Slovakia’s PM calls on EU leaders to stop referendum ‘adventures’ — RT News
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has known as on different EU leaders to cease holding referendums on home points, including that the votes are hazardous for the EU and the euro.
“I’m asking EU leaders to cease with adventures just like the British and Italian referendums… on home points which pose a menace to the EU,” Fico stated on Monday.
“Britain shouldn’t be a Eurozone nation, Italy has a big impact on the banking sector, the euro. What will we do if… there’s a referendum in Italy on the euro and Italian residents resolve they don’t need the euro?” the Slovak Prime Minister added.
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Fico was referring to the UK’s Brexit vote in June on leaving the EU, and final month’s rejection of constitutional reform in Italy.
In June, the nationalist Slovak People’s Party launched a petition to name a referendum on leaving the EU, however the movement was scrapped by the Slovak authorities.
The solely profitable referendum within the nation was the 2003 vote on EU membership, with a 52 % turnout and 92.5 % in favor of becoming a member of the bloc.
Matthew Goodwin, affiliate professor on the University of Nottingham, believes that Brexit was just the start.
“The responses that the folks have given had been uncomfortable for the elites within the EU. As a consequence, they’re now calling for these referendums to be stopped,” he informed RT.
“The EU in itself is affected by the shortage of legitimacy on the grassroots amongst unusual voters. The EU is now feeling this problem in a really actual sense. Of course, now we have these large elections arising the place we’ll seemingly see these requires referendums improve,” he added.
In France, Marine Le Pen, the chief of the right-wing National Front social gathering and presidential candidate, has stated that ‘Frexit’ would undoubtedly be on the desk if she turns into the nation’s chief.
“Frexit might be part of my coverage. The folks should have the chance to vote for the liberation from technocrats in Brussels,” she stated again in December.
There can also be an election arising within the Netherlands, with main gamers within the race talking out in favor of what they name ‘Nexit.’
“The EU leaves us no freedom to find out our personal immigration and asylum legal guidelines. Nexit is critical,” Geert Wilders, the chief of the anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, stated.
