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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

TELL YOUR PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE THAT YOU WANT MALTA TO REGAIN INDEPENDENCE AND FREEDOM

The vote of the House of Representatives in favor of the ratification of the Treaty of Lisbon of the European Union  is against the national interest and the Constitution of Malta. 

Because the Treaty strengthens the Union at the expense of the member countries by taking powers from them and gives them to the Union and because it strengthens the military alliance of the member countries by the setting up of a common defence policy, which goes against the Constitution that does not allow our country to take part in military alliances.

It is not in the national interest that decisions in new sectors that the Treaty gives to the Union, are not taken by the representatives chosen by the Maltese people, but are taken by the majority of the Union foreigners, and just the same bind the people notwithstanding that they are against them.

The Treaty that the House of Representatives approved, adds 68 instances in which the decisions are not taken with the consent of every member country of the Union, but with the vote of the majority. 

Therefore, Malta can find itself that in 68 instances it will be in a minority and just the same will have to submit to the decisions that it does not agree with. 

For this only, the Treaty of Lisbon is not in the national interest of the Maltese poeple.

That the European Union has becoma a military alliance is a fact, because as is stated in the Treaty, the Union is going to draft a common foreign policy that is going to lead to a common defence policy. 

The fact of the agreement between the member countries about a common defence policy means that the member countries agree on military measures that they have to take to defend themselves and the military help that they have to give to each other, when this is required. 

An agreement between countries on the giving of reciprocal military aid, is a military alliance, and a country who agrees about this, will be taking part in a military alliance.

Now the Constitution of Malta does not allow our country to take part in any military alliance. 

This means that our country cannot agree on a common defence policy, not only not participating in a military defence action when this occurs.

In the drafting of the European Union common defence policy, Malta is already taking part through an officer of the Armed Forces of Malta, who takes part in military meetings that are being held. 

Apart from this, Malta is also contributing for the expenses that the Union is making in the common defence sector.

Therefore, apart from the fact that Malta agreed to take part in the drafting of a common defence policy, our country is also taking part with the participation of the Army representative and with the contribution that Malta pays to the European Union. 

This breaches the Constitution of Malta.

The answer to the question on whether we can leave the European Union, is given to us by the Treaty of Lisbon which in Article 49A states that : 

Therefore Malta can leave the Union with the right granted to it by the Union Treaty itself. 

Not that without the Treaty, Malta could not have left the Union. 

It could have done so by unilaterally renouncing the membership agreement that it made in April 2003. 

What was required to do so was only that the majority of Maltese and Gozitans show the same will that they had shown to become its members in 2003.

Then it was all treachery of the Union propagandists, those who used to insist with the people, that once we have become members in the Union, we could not leave it. 

The Treaty of Lisbon has buried the treacherous propaganda by stating clearly, without any reservations and conditions, that every country has the right not to remain in the Union.

It can be said that the recognition of the right that a member country can leave the Union, is the only good thing in the Treaty of Lisbon. 

The Union felt that it had to recognize this right because the people of some of the member countries were not ready to pass on more powers from their governments to the Union and neither were they going to accept that the Union takes more decisions with the majority system. 

Which means that some member countries will be bound by decisions with which they did not agree and voted against them. 

A member country which finds itself with its back to the wall if it submits to the decisions of the majority of the Union that it cannot accept, has in Article 49A of the Treaty of Lisbon, the free choice of not implementing that decision, by leaving the Union.

This shows how mistaken are those European Union propagandists who boast that the Treaty of Lisbon has cemented more Malta’s membership agreement in the Union. 

The Treaty made it the other way round, because it has recongized that the bind that Malta had made when it became a Union member, is an unbindable bind that could be unbinded without any hindrance when the majority of the people show that they want to untie it.

Prior to the 2003 referendum, they told us that membership in the Union was a marriage for ever. 

Now the Treaty is recognizing that member countries have the right of divorce from membership in the Union.

It is not only according to the Treaty that our country can leave the Union, but Article 49A of the same Treaty provides that after the separation, the Union will continue to maintain good relations with Malta, by making a new agreement of cooperation between it and our country. 

More than this because the Treaty also provides that when a country leaves, it can again become a Union member.

There is nothing that a Maltese Government can do when we became members in the European Union that it cannot do if we leave the Union. 

Because every year we are paying the Union, and making expenses and lose income because of membership in the Union. 

More than what we are receiving from the Union. 

This emerges clearly from a “cost-benefit analysis” that ought to be made of our country’s membership in the Union. 

But the Union propagandists shy away from making it, because they know, that when everything is considered, we find that we are losing, not gaining, not as they have been deceiving the people by boasting how many millions are coming from the Union.

We should show the people that the economic expansion of our country does not mean that we are stronger economically. 

Because the expense that the government makes every year by loans, is added in the calculations of economic growth, notwithstanding that it does not strengthen, but weakens our country economically. 

If the Government contracts debt and spends one hundred million Ewros, this expands the economy with that amount, but it will not be strengthen the economy. 

On the other hand, if the Government does not contract debt and does not spend one hundred million Ewros, it will not be expanding the economy, but neither will it be weakening it.

The economic strength of a country is not measured on its expansion that occurs because the country increases the debt. 

The same can be said for commercial enterprises. 

If you have two enterprises, the first one sells one million Ewros in a year, but makes a loss of 50,000 Ewros, and the second one sells 500,000 Ewros in a year, but makes a profit of 50,000 Ewros, although the first enterprise is bigger, the second one is the strongest. 

The same principle applies to the ecomony of a country. 

We can see this by looking at the economy of the United States of America and the economy of China. 

That of the United States is until today the biggest economy, but it is China’s economy that is the strongest.

We should say all this so that we will not deceive ourselves when they tell us that we have to expand our economy to the average level of the European Union. 

Because if this occurs, it does not mean that we strengthen our economy, and very important, neither does it mean that our people will be better economically, once the expansion occurs because we increase the debt and by increasing direct or indirect taxes.

We want to strengthen and expand our country’s economy by increasing our export of products made in our country and sell more services given by Maltese and Gozitan persons to foreigners. 

These are the two factors that the policy of the European Union and the conditions of membership in the Union do not help us to better, as we have seen with the closure of many factories, the increase in expenses and in prices and the reduction in competitivity, apart from many more taxes, that we have seen because of membership in the Union.

WE WANT INDEPENDENCE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

Thursday 31 January 2008.

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