The European Union is a disaster and a danger for Europe, the leaders of right-wing European parties said when attending a congress of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom held in Prague on Saturday.
Sputnik: We’ve heard occasional comments by some party leaders in Europe voicing their support for leaving the EU. Do you think more countries will follow Britain and leave the bloc?
Rodney Atkinson: I think it’s a real prospect and the irony is that [even though] countries that have suffered massive social destruction, health care collapse, mass unemployment and enormous debt burdens, have a political motivation to leave the EU, they are in a weak position because leaving the Eurozone would be a dangerous thing to do. Eastern European countries like Hungary, Poland, [the former Czechoslovakia] and others have done well, but they are politically the most opposed to EU policies, not least because of the [migration issue]. Poland might be a candidate to leave, Hungary, the Czech Republic, perhaps Germany might leave too.
Sputnik: Do you think support for the EU is going to slip away and more [Euro-skeptic] parties are going to be elected?
Rodney Atkinson: It is very difficult to predict which particular parties are going to be the vehicle for change, but change is inevitable. Nation states and democracies relying upon them are going to rise again and centralized super-states like the EU are going to decline in their influence. The question is who is going to do it. In Austria, for instance, we’ve seen the [rise of] right-wing parties, and in Britain it’s not the parties that wanted to change, but the people just voted in a referendum and made them change.
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