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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

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The workers, the employees, the pensioners, and the beneficiaries of social aid in Malta and Għawdex should remember that the rights they are enjoying were acquired before Malta joined the EU in 2004.

They should also become aware that the austerity policy that the EU wants the member countries implement today is a threat to these rights and benefits.

It was the workers Government who, in 1974,

* introduced in the country the national minimum wage

* for the workers and employees in every sector.

Today the EU is against that the State regulates the wages and salaries, and wants to leave them in the hands of market forces.

It was the Workers Government who in the Seventies made

* that the cost of living increase be given by law to every worker and employee

* and that the cost of living increase be also given to pensioners

* and to those who were on social benefits.

The EU policy today is that it discourages that wages and salaries increase by law according to the cost of living increase.

It was workers governments who in 1948 and 1956

* enacted laws on the basis of which

* the State pays a pension to old people

* and to workers and to all employees who retire from work due to age

* or because of disease or injury at work.

Today the EU is insisting

* that the State is not able to carry the burden for the payment of these pensions,

* and wants that the workers and employees to pay private companies

* so that these companies assures them the payment of their pension.

It was the workers governments of 1955 and 1971

* who introduced all the benefits for Social Protection

* that the people are enjoying now,

* but the EU wants to reduce them,

* because it insists that they are a great burden on the State.

It was a workers government that introduced in our country the principles

that education should be free for everyone

and that hospital care would also be given free to everyone.

But the EU is insisting on a policy that both the education services, as well as those of health, should be privatized and be against payment.

All this shows that the EU policy is a threat

* to the rights and benefits of the workers,

* that the employees,

* the pensioners

* and the beneficiaries of the social services

*  had acquired before our country became an EU member.

And neither does it make good for all these losses the EU policy in the working sector

* because it reduces the opportunities for work,

* not increase them,

* as is evidenced by the unemployment which has increased

* following our EU membership.

This is not only happening in our country,

* but in all the countries of the EU

* where unemployment today is of 26 million persons,

* and in the 16 Euro Zone countries,

* including Malta,

* unemployment has exceeded 16 million.

Last 27 th April, the European Commissioner on Social Services and employment himself, Lazlo Andor, admitted that there is still no Social Europe (“We don’t have a social Europe yet”).

John Monks, the General Secretary of the European Trade Union the ETUC, last Monday, warned that the social situation is very bad following the austerity measures that were taken in many EU countries.

He continued to say that: “This is extremely dangerous. This is 1931. We are heading back to the 1930s, with the Great Depression and we ended up with militarist dictatorship. I am not saying we are there yet, but it is potentially very serious, not just economically, but politically as well.”

The ETUC General Secretary announced that the date of the 29 the of next September, is going to be a ‘day of action’ in which the trade unions of the EU member countries are to protest organize strikes and demonstrations against the austerity measures that the EU is encouraging the governments of the member countries to take.

In our country,

* the Government has already introduced austerity measures

* when it removed the subsidy

* and increases sky high

* the water and electricity tariffs

* without increasing by the same amount the wages

* and salaries

* and pensions,

* and when it stopped the subsidy for the Dockyard

* and as a consequence of that measure,

* 1,700 tradesmen employment was terminated.

The EU frequently pressures the Maltese Government

* to reduce the spending on the health

* and education services

* and to decrease the expense of the public sector,

* and to change the pensions system

* and reduce the burden of their payment.

It appears that another austerity measure is going to be that

* the Maltese Government removes the summer half days

* for the government workers and employees

* and thus increase their working hours,

* without increasing their wages.

Whoever is honest, and did not sell his soul to the EU should admit that we do not have a Social Europe, but an EU that is socially unjust and politically in chaos.

It is an obscene EU policy

* that it is forcing us to incur debt

* to loan it to her for the banks,

* €74 million in the case of the Greek debt

* and between €350 and €400 million

* in the case of the other EU countries

* who cannot pay their debt to the banks,

* while we are giving it another €66 million this year

* and after during the last five years that we have been EU members,

* it has already taken from us more than €300 million.

The Maltese people are being betrayed.

In the referendum campaign on European Union membership, the Prime Minister Fenech Adami, wrote an article with the title “A better Future for Us All” in the supplement of a Sunday newspaper, 23 February, 2003.

He thus wrote

“I am absolutely convinced that EU membership will have an extremely positive impact on our country. Our quality of life and standard of living will improve. Consumers will have more choice. Workers rights will be safeguarded and strengthened. Our environmental sector, infrastructure and roads will be upgraded. Economic growth, trade and investment will increase as a result of being part of a 500 million strong market. Politically, we will be anchored in the most progressive and modern block in the world and our democracy will be reinforced and protected. We will have more security and peace of mind. Internationally we will have more clout than we have today and as an EU member Malta can really make a positive contribution to peace and stability in both Europe and the Mediterranean.”

If we examine one by one what was written in that article, we find that nothing was implemented from what was predicted to happen.

It cannot be said that during the six years that we have been European Union members, the impact was very positive, because in many more sectors we went backwards rather than forward as in other sectors.

It is certain that for many sectors of our people the quality of life did not get better, if it didn’t also get worse, and the standard of living did not increase, but decreased.

It can neither be said that the consumers have more choice of products following European Union membership, because the market and trade in Malta had been totally liberalized in the years prior to European Union membership in 2004.

As regards the rights of workers and employees, membership in the European Union was negative be cause many workers and employees suffered a reduction in their working condition and thousands indeed lost their employment as a consequence of the European Union policy and regulations.

Today, many workers and employees fear to complain on their work because they are easily discharged and their employers war them that instead of them they have hundreds ready to take their place.

In the environment sector notwithstanding that we became European Union members,

* it is still polluted as it was or worse,

* noises increased not decreased

* and construction works that destroy the environment

* are still being carried out without the EU objecting,

* such as in the case of the power station extension in Dellimara,

* and the permits that are given for buildings in zones where no development should be made.

New projects and better roads were made prior to European Union membership from the Italian Protocol funds, as is evidenced by the roads that were made for the Queen’s visit and the meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers.

In the case of the infrastructure, the country did not move forward with European Union membership, so much so that electricity is frequently cut off.

Even in the expansion of the economy and trade in our country

* it is not the fruit of European Union membership,

* because we had a rate of expansion much more in the years prior to membership in 2004,

* and because of the European Union policy,

* exports from our country decreased

* because the manufacturing industry decreased

* notwithstanding that we entered into a market of 500 million persons.

The same can be said on foreign investment in our country.

The rate of foreign investment decreased not increased

* when Malta became a European Union member

* and this reduction appears more in the Libyan investment.

Politically our country did not acquire anything when it anchored itself with the European Union

* because the European Union is not the biggest progressive and modern block,

* and because it was overtaken by many other regions in Asia and America.

And in the democratic sector, it cannot be said that our country made any progress because of European Union membership.

On the contrary,

* the fact that the European Union suffers from a democratic deficit

* and the fact that many decisions are taken for us by the European Union foreigners

* that do not represent the will of our people,

* are a denial of the democratic system.

European Union membership did not increase our security but reduced it

* because the European Union foreign policy

* is overcoming our country’s neutrality

* and exposing us to the same threats

* that the European Union countries are exposed to,

* and instead of a mind at rest,

* our people ended up with a headache

* because of the financial and economic crisis

* that the European Union is passing through

* and great unemployment.

In relations with foreign countries, Malta’s weight did not remain what it was when our country had an independent voice.

Today Malta’s voice has been lost in the common choir of the European Union countries.

That’s why Malta’s share in working for peace and stability in the Mediterranean and the world are subject to the European Union common policy which is not a policy of neutrality based on non-alignment.

Everything that Fenech Adami wrote ion the impact did not become a reality.

The people are suffering because of this and to cap it all having to pay millions every year to the European Union, €66 million this year, apart from €74million and between €350 and €400 million euros because of the debt of the other European Union countries.

In the Sky News news it was said that the French Government is suggesting that for no more enormous economic crisis to happen in the European Union member states that have the euro as their currency, there is a need to establish one economic “government” for all the states that are in the Euro Zone.

It was said that there are already governments that are agreeing with this proposal.

If this had to happen, this European Union “government” would start interfering even on the tax systems that until now is still the competence of the national governments.

It will be a “government” that interfered directly in what measures must be taken in every Euro Zone country to reduce the deficit and national debt.

And thus it will have every excuse to interfere more and more on pensions and the retirement age from work.

There are some who are insisting that the European Commission

is already suggesting that pensionable age

should be increased to 70 years.

What amazes me is that in our country neither the politicians nor those who are supposed to be first class economists, never predicted or wrote anything about this news.

And we come to know about them only from foreign newspapers and stations.

An interesting report that appeared in the newspaper The Democrat (May – June 2010)

* throws light on the real reason why the Euro Zone members states including Malta

* are having to spend and guarantee great millions and billions of euros,

* both so that Greece will be able to pay the great debt that it has,

* as well as if other similar cases similar to Greece’s,

* there will already be guaranteed funds to do the same with those countries

* as is being done with Greece.

Malta, as you know,                                                                                

* is going to have to pay €74 million during the coming three years,

* and to guarantee another sum between €350 and €400 million.      

In The Democrat report it is said

* that the true reason is not that which is officially stated,

* but to protect the big German

* and French banks that had loaned great billions of euros to Greece.

The report states that the Greek Government

* has to give the French banks about €60 billion,

* and to the German banks about another €40 billion.

And that is why this bailout is going to be used to pay this debt and not to defend the public services.

The EU is simply protecting the biggest European banks

* while insisting on more and more austerity

* to cater for the needs of the big states

* and the big businessmen that support them.

Thursday 24 June 2010

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