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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

THE CONDITIONS that the European Union imposed on work at the Shipyard for the Union to accept Malta to become a member in the Union makes it difficult, if not impossible, for the Shipyard to work properly without incurring losses.

In short, the Union conditions are the following: 

·  Shipbuilding cannot exceed 10,000 compensated tons per year;

· Dock No 1 cannot be used for shipbuilding, conversion and ship repair for at least ten years;

· Dock No 1 cannot be used for such activities neither by other owners nor for other activities by the Shipyard;

· The Shipyard cannot be given any aid after 2008;

· The Shipyard productive workforce cannot be greater than 1410 persons;

· Limit on the total working time of not greater than 2.4 million man-hours;

· Ship repair and conversion cannot exceed 2,035,000 man-hours.

This means that if there is this amount of ship repair and conversion work, shipbuilding must be limited to not more than 365,000 man-hours.

If there is more work, the workers will have to lay idle or be sent home so as not to exceed the limit of 2.4 million man-hours or work. 

The Shipyard is bound by these figures for each year for ten years.

According to what was broadcast in the news, the order of the ten ships for Cala Corporation means that 2,300 of steel will have to be used each month.

This means that the Shipyard will have to use around 27,600 tons of steel each year.

But the Union bound us that we cannot use more than 10,000 tons of steel each year.

This is an obstacle for the Shipyard to accept the contract for the building of the ten ships.

Because the contract for the ten ships means the use of 27,600 tons of steel each year, which is three times the amount that the European Union permits us to do.

If the European Union gets its way, the Shipyard will not sign the contract for the building of the ten ships.

If we protect the national interests and the bread of the Maltese workers we should not submit to the dictatorship of the Union, and we should tell the Union not to burden us and prevent us from increasing work in our country, even if this will be in competition with other Union member countries  shipyards.

Malta First not the Union.

The membership of our country in the European Union has created more problems for us than it has solved.

And when the derogations that the Union gave us expire, we will have more problems.

A main problem that the Union has created for us regards the employment sector in our country.

Because of membership, a number of factories have closed down and a great number of workers have lost their jobs.

This is the worst stroke that we could have suffered because the lack of work in our country is always the greatest problem.

The new work that has been created in our country is not due to membership in the Union, but due to the ability of the Maltese and Gozitan workers to adapt themselves to new work and the educational and technical training that they had been given, without the EU having anything to do with it.

There is no doubt that if we had not become members in the Union, we had the means not to let factories leave our country and we could have reduced production costs that have increased because of the Union.

We could also have continued to use incentives that we had previously used to attract foreign factories to be set up in our country, but which the Union does not allow us to use.

In the employment sector, a great sacrilege has been made by the Union in the Maltese Shipyards, with the closure of one and by reducing the size of the other.

Apart from the loss of jobs, the greatest damage that has occurred was to the training of trades, because the Shipyard was the University of trades in Malta.

The best tradesmen were trained in the Shipyard, and our country will cry when it will not find enough tradesmen for our needs, because we are no longer encouraging youths to work at the Shipyard, and instead of taking care of the tradesmen that we had in the Shipyards, we sent them on work which is not according to their trade or sent them on pension.

This is what the European Union imposed on us to do as a condition for membership in the Union.

It's a GREAT DISGRACE! 

In the financial services sector, membership in the European Union is a great burden.

The Union made us remove those fiscal benefits (taxes) with which we had attracted foreign enterprises to our country because it did not want us to compete with the financial centres in the other member countries of the Union, as is successfully done by the Channel Islands and Jersey.

The financial services sector in our country grew in our country when we were not a member in the Union, and would have continued to grow had we not been subjected to the Union regulations.

In the energy sector, membership in the Union has cost us dearly. 

It disrupted the agreement we had for buying oil at a lower price than the market price, and made us impose taxes and levies on oil products.

Now it is going to make us liberalize the buying and importation of oil and thus the profit on it will not be made by EneMalta so that it could subsidize electricity with it, but the profit will be enjoyed by private enterprise instead of the public.

There is a need for the people to be told what we are losing with membership in the Union and not hear only propaganda about what is to our benefit with the European Union.

The proposal of a Mediterranean Union

The new French President, Nicholas Sarkozy, proposed the setting up of a Union of Mediterranean countries that would be open for membership of all the European Mediterranean countries, as well as all the North African and Middle East Mediterranean countries.

This proposal is of great interest for Malta to be at the centre of the Mediterranean Union proposed by Sarkozy. 

As much as we have to lose with membership in the European Union we have as much to gain by membership in the Mediterranean Union.

We should take the opportunity to immediately talk with President Sarkozy and show him our interest for his proposal and discuss with him what measures should be taken so that his proposal would be given life.

Malta should make this proposal it’s own and take the initiative to interest all the Mediterranean countries to agree with Sarkozy’s proposal. 

It is important for our country to take an active part from the beginning in the setting up of this Union to ensure that it will be a different union from that on which the European Union has been built and prevent the great defects and shortcomings of the European Union and not repeat them.

The Union proposed by Sarkozy should be the means to acquire among other things, the aims that the European Union has proposed years ago in Barcelona for cooperation in the Mediterranean and the aims for which the EuroMed Forum had been set up, but never gave the concrete results that were expected from them.

The crux of the Mediterranean Union should be to increase cooperation in every sector between the Mediterranean countries, not to impose regulations about the running of the countries and the policy that they implement.

Voluntary cooperation, not imposition would let the countries help each other to advance politically, socially and economically, but first and foremost for peace to reign and to protect the environment.

About two years ago, the Libyan representatives, the Maltese representatives and the French representatives initiated what was called the “Mediterranean Exchanges” with the aim of promoting cooperation between the European countries and the African Mediterranean countries.

President Sarkozy’s proposal is a development of the “Mediterranean Exchanges” concept in which the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dumas, had a share and which had also interested the Libyan Gemaherija high authorities.

Thus it should not be difficult to come to a French, Maltese and Libyan agreement which would be the centre around which the Mediterranean Union proposed by Sarkozy could be built.

We believe that the Mediterranean Union proposal would appeal to the vast majority of Maltese and Gozitan people.
 

THE FARCE about the examination for the adoption of the euro by our country was concluded as we had prophesized, with the European Union declaring that our country had passed with honours and that it can adopt the euro as from next January.

The exchange rate of the Maltese Lira with the euro was only make believe that it was still to be determined, but we insist that in fact the rate will be the same as it is today.

As we had expected, it was not unexpected that the UNION propagandists would boast that with the entry of the euro our country becomes a member of a club of economically strong countries.

Whoever is saying this forgot, because it is useful for him, that the big euro countries are not able to comply with the conditions that have to be observed for the countries to qualify for the euro.

Three of the big euro countries, Germany, France and Portugal have deficits greater than they can have (3%) of the GDP (Gross Domestic Product).

Another big euro country, Italy, has greater debt than it should have (60% of GDP). 

Greece had falsified it accounts to adopt the euro

All these countries are members of those who are economically strong, with whom our country is going to be a member, according to the boasting of the Union propagandists.

These propagandists also forget that three EU countries, the UK, Sweden and Denmark did not adopt the euro and their economies are doing better than those of the euro countries.

Two other European countries, Norway and Switzerland do not have the euro, are outside the Union, and have stronger economies than those of the EU and the euro countries.

All this shows that it is not the euro that makes the economy of a country strong and that a country that does not adopt the euro may have its economy moving forward.

Therefore we insist that it will not be the euro that will strengthen the Maltese economy, and that without the euro our country previously moved forward and can continue to move forward even if it continues to keep the Maltese Lira.

The same applies for foreign investment.

This is not going to increase because we adopt the euro. 

Many countries who do not have the euro attract much more foreign investment than the euro countries. 

Moreover, the lower the currency of a country when compared to the euro, the more it would be attractive for foreign investors, because a product made in that country and the service given in that country would cost less when they are paid for by the euro.

With the euro, Maltese products and services would cost more for foreigners. 

Thursday, 24 May 2007.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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