Fico: EU threatened by “referendum adventures”

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico has called on other European Union leaders to stop holding referendums on domestic issues, adding that the votes are hazardous for the EU and the euro.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico has called on other European Union leaders to stop holding referendums on domestic issues, adding that the votes are hazardous for the EU and the euro.

โ€œI am asking EU leaders to stop with adventures like the British and Italian referendumsโ€ฆ on domestic issues which pose a threat to the EU,โ€ Fico said.


โ€œBritain is not a Eurozone country, Italy has a huge impact on the banking sector, the euro. What will we do ifโ€ฆ there is a referendum in Italy on the euro and Italian citizens decide they donโ€™t want the euro?โ€ the Slovak Prime Minister added.

Fico was referring to the UKโ€™s Brexit vote in June on leaving the EU, and last monthโ€™s rejection of constitutional reform in Italy.
In June, the nationalist Slovak Peopleโ€™s Party launched a petition to call a referendum on leaving the EU, but the motion was scrapped by the Slovak government.

The only successful referendum in the country was the 2003 vote on EU membership, with a 52 percent turnout and 92.5 percent in favor of joining the bloc.

In France, Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing National Front party and presidential candidate, has said that โ€˜Frexitโ€™ would definitely be on the table if she becomes the countryโ€™s leader.

โ€œFrexit will be a part of my policy. The people must have the opportunity to vote for the liberation from technocrats in Brussels,โ€ she said back in December.

There is also an election coming up in the Netherlands, with major players in the race speaking out in favor of what they call โ€˜Nexit.โ€™

โ€œThe EU leaves us no freedom to determine our own immigration and asylum laws. Nexit is necessary,โ€ Geert Wilders, the leader of the anti-immigrant Party for Freedom, said.

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