NIGEL FARAGE has lambasted the “dying” European bloc for “not learning lessons” following the Brexit vote and “wanting to centralise” power.
Speaking on Fox News, the former Ukip leader blasted Eurocrats for not responding to the EU referendum despite its “significance”.
Responding to whether he thought there was a possibility the EU could ever become “unified” again, he said: “They can’t, the European Union is dying before your very eyes.
“Look, the most significant event that’s taken place in the 60 odd years this union’s been around is the Brexit vote that took place in June of this year.
“Now the lesson they could have learned from that was that actually, nation states want to have a bit more of a say over their own lives. So they could have concluded, let’s hand back powers.
“[But] nope, they’re doing the opposite. They want to pull more and more powers to the centre. I think the Eurozone is what’s really going to play out in this referendum on Sunday in Italy, I think the migrant crisis has enraged much of Europe – no this thing [the EU] does not work.”
Mr Farage turned his attention to Italy’s referendum on constitutional reform, warning it could lead up to the break-up of the European project.
He said: “What will happen if Prime Minister [Matteo] Renzi loses on Sunday? Which I believe he will – this political revolution of 2016 is not over yet – if he loses, his position as Prime Minister is pretty tenuous.
“He’ll probably have to form an emergency administration and the four big Italian banks are basically on the edge of bankruptcy – it’s a matter of weeks or months before something like 40 to €50billion is going to be needed to prop up those banks and I think that an Italian general election may come next year rather than the scheduled year after.
“And you know what, if the Italian people were asked today, to vote whether to stay in the Euro or leave, I believe they would vote to leave.”
The comments come after Mr Renzi made a desperate plea to voters not to punish him in tomorrow's referendum for the sake of their children.
He told a rally in his home city of Florence: "[This Sunday] could change the lives of our children."
If the reform goes through, it will reduce the power of the senate – the equivalent of the House of Lords in the UK – and take back legal power from 20 regional governments.
Those in favour of the change say it will make passing laws easier but those against it say it will centralise power too much.
Speaking on Fox News, the former Ukip leader blasted Eurocrats for not responding to the EU referendum despite its “significance”.
Responding to whether he thought there was a possibility the EU could ever become “unified” again, he said: “They can’t, the European Union is dying before your very eyes.
“Look, the most significant event that’s taken place in the 60 odd years this union’s been around is the Brexit vote that took place in June of this year.
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| Nigel Farage has slammed the EU for wanting to centralise power |
“Now the lesson they could have learned from that was that actually, nation states want to have a bit more of a say over their own lives. So they could have concluded, let’s hand back powers.
“[But] nope, they’re doing the opposite. They want to pull more and more powers to the centre. I think the Eurozone is what’s really going to play out in this referendum on Sunday in Italy, I think the migrant crisis has enraged much of Europe – no this thing [the EU] does not work.”
Mr Farage turned his attention to Italy’s referendum on constitutional reform, warning it could lead up to the break-up of the European project.
He said: “What will happen if Prime Minister [Matteo] Renzi loses on Sunday? Which I believe he will – this political revolution of 2016 is not over yet – if he loses, his position as Prime Minister is pretty tenuous.
“He’ll probably have to form an emergency administration and the four big Italian banks are basically on the edge of bankruptcy – it’s a matter of weeks or months before something like 40 to €50billion is going to be needed to prop up those banks and I think that an Italian general election may come next year rather than the scheduled year after.
“And you know what, if the Italian people were asked today, to vote whether to stay in the Euro or leave, I believe they would vote to leave.”
The comments come after Mr Renzi made a desperate plea to voters not to punish him in tomorrow's referendum for the sake of their children.
He told a rally in his home city of Florence: "[This Sunday] could change the lives of our children."
If the reform goes through, it will reduce the power of the senate – the equivalent of the House of Lords in the UK – and take back legal power from 20 regional governments.
Those in favour of the change say it will make passing laws easier but those against it say it will centralise power too much.
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