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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

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY DEPUTY THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

The majority in 2003 voted to become members of the European Union as it was at the time. 

Now the Lisbon Treaty has changed the Union. 

Therefore it is fitting to ask the people whether they want to remain members in the Union as it has been changed.

Not only did they not ask the people if they want to remain members in the Union as changed, but they didn’t even inform them how the Union has been changed. 

They left them in the dark about what there is in the Treaty.

They did wrong not to inform the people what is in the Treaty. 

But they did worse when they did not ask the people for a mandate so that in the name of the people they just approved the Treaty in Parliament. 

So that now the people will find themselves bound in a Union that they do not know how it has been changed and without having been given the opportunity to say whether they want to be members in it as it has been changed.

This story that after the people agree to become members in the Union, finds themselves bound in another Union changed from the first one, is going to repeat itself every time the Union decides to change its statute, without asking the people whether they want the changes, if not also, without knowing what the changes are.

Because the new Lisbon Treaty gives the power to the Union to change whatever it wants without the need of popular approval and only with the consent of the leaders of the people members in the Union.

In no democratic country do you find political leaders that have the power to change the Constitution of the country without acquiring the approval of the people either before they do so or after they do so. 

But in the case of the European Union, the changes in its statute do not satisfy the democratic test because the will of the members peoples is not respected, neither sought.

Serious leaders, and who treat their people and look after the honour of their country, should not accept that the European Union treats in this anti-democratic and abusive manner their people and their country. 

If they accept it, they show that they put the Union before their country and their people. 

The people of a country member in the European Union require quality leaders that look after their interests before those of the European Union, and to treat, if not better than, not less than they treat the European Union.

It is with great regret that we have to state that our country has had the misfortune of this bad luck. 

It no longer comes first and foremost. First comes the European Union.
 

The increase in the cost of living is being felt strongly especially by low-income families. 

The low wages, the pensions and social assistance are not holding step with the rising prices. 

Because of this, the standard of living of many is dropping and it is difficult for them to keep up with the cost of living.

The European Union policy does not help to suppress the cost of living increase. 

The Union insists that the market regulates the prices and the Government should not interfere to keep prices low. 

The Union also insists that he price of every object sold and of any service given have to be increased by the rate of VAT and that the price of products that come from countries outside the Union, it imposes common tariffs for all its member countries (Common External Tariff) that continues to increase the prices of products.
 
The European Union does not allow the State to subsidize food, or remove the VAT from objects and services, or remove the tariffs from objects imported from outside the Union.
 
Thus the Union does not allow the government to do anything to suppress the cost of living increases or reduce it.

This European Union policy does not allow the Government to adopt measures with which prices can be controlled, is an anti-social policy that burdens more those sectors of society that have low income.

It is better for the Government and the European Union that prices are increased, because the amount they get from tax will be greater. 

When an object costs an Ewro, the Government gets 18 Ewro cents from VAT, part of which is taken by the Union. 

If the object price is increased to 2 Ewros, the Government gets 36 Ewro cents from VAT and the Union share doubles.

According to official estimates, the Maltese Government is going to get 447 million Ewros from VAT during this year. 

This means that the people is going to pay for objects they buy and services that they are given 447 million Ewros more from their real price or that the people would have paid 47 million Ewros less for the same objects and services if the European Union had not ordered that VAT be introduced in our country.

A person that spends €100 per week for the cost of living, would have spent only €85 if the Union had not forced us to introduce VAT.
 
This is one of the damages that membership in the Union has caused us. 

Those worst hit are those who spend all their income for the cost of living.
 
On the strength of membership in the European Union, they are paying, those whose income is only €50 per week, more than €360 in VAT every year, when they would not have had to pay a single Ewro in income tax.

The abuses and irregularities in the European Union are never amiss.

Lately, a report on allowances that Members of the European Parliament are given for payments made to the assistants that they employ had uncovered a number of abuses and even cases of fraud.

Every member of the European Parliament has an allowance of  €15,496 every month for wages to their assistants. 

The total amount of these allowances for 785 members of Parliament amount to 140 million Ewros every year, around ten percent of all the budget of the Union.

From an audit that was made on a sample of allowances paid to 167 members of Parliament it resulted that there were many abuses and irregularities in the payments that the members declared that hey had made to their assistants.

In one case it was found that the allowances given to a member were paid to the children’s nanny, and in another case were used for the business of the member.

In the case of 18 members of Parliament, they did not have receipts for the payments that they declared they had paid to their assistants.

It was found that it was declared that sums were paid for the termination of employment of 42 assistants. 

With respect to ten of them, while it was said that employment had been terminated because the members of Parliament who used to employ them as assistants were not re-elected was not true because the members were still in Parliament.

In two cases the members declared that they had increased the salaries of their assistants by 71% and by 117% in the three-month notice period prior to the termination of the employment of their assistants.

It resulted in five cases that members of Parliament declared that they had paid their assistants exaggerated salaries, 19 times more than the normal salary that is paid to an assistant.

It was found that a member of Parliament made payment of the salary in a bank in a country where not only his assistant did not live, but neither did he deduct tax nor social security contributions according the employment regulations.

With respect to one part-time assistant it was found that during the last three months of his employment he abusively received payments from 12 members of Parliament for the sum of €8,890 per month.

It resulted that a company that provided assistant services to members if Parliament was of one of the members themselves, without the member declaring his interests in it.

The European Parliament decided that this report should not be published. There is no Maltese member in these abuses.

Thursday 24 April 2008

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