Posted on 06/24/2016 6:43:16 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
POLITICIANS across Europe have called for their own referendums in the wake of Britain's historic decision to quit the EU.
Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star movement has now officially called for a referendum on whether to keep the Euro.
Buoyed by big gains in local elections, Luigi Di Maio, a vice president of the lower house of parliament, said: "We want a consultative referendum on the Euro.
“The Euro as it is today does not work. We either have alternative currencies or a 'Euro 2’.
The 5-Star movement has called for two different currencies in Europe, one for the rich northern countries another for southern nations.
While any such referendums on the EU or the Euro would be merely test public opinion because Italian law does not allow referendums to change international treaties, a victory would send a clear signal to the government, especially in the wake of Brexit.
Brexit is a huge blow to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party and was hailed by supporters of 5-Star as a possible springboard to Italian independence.
In France, National Front party leader Marine Le Pen promised voters their own referendum as she declared her support for Brexit.
She said: “I would have voted for Brexit. France has a thousand more reasons to leave than the UK because we have the euro and Schengen.
"This result shows the EU is decaying, there are cracks everywhere.”
Experts across the continent warned today that Brexit would lead to the entire break-up of Europe.
The leader of the far-right Danish People’s Party says Denmark should now follow Britain’s lead and hold a referendum on its membership.
Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahls said if the Danish parliament cannot agree on reforms with the EU a referendum could give Denmark a new opportunity.
He said: “If a majority in parliament for some reason will not be involved in this, why not ask the Danes in a referendum decide the case?”
If Denmark goes ahead, Irene Wennemo, state secretary to SWEDEN'S minister for employment, said the anti-EU sentiment could spread through Scandinavia and raise the possibility of a vote in Sweden.
Eurosceptic feeling is also surging in the Netherlands, with two-thirds of voters rejecting a Ukraine-EU treaty on closer political and economic ties.
Anti-EU politician Geert Wilders declared the result the “beginning of the end” for the Dutch government and the EU.
I’m sorry you were saying something...
great i still have some francs lying around
Even if dominated by them, it wasn’t just socialist gasbags, unless Churchill fits in that category too. He was for a United States of Europe.
[ The EU was a stupid idea. ]
Well, originally it was a decent idea, but with crap poor implementation and an ever increasing thirst for growing it’s own power because it grew more and more corrupt......
so yeah, I guess you are right, it was a bad idea...
A sad day for the New Worlders - may it continue - with the speed of a freight train...
ahahahahahaha
Thanks for the laugh - just the thing to close out the day...
ahahahahahaha
Thanks for the laugh - just the thing to close out the day...
I think the average European is realizing that rather than benefiting Europe (or Europeans) the EU had turned into a cash register for non-Europeans living closer to the equator. NAFTA did the same thing to us...
well Churchill did have some bad ideas......
Greece is not going anywhere, the gravy train is still making German timing stops every hour with deliverys of Quantative Easing Surplus’. Even if the Greeks sell every island in the Med, it would take years.
Out of planet Earth.
Great
did the common people in these ever get to vote on whether to join the EU in the first place ???
or was this something their “betters” decided for them ???
kind of like Obama and his decisions on our “behalf”
LOL!
EuSSR Is a form of soft totalitarianism.
Nothing sacrosanct about it. Soviet Union was also based on treaty until denounced in in December 1991 by its core members.
EuSSR can legally cease to exist by tearing up treaties that created it.
I didn’t sell a thing, but a lot of frightened rabbits probably sold off a lot, but that is another’s gain.
Hmm. I didn’t even see the writing. Can’t imagine why.
Dang! That’s funny!
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