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The Danish Government has long been preparing to organize a referendum in September or October on whether Denmark introduced the Ewro instead of the Danish Kroner.

Suddenly the Danish Government abandoned its plans for a referendum after opinion polls started to indicate that if a referendum was held, the majority of the Danish people was going to vote NO.
 
This is another proof of how the EU apostles are afraid to play when they think that they are going to lose. 

They are only ready to accept a win. 

Therefore for the Danish Government not to lose like the Irish Government, it preferred not to play so that it will feign not to have lost.

Look what main EU politicians had to say about the Irish NO

•Nicolas Sarkozy, French President, on 20 June: 

“These Irish fools have long been taking money from Europe for many years and now they have thrown us into the dirt”.

 

•Valery Giscard d’Estaing, author of the EU Constitution, on 19 June: 

“The Lisbon Treaty did not die.

There is a great need that they vote again”.

 

•Wolfgang Schaeuble, German Minister for Internal Affairs, on 15 June: 

“It is true that we have to take the Irish referendum seriously.

But a few Irish millions should not decide for 495 million Europeans”.

 

•Josè Barroso, President of the European Commission, on 14 June: 

“The Treaty is not dead.

The Treaty is still alive and we have to see how we find a solution”.

•Lopez Garrido, Minister for Europe, Spanish, on 15 June: 

“The Treaty is going to come into effect, although a few months later”.

Their face is really tainted with soil (not to use another word which is more fitting to them)!  

It’s good to note…

Malta became a European Union member according to the agreement signed in Athens in April 2003. 

Malta can never change anything from the conditions of that agreement.

But the European Union can change its rules whenever it wants and Malta will have to submit to the new Union rules.

The Union changed its rules in the Constitutional Treaty, which ended up not coming into effect because the French and the Dutch did not accept it. 

The Union again changed its rules in the Lisbon Treaty, and the Irish voted against it. 

But if it were for the Union, Malta would have had to submit to the changed rules both of the Constitution as well as of the Lisbon Treaty.

The Union has a right to change the rules, but Malta has not got a right to change any of the membership conditions.

Is it capable of managing the country?

* The Government stated that it is not capable of managing correctly commercial enterprises as well as they are managed privately.

* The management of the country is much greater than the management of a commercial enterprise. 

* The management of a commercial enterprise is less difficult than the management of the country.
 
* If the Government is not capable of managing correctly a commercial enterprise, how is it capable of managing the country?

Seven years ago the European Union and Government experts said that the Malta Shipyard would be viable if it had no more then 1,400 productive workers.

Presently there is a boom in ship and super yachts repairs. 

But today the Government and the European Union are saying that for the Shipyard to be viable, it should have only between 400 and 700 workers.
 

They had assured us that with membership in the European Union, prices shall drop because levies on them will be removed.

After our country became a member in the Union, the prices continued to continuously increase. 

Not least many products increased by 18% VAT.
 
Today, the cost of living has never been so high. 

Even the wages have increased, but not as much as the prices have increased.

That is why we went backwards not forward.
 

Prior to the referendum they had 

* assured the workers that they are not going to lose their job, 

* to the hunters that they will continue to enjoy spring hunting, 

* to the trappers that they shall continue to enjoy their hobby, and 

* to the transport owners that their income shall not decrease.

In the four years that our country has been in the European Union, 

* thousands of workers have lost their job, 

* the hunters have had spring hunting removed, 

* the trappers know that trapping shall be destroyed and 

* the transport owners that their income shall decrease because the number of licences is going to increase.
 
This is the bitter fruit of the EU.

They also assured us that in the European Union our mind will be at rest. 

The headache for many parents is the invasion of thousands of illegal immigrants about which the Union is doing absolutely nothing to shield us against. 

On the contrary the Union is doing the opposite.

The Union is encouraging us to 

* welcome them, 

* give them work, and 

* allow their relatives to join them in our country.
 
Thus our country, which is the smallest in the European Union, but which has the greatest number of persons compared to its size, continues to forge ahead as the most populated country in the European Union.
 
This is causing a headache to many parents

A few weeks ago the banks increased the interest rates on loans that they make. 

Thus, whoever had contracted a loan to buy his home have to pay higher interests. 

The businessman who obtains a loan for his business, has a greater expense in the interests that he pays, which he will have to get by increasing the prices paid by his customers. 

And this continues to increase the cost of living to many people.

Why did the banks increase their interest rates? 

Not because the economic situation of the country requires it, but because they have been ordered to do so by the European Union Central Bank that decided to increase interest rates on loan, without caring what economic and social impact this is going to have on the citizens of our country.

This is a consequence of the entry of the Ewro currency in our country.

by Eddy Privitera

The Court of Justice of the European Union has lately decided that the Luxembourg law that protected foreign workers from being exploited by giving them wages lower than those of Luxembourg workers, is obstructing the right of companies to employ these foreigners, from making the greatest possible profit. 

The Court decided, therefore, that Luxembourg should repeal this law.

This decision was given in a case brought by the European Commission against Luxembourg, in which the Commission complained that the Government of that member country did not implement the EU Directive called “Posting of Workers Directive”. 

The Court considered this lack of implementation as an obstacle to the provision of services between EU countries.

This decision of the EU Court of Justice has reaffirmed that the right of business owners to do as they please, come before the protection of the Workers Unions. 

This decision led to one of the greatest EU apostles, John Monks, General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), to say that the decision of the EU Court is

“very problematic, ands is establishing that the economic freedoms take priority on the fundamental rights, on the respect towards national laws on work, and on collective agreements”

When you consider that this was said by a person who always worked in favour of the EU, even against the opinion of many of his fellow members in the European Trade Union Movement, should cause great concern both to trade unions, as well as to the many millions of workers in the EU (including Maltese workers and trade unions).

But, we are sorry to note, that NO ONE is informing the people, and more so the workers, about these decisions of the EU Court that are a threat to the rights of workers and their trade unions.
 
The impact of the decision of the EU Court is going to be enormous and spread further than the Luxembourg frontiers, and is going to increase the spectre of low wages for all workers.

Notwithstanding that in 2005 the European Parliament was supposed to have stopped the Directive that stated that the conditions of the country that is providing the service also apply when the service is given in another EU country, the EU Court just the same is slowly with its decisions introducing the principle or the “country of origin” of the Directive that the European Parliament did not approve. 

The decisions of the EU court bind all the EU member countries, and therefore what the European Parliamentarians did not allow to enter through the door, the EU Court is introducing through the window. 

It is hoped that the European Parliamentarians interest themselves in the dangerous decisions of the EU Court of Justice, if they really have the protection of the European workers close to their hearts, as well as for the European trade unions to show a greater sense of worry for the threats for their rights and for the future of collective agreements that they negotiate.

Thursday 31 July 2008

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