Sant confirms Labour's EU policy

The interests of workers and their families remained crucial for the Labour Party, MLP leader Alfred Sant said yesterday.

Addressing the annual general meeting of the party's women's Hamrun committee, he said Labour had, before the election, insisted that partnership with the EU was a better option for Malta but the people decided otherwise.

Now there were three options - to accept membership as presented by the Nationalist government; to promise to take Malta out of the EU; or to work to reduce the disadvantages there were in EU membership while ensuring that the advantages were equally enjoyed by all.

Dr Sant said it was neither in the country's nor in the workers' interests for the MLP, in opposition or in government, to take up the first two options. But the MLP would work to ease the disadvantages of membership for Malta.