to carry our cross,

* but also the cross of each one of the other 125 countries

* who have up to now adopted the euro.

Another lesson that we learned from the bailouts story

* and the permanent mechanism

* is that with the debt that our country already has,

* that is about five billion euros,

* we have to contract more millions in debt

* to loan to Greece

* and guarantee the loan to the Stability Fund of €740 billion,

* and to take our share for the permanent mechanism fund

* that is going to be set up on the basis of the amendments in the Lisbon Treaty.

All this means other new financial burdens on our people, from which our people is not going to benefit anything and is not going to make any profit.

The amendments that the leaders of the EU countries, including the Maltese Prime minister, agreed to be made to the Lisbon Treaty have the aim of obliging the euro countries to give their share to help the other euro countries that will be going bankrupt.

Therefore, with the amendments that are going to be made, Malta will be forcefully obliged, because it is bound by the Treaty, to pay or give its share, whether it wants or not, whether it can or cannot.

Today our country is not obliged to do so, and is doing so because our Prime minister committed our country and then the Maltese Parliament approved what the Prime Minister had done at the meetings of the EU member countries leaders in Brussels.

Instead of solving the bad situation in the countries hit by debt, with its policy the EU is worsening the situation.

Because every year the debt of the euro countries is increasing, as is happening in our country.

With the EU’s austerity measures the euro countries can never reduce their debt, can never reduce the lack of work they have, and instead increase wealth.

The EU policy that the EU is following is dictated by Germany and France.

The German and French banks and financial institutions have loans to the other euro countries of about one thousand five hundred billion euros each, and the governments of France and Germany want to see that the EU policy assures that their banks and financial institutions do not go bankrupt and collect back the funds they had loaned.

On the other hand the citizens of the other euro countries are guaranteeing this by the austerity measures that he EU is imposing.

While Gonzi and other politicians continue to brag how it was to our benefit that we introduced the euro instead of the Malta Lira, in many EU countries economists are discussing whether it would be better for some countries to leave the euro and re-introduce their currency.

Even in the important publication The Economist, in its 2 December issue were discussing the advantages and disadvantages of leaving the euro and the change over to the national currencies that there were previously.

Extracts from what was written in the Economist confirm that there is thought for countries to leave the euro that was adopted.

It is said, as an example, that: 

“The idea that the euro itself might also be reversible and that one or more countries might revert to national currencies is no longer unthinkable”.

The Economist mentions reasons for which countries can remove the euro, and said that:

“the main reason why a country might choose to leave the euro is to regain the monetary independence it sacrificed on joining and to set monetary policy to suit its own economic conditions”.

The British publication also said that

“… the idea of abandoning the euro looks enticing to some Germans. That appeal might extend to countries, such as Austria and Netherlands, with str­ong economic ties to Germany”.

The Economist also said that:

“weak economies might also hanker for a monetary policy tailored to their own needs. The euro may have abolished market-based national exchange rats, but it has led to marked divergences in real exchange rates. Consumer prices in peripheral countries have risen at a faster rate then in Germany since the start of the euro in 1999. So have wages, making it hard for firms in those countries to compete with Germany in foreign markets and with low-cost imports from Asia in their home markets”,

The British publication also said that:

“Countries at the eurozone periphery that face years of austerity and high unemployment inside the euro may find it harder to believe that things could be much worse if they left. A devaluation would spare them the grinding wage deflation need to price the unemployed back into work, though it would not address the economic weakness that lie behind poor competitiveness”.

While emphasising the disadvantages for countries if the euro is removed, The Economist says that:

“A determined country could leave the euro and establish its own currency again: nothing is truly irreversible for a sovereign nation”.

All this shows that it is a fact that the best European minds are discussing the advantages and disadvantages of the euro, while Gonzi and Fenech are continuing to hide the truth about the euro from the Maltese and Gozitan people.

At the same time that the EU is insisting that wages be curbed, it is continuing to increase the wages of its employees.

Now even the Members of the European Parliament agreed to increase their pay.

They agreed to take an increase of €1,820 every year as from the coming first January.

The increase is back dated to July 2009 and therefore every member is going to receive the sum of €6,300 as arrears.

Apart from the increase in their salary, the Members of the European Parliament were also given an increase in allowance on which they pay no tax, to €107,524 every year.

They also introduced allowances for food, travelling and to pay their assistants and office expenses.

Not all the members of the European Parliament agreed with these increases.

Marta Andreason, a member of the United Kingdom Independence Party that wants the United Kingdom to leave the EU, stated that the increase at these times of austerity in many countries, is shameful.

It is estimated that every Member of the European Parliament costs about €400,000 every year that come from the taxes of the citizens of the EU countries.

In our case, while this year we had to pay te EU €66.5 million, next year we have to pay €68 million from the taxes that the Government collects from our people.

The representatives of the European trade unions were right when on 15 December they gathered in Brussels to protest in front of the EU buildings to give the message

“No to austerity measures for everyone and bonuses for the few”.

The mass of the people is “everyone”, and the “few” are the Ministers and the Parliamentary Secretaries of Malta, who all gave themselves big increases while they greatly burdened the people with the removal of the subsidies and the increase in tariffs.

This is one of the reasons why many people are turning against the EU and against the governments that are implementing its policy.

The more time passes the more the people are being taxed while the EU and its leaders grab, waste and live in luxury.

The social Europe that the European countries build prior to entering in the EU, is being destroyed with the EU policy and its exaggerated spending.

Thursday 23 December 2010

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