‘EU is killing Europe’ Brussels condemned as THREAT to economy and security

Marine Le Pen, leader of Front National, accused the EU of “killing Europe” as she advocated the establishment of a new union – a “Europe of sovereign nations”.

She said: “We are not xenophobes, we are opponents of the European Union.

“I think this is something we have in common, because the European Union is a disastrous organisation which is leading our continent to destruction through dilution by drowning it in migrants, by the negation of our respective countries, by the draining of our diversity.” 

Ally Gert Wilders, the leader of the Dutch anti-immigration Party for Freedom (PVV), added Brussels was an “existential threat” for nations.

He said he was convinced states would be better off without the bloc in terms of security and economy, as he again called for the end of mass immigration.

The populist figurehead also said Europe should follow in Donald Trump’s example by imposing travel bans to restrict the flow of migrants – or even build walls to make crossing borders impossible.

The comments come as the leaders attended a congress of the Movement for a Europe of Nations and Freedom (MENL), a European Parliament group established in 2015 which consists of far-right and Eurosceptic parties. 

Under the slogan ‘For a Europe of sovereign nations’, the meeting was attended by anti-EU politicians from Belgium, the UK and Poland along with The Austrian Freedom Party – who were praised for having just entered the country’s new coalition government.

Ms Le Pen described the victory as “very good news for Europe” before she urged politicians to help overthrow the EU.

She said: “The European Union is losing its breath. I hope that we will overthrow the European Union from within. 

“We must behave like conquerors … European nations must free themselves from the chains of the European Union.”

Delegates also heard from Tomio Okamura, the leader of the Czech Freedom and Direct Democracy party, who accused Brussels of trying to turn the continent into a “single totalitarian state.”

He said: “We are interested in a close cooperation between the sovereign European countries on the basis of mutual benefit and we reject the dictate of the current supranational structure that parasites on the unification of the European nations.”