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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

While popular opposition to the European Union and its policies is constantly increasing, the President, the ex-President, the Prime Minister and other Union propagandists have showered praise for this European block and for Malta’s membership in it on the fifth anniversary of membership that occurred on 1 May 2004.

All speakers in these celebrations bragged about how much funds we have received from the EU and how many projects we have made with its funds.

No one had the honesty to say how much we have paid the EU and how much we have spent because of our membership in the EU.

They did not have the decency to mention the losses we have suffered because of our membership in the EU.

They did not brag how,

* as a consequence of the European policies

* and regulations,

* factories closed down and

* how many workers lost their jobs.

They neither said

* how much has the cost of living increased

* without the wages and salaries increasing enough

* to keep up with the cost of living.

Because of this,

* many families are finding it impossible to keep up with the cost of living,

* more so after having received the exaggerated

* water and electricity bills

* because the EU forced the Government not to continue to subsidize these essential services.

The EU protagonist speakers

* did not explain why,

* after membership in the Union,

* exports from our country have decreased.

They did not mention

* how much production expenses have increased

* and therefore we have become less competitive.

They hid

* that the entry of the euro continued to increase the cost of living

* and increase expenses

* and make us less competitive.

No one from the speakers reminded

* how membership in the Union destroyed the industry that worked for the local market,

* increased our national debt and

increased the moral dirt of corruption in every level of society.

Neither did they complain because following membership

* the management of important sectors passed on to foreigners,

* such as the ports and

* airport, and

* we denied the Maltese people from main enterprises,

* such as the biggest bank,

* Telemalta,

* the Post,

* Lotto, and

* the transport of merchandise by sea by Sea Malta.

It was said by more than one speaker that had we not introduced the euro, our finances and economy would have been hit much harder by the world financial and economic crisis.

This is not true.

We were not so hard hit by the economic crisis not because we had introduced the euro, but because the Maltese banks did not lose money in the foreign banks that had gone bankrupt.

Just the same this would have happened if we had kept the Maltese Lira.

After all, other EU countries that have the euro were also very hard hit by the financial crisis.

The same mistake was made by the speakers who insisted that had we not been members in the EU we would have been hit more by the economic recession.

All this is not true.

Our country suffered recession because the countries to which we export did not import because of a lowered demand and sales and because we had less tourists in Malta because they were hit by the same recession.

That is why recession in our country depends totally on the recession in foreign countries and in no way would it have been worse if we were out of the EU.

To make matters worse, there were some like Eddie Fenech Adami who insisted that we would just the same have had to face the thousands of illegal immigrants if we were not in the EU and we would not have had the help that the Union is giving in this issue.

This is falsity.

We have an illegal immigrants’ invasion because of our membership in the EU.

Because it was the same EU that forced the Maltese Government, led by Fenech Adami, to repeal al the reservations that the Maltese Government under George Borg Olivier had made to the Refugee Convention and thus we opened our country’s doors wide open for illegal immigrants.

Apart from this, the EU forced our country to accept the EU directives, known as Dublin II otherwise the EU would not have accepted Malta to become a member in 2004.

Therefore if we were not in the European Union, we would not be bound neither by all the provisions of the Refugee Convention nor by all the Dublin II directives.

And we would have been free to refuse the illegal immigrants.

All this gives us reason to say that the fifth anniversary of Malta’s membership in the EU served for the exercise of deceit and misinformation to the Maltese people to continue.

The Maltese people deserve better!

The EU wanted to destroy the Shipyard and found Minister Austin Gatt to do the job of the executioner.

Instead of as the Minister responsible for the Shipyard he did his best to strengthen it, he approved that it takes two conversion contracts for two Fairmount ships with prices and conditions so bad that the enterprise suffered enormous losses of millions of Liri.

How great the losses were remained hidden!

The Minister, instead of having the decency of resigning because of the Fairmount scandal, shifted the blame for the financial disaster on the workers.

The blame is his

* because as the responsible Minister

* he did not assure that the Shipyard be managed in an efficient manner

* by the executive officers appointed by the Government and

* because he never took any notice of the warnings that the GWU had made to him

* about this and the many abuses that occurred,

* both with the employment of foreign workers

* as well as the works that were given to contractors

* instead of being carried out by the Shipyard workers.

The Prime Minister Gonzi, when he saw the disaster made by Minister Gatt, did not do his duty by not removing him from a minister once he did not have the decency to resign himself.

Gonzi even hid his incompetence when he said that it is not the time for pointing fingers on who is to blame for the enormous losses made on the Fairmount contract.

Gonzi also absolved Gatt because he did not take notice of the insistence by the GWU to hold a public independent inquiry about the Fairmount scandal.

Gonzi’s blame about the Shipyard goes back to seven years ago

* when he accepted a plan for its restructuring planned by the EU

* that instead of strengthening it,

* weakened it,

* made it smaller and

* caused the loss of hundreds of tradesmen.

But the greatest blame that Gonzi has about the Shipyard is that he put it into Gatt’s hands who appears to have shown great enthusiasm to destroy it and made Gonzi who prior to the election promised the workers that he was going to make the Shipyard bigger and not make it smaller appear childish.

If Gonzi pardoned Gatt, the Shipyard workers and the people are not going to let him live quietly about the Fairmount scandal.

Gatt had said that in December 2007 he had ordered an internal inquiry about the Fairmount contract.

17 months have passed and he has not yet uncovered the abuses and shortcomings about those contracts that have caused the loss of great millions of Liri to the Maltese people.

It is required that the public must know what resulted to the internal inquiry and whom it had found guilty.

The Fairmount scandal is big,

* but bigger that that is the great scandal committed on the Shipyard workers who were blamed for its debt,

* when the greatest blame is of those who managed it wrongly and

* those who abused, and

* who was responsible for the Shipyard and

* did nothing for it to progress.

Notwithstanding the injustices that were committed on them, the workers are just the same ready to rebuild the Shipyard and want to manage it through a cooperative.

The workers have found support for this even from outside their class.

Among those who support a workers cooperative taking over the management of the restructured Shipyard, we find Professor Peter Serracino Inglott, who when asked what happened to his proposal of a workers cooperative for the Shipyard, in an English newspaper, thus wrote:

 “Much more progress has been made in the direction I envisaged than i had imagined was possible. It is on other fronts of the matter that developments do not seem to me to have been entirely positive. The sad development taking place is that management of the shipyard is deciding to close down certain sectors, such as the galvanizing plant, with the result that quite profitable opportunities of the work for both local and international clients are being lost.”

These words uttered by Prof. Seraccino Inglott show that there are still some who want to destroy the Shipyard, while there are some who are working to restructure it and give it a new life.

Austin Gatt is responsible for what is happening at the Shipyard, including the galvanizing plant.

Has Gonzi got the courage not to allow Gatt continue to destroy the Shipyard?

Why is the Shipyard not taking work that can easily be made by the 700 workers that are still there, so that now it is discharging some of them?

Is this what the European Union wants?

This is certainly not in Malta’s interests.

In the illegal immigrants issue total confusion, great misinformation and hiding of true facts reign supreme.

The latest comments made on the broadcasting media continued to perplex peoples’ minds when it was said that the illegal immigrants are very near the Armed Forces armoury and the airport and this fact is very disturbing because it could be a threat to our country’s security.

There is also no certainty about these basic facts.

How many illegal immigrants are in our country?

Every time the figures given do not tally.

How many of them have been given refugee status and how many are considered to have a right to humanitarian protection?

Neither is there agreement about these.

Therefore the first step that has to be taken is to establish once and for all and for everyone the facts about the number of illegal immigrants that are among us, how many refugees are there and how many are worthy of humanitarian protection.

The second step that should be taken forthwith is to implement a serious repatriation policy of illegal immigrants who are neither entitled to refugee status nor to humanitarian protection.

It is clear that this policy has been neglected and hundreds if not thousands of illegal immigrants have remained here instead of being repatriated back to their own countries.

An immediate decision that should be taken is that no other illegal immigrants be accepted in our country.

After all, it can e said that they all do not want to remain here and want to go to Europe. Therefore we shouldn’t find it difficult not to allow them to remain here and help them to leave from here after we have given them their needs.

There’s no doubt that we are in this immigration crisis because we have neglected sending them back or allowing them to go where they want.

There is a need for a public inquiry to establish how the millions that were given for the illegal immigrants were spent and how the millions allocated to them are better spent.

It is certain that the environment where the illegal immigrants are kept does not show that it benefited from the great funds that were given or are allocated for this problem.

Another urgent measure is that about the work that the illegal immigrants are being allowed to take when we have thousands of Maltese workers that are unemployed.

Work permits must not be issued and strict control exercised so that those who do not have a permit do not work.

There is no doubt that these abuses happened and are happening with the authorities’ blessings for the benefit of the employers and damage to the Maltese workers.

Thursday 28 May 2009

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