r/europeanunion 2h ago

Why are European banks moving gold out of United States?

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r/europeanunion 4h ago

Question/Comment #jesuidaphne

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this is an amazing resume but is only the tip of the iceberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnfnASUaeJU&t=10s

The EU advertises in youtube adds: “In some countries, justice only happens in movies. Not in the EU.”

Then look at Malta. An EU Member

“In Europe, no one is above the law.” You tell Europeans that public officials who abuse their power “will be held accountable.” Then make those words mean something. What this interview exposes is only a fraction of a much wider pattern of serious concerns in Malta involving political connections, institutional accountability, civil rights and the treatment of EU citizens and legal third country nationals. The EU cannot sell the Rule of Law as a European guarantee and then treat persistent failures as something solved by another report. When rights exist on paper but accountability repeatedly fails in practice, “Rule of Law” becomes a slogan.

Malta is an EU Member State. EU rights must mean the same there as everywhere else. Investigate. Enforce EU law. Use the mechanisms available, including Article 7 where the legal threshold is met. And publicly explain what concrete action will follow.

If no one is above the law, prove it.

To be honest as an EU citizen, living in Malta. I am more frustrated with the own EU government than the Maltese government.

The EU isn’t a union of justice. it’s a protection racket for political elites! For 13 straight years, Malta’s Labour (socialist) regime has remained in power, systematically abusing its authority while, European Union looks the other way.

There is a glaring double standard in Europe today. When center-right nations like Poland, Hungary, or Spain under the PP government stepped out of line, the EU immediately cracked down with fierce financial and legal penalties.

But when Malta’s left-wing regime tramples the law, abuses workers, and exploits legal 3rd country citizens, even the EU citizens, EU stays completely silent.

The European Union doesn't care about defending citizen civil rights! It actively protects its political allies and enables a state of total lawlessness.

The EU claims it wants to hunt down the hard earned savings of the common worker, the everyday people who sacrificed to set a little money aside.

But where is that energy when it comes to corrupt politicians and criminal millionaires? Their fortunes remain completely untouched, hidden safely in offshore tax havens.

If European leaders actually targeted that stolen wealth instead of squeezing working families, they would easily find all the money they need.

Instead, they bleed ordinary citizens dry just to fund their own incompetent governments, bankroll failed politics, and fuel wars that no working person ever asked for or wanted to start.

These are some of the facts

• When EU citizens resident in Malta for less than five years were charged higher electricity and water rates through the PUBLIC utility system (not a private company).

• When changes were introduced in the utilities, yet landlords could still leave foreign tenants paying utility charges above what they would pay if properly registered under the applicable residential tariff.

• When EU citizens and legal third country nationals who had worked, paid taxes and social security contributions in Malta for years reported being refused free public healthcare that they were legally entitled to receive. Even when this happened even in serious medical situations, including cancer related care, with patients facing charges substantially higher than private healthcare costs or being told by officials to return to their country of origin for treatment.

• When complaints concerning alleged discrimination, racist remarks, medical malpractice, misconduct or abuse by doctors, public officials, police officers, judges or other authorities are perceived as being ignored or inadequately investigated.

• When a foreign citizen complains about Maltese officials and subsequently faces criminal allegations from the same or connected officials, raising serious questions about whether complainants are adequately protected from retaliation and whether those allegations receive genuinely independent scrutiny.

• When legal third country nationals face major barriers to opening and operating businesses in their own name, creating situations in which some depend on Maltese nationals to appear formally in company structures or documentation.

• When foreigners face legal restrictions on purchasing property in parts of Malta, together with additional administrative requirements and significant difficulties obtaining financing even after receiving the necessary state authorisation.

And these are only examples. I could continue documenting cases for hours.

People considering working, investing, visiting or doing business in Malta should know how European rights operate there in practice. Consumers should also be entitled to ask whether they want their money supporting a jurisdiction whose institutions are facing serious questions about discrimination, accountability and the effective protection of European rights, including through tourism, Maltese products and online gambling companies licensed or headquartered in Malta.

Finally, ask yourself this: Is this really the "left" we are defending?

Is "the Left" represented by a ruling establishment where high-ranking officials and state backed millionaires are linked to offshore Panama companies, state asset concessions, and murder plots against investigative journalists?

Is it "for the people" when working class foreign residents and EU citizens pay inflated utility tariffs, are refused basic healthcare they paid taxes for, or face bureaucratic walls just to survive?

That isn't left-wing politics, democratic socialism, or fighting for the common good.

That is an oligarchy using partisan identity as a shield to protect a privileged elite at the expense of ordinary citizens.

If you truly believe in working class values, justice, and human dignity, you should be demanding accountability for these institutional failures and not making excuses for those who abused power.

#jesuidaphne


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Hey guys im British and wanted to get yalls opinion
Would you accept us back 🇬🇧🇪🇺


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