Harald Vilimsky launched a scathing attack on the bloc following Mr Juncker’s much-anticipated State of the Union speech on Wednesday.
Jean-Claude Juncker laid out a vision for closer integration in spite of Brexit, and warned the UK they would “regret” the decision to leave.
The president said: “March 29 2019 – that will be the day when the United Kingdom will leave the EU.
“This will be a very sad and tragic moment in our history we will always regret this and I think that you will regret it as well soon if I might say.”
He outlined plans for universal membership of the Eurozone and Schengen, reaffirmed close cooperation on defence, fleshed out plans for an independent EU finance minister, and recommended merging the presidencies of European Union and European Council are merged.
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Harald Vilimsky launched a scathing attack on the bloc following Mr Juncker’s speech
But following his address, Mr Vilimsky, vice-chair of the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) party, voiced his dissatisfaction with Mr Juncker’s vision for Europe.
He said: “We have to say these apologies for European centralism, the European union is not Europe and Europe is not the European union.
“The European union is nothing more than an association, an association with rules, and you can change these rules.
“And to change the directions, well we don’t agree with it. And I don’t think you are allowed to make the decisions, its the people, its the citizens in the free voting system who are able to make decisions about the direction.”
He name-checked Mr Juncker, levelling his discontent directly at the bureaucrat.
Mr Vilimsky said: “And that’s the thing, what Mr Junker said today goes exactly against that.
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His speech was met with applause in the chamber
It doesn’t work now and you know it
“What Mr Junker wants de facto is to force the European union into a single state, and we know that the euro is not a success story.
“..extraordinary debts, we’ve seen the astonishing unemployment, astonishing negative social impact on peoples’ lives, we see this incredible social instability.
“The second thing Mr Junker wants is de facto to actually get rid of all the internal borders, we see 10,000, 100,000, millions of African and Arabs are going to be coming to our continent.”
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He shook the hands of several politicians as he left the room
It was at this point the camera panned back to the president, showing him getting up from his seat and leaving the room.
He shook the hands of several politicians as he left the room, seemingly ignoring the Austrian’s tirade against him.
Despite Mr Juncker walking out, Mr Vilimsky continued, saying: “Everything is going to be there including terrorists, and we know that the people who committed the terrorist attacks came through these routes into Europe and that is a threat to security for all citizens of our continent.
“They talk about having a defence union, but no we don’t want that. What we want is Austrians, we’re a neutral country in Austria, we do not want to participate in the defence union.
“The right road for Europe can only be the road where there is more democracy left to the people, more democracy left to the citizens where people can vote whether or not they want to have Schengen maintained or not, whether they want their borders or not. The vote has to be left to the citizen.
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Mr Juncker laid out a vision for closer integration in spite of Brexit
“The idea of having free movement at a moment of terrible unemployment, its the citizen who has to say whether or not they want that to be in place.
“That is what we need in Europe is democracy, pluralism. You have to give more sovereignty back to the states if Europe is ever going to function.
“It doesn’t work now and you know it yourself and it would be good if we changed it.”
His speech was met with applause in the chamber.