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

It is not true that we cannot leave the European Union

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While the European Union ordered the Maltese Government to curb expenditure and reduce the deficit, it did not curb and reduce the amount of money that it takes from the Maltese people every year.

According to the financial estimates last Monday in Parliament, the Maltese people are going to have to pay to the EU in 2011 the sum of €68 million.

This means that in 2011

* Malta will have to pay to the EU

* €186,000 every day,

* and that every Maltese citizen,

* including children,

* are going to have to pay €170,

* because we are under its yoke.

According to the same financial estimates,

* in 2009 Malta paid the EU €62,894,239,

* and in 2010 must pay €66,500,000,

* and next year,

* Malta is going to pay to the EU one and a half million more than this year.

When they spoke on television,

* both the Prime Minister

* as well as the Minister for Finance

* were too ashamed to mention how much the European Union is charging us

* to have us under its yoke.

The European is passing through a crisis.

The popular protests and riots

* are spreading through the cities

* of many European Union countries:

* Italy,

* Spain,

* Portugal,

* Greece,

* England,

* France,

* Hungary,

* in the Czech Republic,

* in Romania

* and other EU countries.

The people are protesting

* against the policy dictated by the EU

* of the reduction of social benefits,

* changing for the worse of the pensions conditions,

* increase in taxes,

* reduction of wages

* and salaries,

* and even mass discharges from employment.

The EU is forcing the governments of the Member Countries to reduce their spending and decrease their debt, and is threatening them to fine them heavily if they do not do so.

It is also threatening Malta that it is going to fine it “10 million every year.

At the same time that the EU is forcing the Member Countries to put up their share of the sum of €110 billion that are being loaned to Greece and to make good for their share for the sum of €740 billion with which the EU wants to help its other countries that will be in danger of going bankrupt.

Malta’s share for Greece is €74 million and in the set up of the fund to guarantee for the other EU countries, is between €350 and €400 million.

It is right that the people of the EU countries are protesting against the economic and social policy dictated by it, because they were promised that they will better their situation when they encouraged them to join the EU and are now finding that instead they are now going to have to accept to lower their standard of living.

The people are seeing the burdens are increasing for the masses, while for the few, their wealth is increasing.

This social injustice is also occurring in our country, where the few on top are being given many benefits when they already have very high salaries, while for the employees and workers the wages are low and are not enough to make good for the increased cost of living and in the living expenses.

The crisis of many EU countries is both financial and economic.

In the financial sector, only two from the 27 EU countries (Sweden and Estonia) did not breach the EU Stability and Expansion Pact on the amount of debt of not more than 60% of the Gross Domestic Product and on the unbalance or deficit not to be greater than 3% of the Gross Domestic Product.

The 25 countries breached either one of these rules or both.

This year, Malta breached both, and next year, it is going to breach the regulation on the amount of national debt, which is estimated that it is going to be about 70% of the Gross National Product.

The EU “bail-outs” of €110 million and of €740 billion are not going to decrease the debts that the countries have and to whom this money is going to be loaned.

Because some of the countries are not going to take the loan to pay the debt they already have, and therefore all they are going to do is to pay their present creditors by substituting them for other creditors.

Other countries,

* with the loans they are going to get from the “bail-outs”,

* they are going to pass them on to their banks

* that if they are not given great aid of many millions,

* or probably billions of euros,

* will go bankrupt.

In the first case, in the substitution of creditors, probably from the “bail-outs” loans, the EU loans are going to be at a lower rate of interest than that which the countries are presently paying, and therefore with the saving they are going to save on the interests they are presently paying will decrease their unbalance or deficit of the year.

But the unbalance or deficit of the countries is not going to decrease with some “bail-out” from the EU.

The European Union forced the Member Countries to reduce their unbalance or deficits by the governments adopting harsh measures of austerity by reducing their expenditure and increase income (revenue) during the year.

Many of the harsh austerity measures are going to hit the masses:

* the workers,

* employees,

* senior persons,

and those who depend on social services.

That is why big protests

* and riots are being held in the cities of the EU countries,

* among them the big protest of about 100,000 European trade union members,

* which happened in Brussels,

* the EU’s capital,

* at the end of last September.

The EU leaders decided on the “bail-outs” of €110 billion and of €740 billion to save the euro from failure.

The EU countries are going to pay their share from the “bail-outs”,

* are shouldering with their burdens because of the euro,

* and because the EU imposed on the member countries to adopt the euro,

* is going to have to take a loan of €47 million to loan them to Greece,

* and is guaranteeing a loan of between €350 million and €400 million

* to help other euro countries.

Malta would not have had to shoulder this burden if it had retained the Malta Lira and not adopted the euro, as the EU wanted.

Instead of benefits, the euro brought more financial burdens for Malta.

The EU bankrupting policy in the financial sector left a huge negative effect on the economic sector, so much so that many EU countries are passing through an economic crisis that is causing unemployment of more than 23 million workers and a reduction in consumption and trade.

In many EU countries

* hundreds of factories have closed down,

* reduced production and exports,

* thousands of jobs were lost,

* and if the economy did not contract,

* it reduced the rate at which it was expanding.

The main cause of all this is the EU policy on the free transfer of capital from the EU countries

and the liberalization of importation in EU countries.

This EU policy brought the result that great amounts of capital from EU countries were invested in countries outside the EU, a big share of manufacturing that used to be made in the EU, was taken to countries outside the UE and is imported and sold in the EU on the strength of the liberalization of importation.

The unemployment of 23 million is mostly caused by this disastrous EU economic policy.

Neither the enormous “bail-outs” of EU billions of euros, nor the harsh austerity measures ordered by the EU are going to solve the economic crisis of many of the EU countries.

Indeed, many prominent persons both in the financial as well as the economic sectors, insist that the decisions that the EU is taking to try to overcome the financial crisis and the economic crisis are going to worsen not better the crisis in the two sectors.

They insist hat the EU needs to radically change the policy that it has been working with and which it imposed on its member countries.

The first thing that the EU must understand is that the different circumstances of the member countries require different financial and economic measures that are suitable for their particular circumstances, and that a uniform policy for all the UE countries causes damage not benefits for some of them.

In the second place,

* the EU should understand

* that measures that subdue economic expansion

* are going to worsen the economic and social situation,

* and are going to lower the standard of living

* of the people hit by the measures.

For the crisis that is hitting many EU countries, an alternative to the neo-liberal policy that the EU embraces, as it has just been sustained by the European Parliament in its 20 October meeting when it adopted a report prepared by the Special Committee that was set up about the financial, economic and social crisis.

The neo-liberal austerity EU policy

* is probably going to increase recession,

* cause social strife,

* increase unemployment,

* when what are needed are huge investments

* to create work and increase jobs.

While the EU leaders are hurting the masses of the people with harsh austerity measures, they did not introduce a tax on financial transactions and banks when it was the financial institutions and the banks that caused the world financial crisis.

Not only, but the EU encouraged the Member Countries governments to give financial institutions and the banks billions of euros to save them from drowning, and now the governments are being forced to collect the billions that they gave then from the mass of the people with harsh austerity measures.

It was useless for the people to expect that the European Parliament members to see social justice and the financial sufferings that the EU policy is creating.

The majority of the European Parliament Members showed that they were insensitive for the popular opposition spread throughout all the EU countries, and approved the taking of more harsh austerity measures that are going to uncover how the EU is not democratic and does not have a social conscience.

Malta, as long as it remains an EU member, has to implement the EU policy.

But Malta is also responsible for the drafting of the EU policy, because the Maltese Prime Minister takes part in the taking of the EU decisions.

Therefore Malta, if it does not show that it does not agree with the disastrous and unjust social EU policy, will have its share of the guilt for the bad consequences of that policy.

The negative effects of the disastrous EU policy are being felt by our people, because following Malta’s EU membership, the mass of the families saw their standard of living lowered because the income of the families is not increasing as much as the cost of living and living expenses are increasing.

Another effect of EU membership and EU policy was the closure of many factories and the laying off of thousands of workers, as well as the reduction in the working conditions of thousands of other workers.

All the country was badly hit by the EU policy on illegal immigrants and with the presence of thousands of foreigners from EU countries who are taking the bread of the Maltese.

Exports from Malta decreased                  

* and national debt continued to increase,

* while every year our country                 

* has to pay great millions of euros         

* to the European Union.                          

But it in the social sector that the EU policy is the greatest threat for the Maltese people.

Because prior to our country joining the UE,                                    

* the Maltese people acquired the best social services in Europe,

* on the basis of the policy of social justice                                     

* implemented in Malta free from foreign rule.                               

The EU policy,

* instead of strengthening our social services,

* is threatening them

* because its neo-liberal policy

* cares more for the upper sectors of the people to be strengthened,

* than the mass of the people to go higher and increase the standard of living.

Not only in Malta, but also in many other UE countries, its financial, economic and social policy is causing great harm to the masses of the people.

The Maltese politicians who accept this EU policy share in the responsibility of the guilt for all the harm that is happening in our country and other EU countries.

Thursday 14 October 2010.

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

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