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Was, is and shall remain in favour of Maltese workers

and against Malta's membership of the European Union

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

For many Maltese people the celebrations of the 50 years of the European Union were clouded by the scandalous issue of hunting and trapping during spring in our country.

It is a scandalous issue from every aspect.

Because if what the European Union is saying is true, the Maltese Government lied and deceived the people before the referendum about membership in the Union.

And if what the Maltese Government is saying is true, the European Union is going against what it had agreed with the Government with the Union membership agreement.

The people are flabbergasted with the European Union threats to our country that if we do not do as the Union orders, it will impose hefty fines on us.

These fines are paid from taxes that the Maltese people pay.

Now, therefore, the people, apart from having to suffer the bad consequences of membership in the Union with the loss of thousands of jobs and the reduction of working conditions for many workers, they will have to pay hefty fines to the Union.

Prior to the 2003 referendum they assured the people that with membership in the Union they will have a new Spring.

In the three years since we have become members in the Union, we have had a terrible winter, and worse still we shall have in the coming years when the derogations that we have been given from the Union rules come to an end.

It is not only the hunters and trappers that are not having a nice Spring, but the vast majority of the people, except those few who are doing well on Union funds.

If the Maltese people had to be asked today if they agree with membership in the European Union, the result will be contrary to that in the referendum held three years ago, because today the majority says no.

And this phenomenon emerged in only three years notwithstanding that the leaders of all the political parties are in favour of membership, and say that our country cannot turn the clock back prior to when we became members in the Union.

The majority has turned against membership in the European Union not because propaganda in favour of the Union has been reduced.

Indeed propaganda has increased and the expenses in propaganda activities have been increased, not reduced, while propaganda against the European Union has been much reduced from what it was prior to the referendum.

Today, it is not only in our country that public opinion is against the European Union.

During the same days that the Union commemorated its birth 50 years ago, the leaders of the Union countries had before them the results of a public opinion poll in the Union countries, which is against the granting of more powers to the Union.

It is certain that the Union leaders were shocked when, while they were boasting about the euro, found from the same opinion poll that the majority of the people in the countries that had adopted the euro are in favour of reintroducing their national currencies instead of the euro, and that in the 11 countries that have not yet adopted the euro, the majority do not want the euro.

The leaders of the European Union countries gathered in Berlin last week had to admit that it is not possible to shove the EU Constitution that the leaders signed in Rome in October 2004 down the throat of the people of a number of Union countries.

That is why the Constitution is not even mentioned in the Berlin Declaration, and it is only stated that they have the aim of renewing the common foundations of the EU before the European Parliament elections in 2009 (“we are united in our aim of placing the European Union on a renewed common basis before the European Parliament elections in 2009”).

It did not mention the Constitution that the French and Dutch people had denied and which the Maltese Parliament approved unanimously, because it is known that there are a number of governments that do not agree with it today, although they had signed it in 2004.

These governments know that the public opinion in their countries is against the Constitution that the Union had drafted three years ago.

At that time the governments of all the Union countries were sure that the people were enthusiastic for the Union Constitution.

Today a number of governments know that the people are against the Union and do not want it to be given greater powers, and have therefore turned against the European Union Constitution.

In our country the majority would vote against the Union Constitution if they were given the opportunity of a referendum about whether they agree or not with the Constitution as drafted, and this notwithstanding that the Maltese Parliament had voted in its favour two years ago.

Every time that we hear how many people are going to be employed with the Smart City project, it comes to our mind that they never say how many jobs were lost and how many are going to be lost with membership of our country in the European Union.

Today Smart City has become the ‘joker’ of Minister Austin Gatt.

He is playing this card in every argument to try to convince how we have a ‘smash’ government and how it was to our advantage that we became members in the EU.

The principal argument that Gatt mentions is the continuous creation of thousands of jobs that Smart City is supposed to create.

He started with 5,600.

He increased them to 7,60, and now he mentioned the figure of 10,600 up to 2018 – as much as there used to be workers in the Dockyard at its apex!

We note that he is increasing these figures either before or after the Local Councils elections.

Since last year 5,600 jobs did not impress anyone and the PN lost that Councils election, this year, prior to the 10 March election, he increased the figure to 7,600!

For the second time the trick did not work.

And therefore he again increased the figure to 10,600 with the hope that the PN will win the general election.

It will not be a surprise if he again increases the figure to 20,000 jobs on the eve of the general election!

 
Minister Gatt – who always says that Tecom Investments came to Malta because our country is in the EU – we remind him that while he said that he is ready to bet that all the textile factories will close down within ten years (and never mentions how many jobs will be lost), he never said that he is willing to bet about the thousands of jobs that are going to be created in Smart City!

The good intentions of the European Union do not justify the bad means used to carry out those intentions.

During the 50^th anniversary celebrations to commemorate the signing of the Rome Treaty for setting up the European Economic Community that later developed into the European Union, many were the repetitions of praise for the E.U.’s aims.

However, they failed to analyse the methods used by the E.U. and the policy it adopted, matters which are antagonizing quite a large number of people towards it, who tend to damn instead of blessing it.

The harshest E.U. critics are those close to it, those who have visited its institutions and were scandalized and disappointed by what they saw with their own eyes and with what they experienced. 

These individuals neither look after their personal interests before those of their country, nor reckon their gains without taking into consideration the suffering of the majority.

E.U. politicians are neither objective nor correct if in the E.U. they see gainful opportunities for themselves, opportunities for which they are ready to sacrifice the national interests of their people.

Similarly, media operators who are regularly pampered by the E.U. when it closes its eyes as far as expenses are concerned do not deserve any credit.

These reporters lavish continuous favourable propaganda about it in return for such attitude on the part of the Union.

During the E.U.’s 50^th anniversary celebrations, not one of the leaders had the wisdom to insist that a careful examination be carried out about the E.U. policy in the economic and social aspects, a policy which is rendering gross social injustices to millions in many EU member states where due to the lack of work for millions of people, the decrease in social benefits and the enormous market profits in every day necessities social disparity is increasing, not diminishing.

Whoever visits the E.U. offices and buildings in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxemburg and comes in contact with the heads, officials and workers therein, as well as its members of Parliament and their assistants, experiences the luxury and waste enjoyed by these people. 

The visitor should keep in mind that his country’s people are being sacrificed by heavy taxation to make it possible for this waste and enjoyment of the few.

The solemn feast organized recently by the E.U. in Berlin does not indicate a change for the better in the E.U

The declaration issued by the E.U., known as the Berlin Declaration, is merely warmed up minestrone, because there is nothing new in it, nothing that has not been repeated many times before about the past and future of the Union.

Above all the Union has failed to declare what steps it will take to safeguard the workers from the impact of globalization.

Neither has it declared that it will no longer interfere in the methods member states use to govern their countries

According to a report that appeared in the Sunday Express of last February 5, the German Government, which presently has the Presidency of the European Council, wants one teaching syllabus in all schools in all the European Union member states

The German Education Minister Annette Schavan said that “National Curricula should not describe what is to be taught but objectives and outcomes intended. These should be based on an EU framework”.

We ask:

What is the Malta Union of Teachers (MUT) going to say?

Do they agree that even where the education of our children, the Maltese authorities should be denied the right to decide what subjects should be taught in our schools?

And that this so important right passes into the hands of bureaucratic foreigners who certainly are not going to consider the particular circumstances that our country has?

Now one of the EU Commandments is SUBSIDIARITY.

That is that decisions that affect the citizens should be taken at the level nearest to the citizen, if this will have a better result.

Now it is certain that in education, the decisions should be taken at the national level, if not even, in particular cases, it would be better that they are taken at regional level.

But certainly not at a level so far away, in Brussels!

This is another proof that an ocean stands between words and facts.

Thursday, 29 March 2007.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

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