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

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The caprices of the EU and the servility of the Maltese Government are hindering foreign investment, commerce and tourism in our country.

The EU imposed upon the Government that the Libyans, our friendly neighbours, do not come to our country, as they used to do prior to Malta becoming an EU member, without having a visa. 

The procedures, the length of time and the payment for the issue of the visa are obstacles for the Libyans to invest in our country, and to come for their holidays, as they used to do previously.

Previously, they had invested heavily in Malta, carried out much commerce, and used to come here in their thousands every year.

The Air Malta Company made very good business with them.

Because of the visa, the Libyan investments dried up and only a few Libyan families continued to come to our country for their holidays.

All this loss for our country came about because of the EU political prejudice against Libya and the weakness of the Maltese Government who did not recognize how to defend the interests of our people.

Where the EU wants and where it is to its benefit it does not insists that citizens of a country have a visa to enter into one of its member countries.

On 8 November,

* the Ministers of the interior of the EU countries,

* including the Minister of the Interior of Malta,

* decided to liberalize the visa procedure

* for the citizens of Albanian

* and Bosnia-Herzegovina,

* and from next month

* the citizens of these countries

* can go into the EU countries without a visa.

In December last year,

* the EU,

* including Malta,

* removed the visa requirement for the citizens of Serbia,

* for those of Macedonia

* and those of Montenegro,

* and therefore they can come to Malta without a visa.

In December 2006,

* the EU including Malta,

* removed the visa requirement

* for the citizens of these countries:

* Antigua and Barbuda,

* the Bahamas,

* Mauritius,

* Saint Kitts and Nevis

* and the Seychelles.

In March 2001, the EU agreed that the citizens of a whole list of countries would not need a visa to go to the EU countries.

The list of these countries includes:

* Andorra,

* Argentina,

* Australia,

* Brazil,

* Brunei,

* Canada,

* Chili,

* Costa Rica,

* Croatia,

* Guatemala,

* Honduras,

* Israel,

* Japan,

* Malaysia,

* Mexico,

* Monaco,

* New Zealand,

* Nicaragua,

* Panama,

* Paraguay,

* Salvador,

* San Marino,

* Singapore,

* South Korea,

* United States of America,

* and Venezuela.

Therefore the citizens of these countries can enter into our country without a visa.

Once the EU permits

* the citizens of all these countries

* not to require a visa when they come to Malta

* or any other EU country,

* what reason can there be for Libyan citizens,

* neighbours and friends of us Maltese,

* not to be allowed to come here without a visa?

The EU knows well enough

* that for more than 20 years

* before Malta became an EU member,

* Libya gave us great help,

* invested millions in our country,

* and employed thousands of Maltese

* who found work in the country. 

Libya used to give preferential treatment to the Maltese over the citizens of other European countries.

It used to supply us with oil at a lower than market price to help the Maltese people.

With Libya we had a friendship and commercial agreement.

The EU ordered us to throw away all this and to insist that for the Libyans to be able to come to Malta, they have to ask us for permission, and we pass them through a lengthy procedure to issue a visa.

It is certainly not in the Maltese people national interest

* that we threw away our great friendship that the Libyans had for Malta,

* to appear nice to our new masters,

* who embrace great prejudices against the Arabs,

* and particularly against the Libyans.

It is not a security reason for which we introduced the visa for the Libyans to come to Malta, once there’s no need for the citizens of Israel to come here.

What more do

* the Japanese,

* the Mexicans,

* and the Brazilians have

* to allow them to come to Malta without a visa,

* while we do not allow the Libyans to come without a visa,

* when the Libyans are so near to us?

If some EU countries do not want, for some reason or other, that Libyans go to them without previously controlling who they are just the same it ought to conclude an agreement with the Libyans that they can come to Malta without requiring a visa, but if they want to go to some other EU country, they would have to have a bias for that country.

In this manner while the EU countries who want to control the entry of Libyan, continue to do so by means of the visa, we in Malta would not be denied from the advantages and the benefits that we had both in our country, as well as by having many Maltese, workers and traders, could go to work and trade in Libya without the obstacles of the visa, and the Libyans could invest in our country, trade with us and enjoy their holidays here without and obstacles, without the visa requirement.

With the entry of the visa for the Libyans, trade in our country suffered, tourism suffered and Air Malta lost. Hard hit were the Maltese who used to go to work or trade in Libya.

All this is because of the EU caprice.

In the l-Orizzont CNI page of 1 April, 2010, under the title “We should remove the visa for the Libyans”, we thus wrote:

“Apart from removing the requirement of the visa for the Libyans, it is also in our own interest to again conclude the previous agreement that we had before we became EU members, and which the Union forced us to repeal. We lost many advantages that we had with the Libyans both about work and employment, as well as in trade and investment in Libya. The commercial agreement with Libya is not damaging to our EU membership, and the Union insisted for the agreement to be repealed, for political reasons, and for no other reason. Today, many EU countries, among them Italy and Germany, seek to conclude commercial agreements with Libya as we Maltese previously had. Because of the EU, we have lost the advantage that we had on the European countries with the Libyans. It is in the interest of our people that we win back the trust and friendship of the Libyans. After all the EU is now no longer objecting to a commercial agreement between Malta and Libya because the Union itself on 24 March concluded an agreement that advances the dialogue and cooperation between the Union and Libya in the political, economic and social sectors.”

Today we insist on this writing with more force, and I hope that the Maltese leaders do not continue betraying the interests of our people not to be against the new EU masters.

A little prior to the 2003 referendum on Malta’s EU membership, they used to tell us to look at how Ireland and Spain had advanced when they joined the EU and because they introduced the euro.

Today we tell them to see more in what crisis Ireland and Spain have found themselves in because of the EU policy with which they managed and because of the euro they had adopted.

Ireland has an enormous deficit and is going to have to get a loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), at the same time as it is adopting an austerity program spread over four years.

Spain is greatly suffering from a very high unemployment, and it has already introduced harsh austerity measures to try to overcome the crisis that has crippled it, and to save itself from having to get a loan of billions from the EU and the IMF.

Many Spanish and Irish are today cursing the moment that they became EU members and that they implemented it policy, as well as introducing the euro, because both the EU policy as well as the euro are greatly to blame for the dire situation that the two countries found themselves in, and are an obstacle for the country to overcome the difficulties that they have.

Because the EU wants them to decrease public spending when they need to increase it because of the great unemployment that they have and because the euro does not allow them to devalue to be able to export more be able to recover.

These two countries, Ireland and Spain, that Fenech Adami, Gonzi, Prodi and Verheugen used to mention so much as an example of the goodness of the EU and of the euro, we see them today as evidence of the failure both of the EU policy as well as of the euro currency.

We hope that Malta does not end up in the same bad luck of these two countries that like them we became EU members and introduced the euro.

Or to arrive at the dire situation of the other EU countries, such as Portugal, and Greece not to mention others who are in great difficulties that are forcing them to adopt harsh austerity measures.

Because today in the EU there is total “rebus” and no one knows what will be the EU and the euro future.

The EU President has just said that the EU is threatened with a “survival crisis” because of the crisis that many member countries have found themselves in, and that is causing a great crisis for the euro.

The German Chancellor also stated that the EU is in crisis because of the threat that the euro will disintegrate.

The majority of the EU countries have a higher deficit than the rate established by EU regulations, and are burdened with great debt more than the levels that they should have according to the same EU rules.

The EU unemployment is very high, and with the austerity measures that they are introducing, should continue to increase in the coming months.

The unhappiness of the people was never as great in the EU as it is today.

The popular protests increased in number and harshness and no one knows where they are going to lead and if they are going to be the cause that some governments will fall under their pressure.

The last example is that of the Irish Government that is going to have to hold a general election too early before its normal time of the Government.

All this trouble in the EU countries is not to our liking.

More and more is troublesome because they have led us into in this bubbling cauldron without having the need and when we would have been much better if we had stayed away from it.

Because we have already had to get a loan of millions of euros to loan them to Greece

* and ended up to have to make good for the loan of €362 million

* that the Maltese Government have committed our country as our share

* for the fund of €740 billion that the EU has set u together with the IMF

* to guarantee the loans that the EU countries make not to go bankrupt.

How EU membership is not all flowers and blossoms we see it from the fact that the EU is expecting that there is going to be financial crisis in the member countries from time to time, so much so that the EU is setting up a permanent mechanism to work to overcome the crisis as they happen or before they explode. 

At the insistence of Germany, the permanent mechanism will have a Fund made up of contributions from the EU member countries and also from private sources.

Germany is insisting that in case that a country could not pay back the loans made to it, the funds loaned to that country from private sources will be the first to be lost and not the loans made by the other EU Governments.

The set up of this permanent mechanism evidences the fear of other financial crisis in the EU in the coming years, and of the bankruptcy of the States who would not be able to pay back their debts.

With the mess of EU membership, our country found itself in this financial tempest of countries much bigger than us, without gaining anything except trouble and be burdened of financial burdens together with those great ones that are already burdening our country.

All this apart from the EU membership burdens made up of the payments that Malta will have to make every year to the EU and that in the span of eight years already total around €444 million and €68 million of which are going to be paid to the EU next year.

In many EU countries discussions are being held on whether it is good that all countries have the euro, or whether it is better for there to be two types of euros, one valued more than the other.

It is also being said that once there is no political union of all the EU countries there could not be a monetary union with one currency for them.

Indeed it is being asked whether the EU can continue to live when there are so economic and social differences among the member countries.

And above all there is no popular enthusiasm for the EU.

Indeed there is a great cold.

In our country we need to discuss our situation in the EU with the aim of revising it.

We believe that the majority of the people are today against it.

Thursday 25 November 2010.

The Maltese people want Parliament to take steps forthwith to curb immigration in our country

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