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

The Shipyard before membership

We were happy with the news that the Shipyard had won a contract for the building of two ‘single point mooring buoys’ for the Netherland company Bluewater Energy Services last week. 

At the same time we were filled with sorrow with the news that the building of the ten ships for the American Cala Corporation was lost because the Shipyard is not in a position to ensure that it will be paid for the work.

But many think that the reason why the contract was not concluded was that with the agreement which Malta had made with the EU, the Shipyard does not have the means to carry out great ship construction projects.

It is a great disgrace for the EU that it has reduced the Shipyard potential for work both for ship repair as well as for shipbuilding. 

Instead of helping us to strengthen the Shipyard, the EU forced us to reduce it and throw away the capacity of hundreds of tradesmen who were constrained to retire or were sent to do work with the Government that is not according to their trade, with parastatal companies and with authorities.

The worst for the Shipyard is still to come next year when, according to what the EU wants, no subsidies can continue to be given. 

Such was the agreement with the EU. 

But we would be true cowards if we submit to that infamous agreement that can cost the employment of hundreds of workers.

The Shipyard restructuring plan that the EU imposed on us to accept our membership is neither credible nor sustainable. 

It is not credible because if you examine it you will find figures and calculations that are not correct. 

It is not sustainable because with the reduction of productive workers that has been made, the Shipyard does not have the workforce necessary to carry out work that may render it enough profit not to make losses.

We will not only be betraying the Shipyard workers if we let it be closed after next year, but we will also be betraying our national interests if we do not rise to prevent the cradle of trades in our country the likes of which we do not have and without which the trades will continue to decrease and the tradesmen would disappear.

The SHIPYARD comes BEFORE membership in the Union

On 21 May this newspaper interviewed the Chief of the European Commission Representation in Malta Dr Joanna Drake. 

What we have noticed most in that interview was more what she did not say than what she did say.

After weeks that we have uncovered in Malta about the ceremony of the supposed signing of the Treaty of Rome 50 years ago, that they had only signed a bunch of blank papers and thus deceived all the people of Europe – and kept this deceit hidden for 50 whole years until a true BBC journalist, Alan Little, uncovered this secret on the eve of the anniversary of the Treaty of Rome which established the European Economic Community, today the European Union, Joanna Drake did not utter one word to contradict us. 

Naturally, today, Dr Drake, as a high official of the European Commission is not in a position to confirm and thus continue to play the fool with the six EU founders.

In the interview, Mrs Drake quoted from an EU survey that was held near the end of last year and which was published in January this year, that those who agree with our membership in the EU are increasing. 

While those who do not agree and wish to leave the EU are decreasing.

We quote another more recent survey. 

On 29 April 2007, Malta Today published a survey that was held a few days before that shows that those who agree with membership were reduced from 56.7% in May 2006 to 54.7% in April this year – against what had been stated by Joanna Drake. 

And those who do not agree with membership increased from 28.3% last year to 33% this year.

Another fib that Dr Drake tried to make us believe was that the EU does not interfere in our taxes, pensions and health services. 

The truth is totally the contrary.

As regards taxes, the EU forced us

* to introduce VAT,

* Eco-tax,

* taxes on all energy products,

* extend VAT on 400 products and services that previously we did not pay tax on, etc, etc.

As regards pensions, the EU is all the time pressing the Government to make changes in the granting of pensions, and the Government has already started to do so according to what the EU wants.

As regards the Health service, just like in the case of pensions, the EU is insisting that changes must be made that surely means the end of free health services for all. 

It is rather otherwise than that the EU does not interfere.

As regards education, the EU has forced us to introduce VAT on all objects connected with education, and Germany is proposing that the school Syllabus would be decided by the EU.

Another declaration by Mrs Drake clearly shows how the EU is playing the fool with the people of Europe all the time. 

Drake said that: “the countries have a lot of margin of competences … and governments can increase the standards … what the countries cannot do is for their level to be lower than that established by the UE .. but they can increase them”.

A easy example which can be understood by anyone: 

“You can decide how much you want to spend to buy a car, but you cannot spend less than Lm10,000. If you want to you can also spend more.”

This is what Joanna Drake said. 

Is it not laughable!

Because of lack of space, in her last comment, Joanna Drake said that the Maltese think that “the EU interferes in everything”. 

We answer: And how. 

It is enough to mention three simple examples. 

* The EU interfered on the tax on babies’ nappies. 

* Interferes also on how long a banana can be, how thick and how curved – as if how good a banana is depends on its length, thickness and straightness (or curviture)! 

* And it will shortly interfere – as from 2009 – with whoever leases or buys property by requiring an EU certificate.

Another form of agreement with the EU certainly exists?

Who does not remember how much propaganda and correspondents in the Times newspaper had, prior to the Referendum and General Election ridiculed those who like us insisted that the better choice was to be partners with the EU (Partnership) not to become full members. 

They used to insist in the Times that the “partnership” policy did not exist and therefore those of us who had insisted on it, were promising the people something that did not exist.

It appears that those who wrote in the Times easily forget what they used to say prior to the referendum, to confound all those who like us insisted that it is not in our country’s interests to become an EU member. 

So let’s see how in the Times itself it is being uncovered how its readers were deceived when they used to read that the “partnership” policy did not exist as a form of agreement between the EU and other countries who would not be EU members.

The latest proof when the The Times belied what was said in it prior to the Referendum, we have read in a report that appeared in it on 19 May 2007 about the meetings that the German Chancellor Angela Merkel had with the Russian President Vladimir Putin on 18 May. 

In the report written by Christian Lowe it was written that:

“As expected, the summit failed to unlock the launch of talks on EU-Russia partnership agreement”.

This example is only one of endless other examples about how the writings that used to appear in the The Times was an accomplice with the Nationalist Government so that the Maltese and Gozitan people were deceived by barefaced lies so that Malta would become an EU member.

We also remind how Commissioner Gunther Verheugen had told us that there is no other form of agreement with the EU if not full membership. 

Never think that some day The Times writers and Verheugen are going to apologize to the Maltese people about how they had invented excuses and lies that a form of other agreement like “partnership” did not exist. 

This is why we insist that when they had said so, they were lying.

Then we see some Editorial in The Times that those who wanted another form of agreement with the EU, such as “partnership” are still not credible! 

Is that which appeared in The Times credible, when it is belied in The Times itself?

Last Monday 28 May, Mr Lino Farrugia, General Secretary of the Hunters, Trappers and Conservationists Federation, was interviewed by John Bundy in his programme “Bonġu Malta” (Good Morning Malta) on TVM.

We admired the way how he answered John Bundy’s questions. 

Farrugia’s argument was that the hunters and trappers are being treated as second-class citizens by the EU by the fact that in other EU countries, governments are applying derogations and allowing hunting in Spring.

According to Farrugia, the EU appears as if it wants to give an example with Malta because it is small.

It was very interesting – and which should strengthen the hearts of those who believe like us – when Lino Farrugia said that if the Maltese political parties are not ready to stand up to the Union and tell it that Maltese and Gozitan hunters and trappers have the right to be treated like other hunters and trappers in other EU countries, then one can say that it is better to leave the EU.

We, CNI, have been saying this for a long time. 

And we are certain that what had been said by the Secretary of the FKNK, will be stated by all those sectors of the people who in one way or another are being hard-hit by our country’s membership in the EU. 

It is stated by

* the Shipyard workers,

* Air Malta workers,

* factory workers whose factories had closed down and other who are reducing their workforce,

* youths who were crucified with the scandalous increase in property by membership,

* old and sick people with the high medicine prices,

* herdsmen and

* chicken producers and

* pig producers,

* farmers who were also deceived by the supposed safeguard clause, and

* many many other sectors.

It appears that what they used to tell us CNI, that we are like a voice in the desert and that we are wasting time combating membership in the EU – or better still the new EU colonialism – is being heard at last. 

What remains is that in future we will go into action to show the thousands of Maltese and Gozitan people that the interests of the Maltese people and those of our country should come first and foremost.

We remind the Minister for Finance that Malta gives more than Lm22 million every year to the EU paid from taxes collected from the Maltese people. 

This means that the Maltese people are giving the EU more than LM60,000 every day. 

The readers would do well to follow the CNI Smash TV programme this evening during which the same Lino Psaila will be interviewed.

Thursday 31 May 2007.

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