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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 European Union ordered that in 2011 the Maltese and Gozitan people pay it €68,000,000

€186,000 daily stolen from your childrens mouths

The Shipyard for sale instead of an inquiry

When the popular cry greatly increased to hold a public and impartial inquiry about the disastrous management of the Shipyard during these last years, the Government sought to downplay it by announcing that it is going to be sold.

During the previous month the Government received from the GWU a plan on how the Shipyard can be managed in an efficient manner.

Instead of discussing it, the Government hurried to announce what it had decided what should be done with the Shipyard and its workers.

It was stated that the decision was taken by the Cabinet on 9 June, but officially announced in a press conference which was quickly announced on 18 June.

There is no doubt that the Government did what it had been told to do by the European Union.

The Prime Minister himself admitted that the fact that the Government shall not be allowed by the European Union to help the Shipyard after 1 January next year, was a fundamental reason for the decision for the Shipyard to be old to foreigners.

Questions and suspicions

At the same time the Prime Minster said that during the last few years foreign investors wanted to take in their hand the management of the shipyard.

Why did the ministers hurry to pass on the property of the Maltese people to foreigners, when they could have hurried more to pass on only the management to foreigners?

If, as had been said by the government, during these last four or five years there were many foreign investors who wanted to invest in the Shipyard, why did the Government allow the loss of millions every year in the Shipyard, instead of grabbing the best offer of the most serious investor?

The number of workers

The Prime Minister and Minister Gatt insisted that there are excess workers in the Shipyard and their number must be drastically decreased for it to be more attractive to buyers.

For this reason the number or workers is going to be reduced by voluntary retirement schemes.

This does not make sense if it really is not yet known who is going to buy the Shipyard or part of it, and what plans he has for operating it.

Neither does it make sense to retire workers of those trades that are most needed, and not retire others whose trades are required less.

And if the number of workers has to be drastically reduced, how is it going to be assured that this occurs voluntarily?

To entice workers to retire, they have to be offered attractive schemes.

These schemes cost a lot of money that are going to be paid by the people’s taxes.

And they are going to be paid not to continue to produce more income from foreigners for the work that the workers do, but for the workers not to continue working more for the good of the country.

Everything is already agreed

Many are of the opinion that everything about the future of the Shipyard is already known and agreed by the government and the EU, but is hidden from the public and from the workers representatives.

On 12 May Minister Gatt had publicly stated that, “in a few months time we have to provide a solution as a Government about the way forward for the Shipyard”.

He also said that there is need for new radical thinking of the Shipyard management, because with today’s methods and with today’s wages, the Shipyard cannot make money even if work was being done in all the docks every day of the year.

Sine Minister Gatt’s statement on 12 May to 9 June, when it was said that the Ministers had taken a decision about the Shipyard, not a “few months” had passed, but less than a month.

At the time Minister Gatt had also said that the Shipyard had a secured future and that there were many investors interested in it, but that he greatly doubted in the Shipyard present form.

A public and independent inquiry

Cornered by the workers challenge for a public and independent inquiry that will uncover the worst management of the Shipyard during the last few years, the Prime Minister said that it is not the time to point fingers towards those who were at fault for the Shipyard losses.

But at the same time a deceitful campaign was continued on how much subsidies had been paid during the years to the Shipyard, and the Marsa Shipbuilding millions were added with those of the Malta Drydocks.

Its aim was to condition the people to accept that the Shipyard be sold to foreigners.

And at the same time the fault will be put on the workers, instead of the Government and the Shipyard management.

Because the Government knows that the millions that were lost by the Shipyard during the last few years (20 million were also mentioned on the Fairmount contract) were not lost by the workers fault.

Notwithstanding, the workers are going to pay for it by having to retire from work, and more will be last by the country that is going to lose so many trades and such a source of income from the work done by the workers for foreign ship owners.

In a local English paper, last week a letter was written by a foreigner, Robert G. Coenen, who lives in St Julians.

It’s title stated that the Irish shall not be bought - “The Irish are not for sale”.

It is fitting for the readers of this page to reflect on this letter of this European Union citizen.

The European Union put the fault on Ireland for the “No’ vote for the Lisbon Treaty, and insisted that Ireland has a duty towards the Union to find a solution for the matter.

The writer reminded readers that the Irish were the only people in the Union that were allowed to vote on that which was the Constitutional Treaty of the Union, which was given the coat of the Lisbon Treaty.

They gave their answer in the name of all the peoples of Europe that the Union had denied the right to vote and show their opinion about the Treaty.

You do not have to be a wizard to say that the majority of the peoples would have done the same as the Irish had they been given the opportunity to vote on the Treaty.

In his letter Coenen says that you should not change the rules during the game.

The political leaders of the Union countries first drafted the Constitutional Treaty, and when the French and Dutch voted against it, the political leaders drafted the Lisbon Treaty.

Once the political leaders acted in this manner, the writer insists that the time has come to deny the aims of the political union for Europe, and go back to the economic aims of the beginning, for which the Union was established.

He continued to say that the peoples of Europe do not want to have a super President which is not elected by themselves.

Neither do they want many Union official not elected by the people, to command the daily life of the peoples.

They do not want that the governments of the Union countries to create needless jobs for their members and these become the bureaucrats that lead the union from Brussels.

Neither do they want more photos of the leaders meetings, more holidays here and there, and more solemn ceremonies, like times of the emperors gone by.

Robert G. Coenen says that the governments of the Union countries forgot that the essence of democracy is to see what the people want.

The only way for the future is that the governments consider the requirements and give heed to what their people wish.

He ends his letter by saying that it is not befitting that we, the citizens of Europe be led by politicians thirsty for power, like in the Middle Ages.

We need not be isolated politically, but neither do we need to be led by Union bureaucrats in Brussels.

We are worthy of more true democracy, and we expect it today, not at some time which we do not know when.

We, CNI believe that the opinion of Robert G. Coenen is also the opinion of millions of European Union citizens.

Like him, we should have the courage to show our opinion about the European Union publicly, without fear.

If yes, help CNI in its work so that the majority of the people would want to get rid of European Union rule.