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<\/p>\nThe European Union is a power-hungry monster that grabs sovereignty and never gives it back according to Geert Wilders, the leader of the largest party in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n
Wilders, a nationalist, said the European Union should not be given any more decision-making power by its member states.<\/p>\n
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Rejecting the idea of European-wide taxation and ever-greater political union, Wilders said that the region needed less integration, not more.<\/p>\n
Speaking to CNBC<\/em> from the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy, the Dutch politician claimed that the European Union needed less centralized control and more power returned to national parliaments, particularly on issues like immigration.<\/p>\n \u201cEurope is a kind of monster<\/em>,\u201d Wilders told the U.S. media channel. \u201cThe European Union, if you give it more power they only want more and they won\u2019t give it back<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n Previously a die-hard Eurosceptic committed to the Netherlands leaving the European Union, Wilders\u2019 position on EU membership has softened the closer he has come to power \u2014 this is typical of many politicians across Europe such as Giorgia Meloni in Italy and Marine Le Pen in France.<\/p>\n Having long advocated for a referendum on Nexit \u2013 that is, an exit from the European Union for the Netherlands \u2014 the PVV leader dropped his pledge for a public vote on the matter in the spring in order to form a government with center-right, pro-EU parties.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s too late to end it<\/em>,\u201d Wilders told CNBC<\/em> in reference to the European project, \u201cbut please, let us take some of the powers back to the capitals, like for immigration<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAll of the politicians who are really out of sync with the electorate in Europe say, \u2018we want more integration,\u2019 but the people don\u2019t want that, they want their own [domestic] issues to be solved<\/em>,\u201d Wilders explained.<\/p>\n A key policy of the new Dutch government is to push for an opt-out from the controversial EU migration pact and wider asylum rules currently managed from Brussels.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s very important to try to toughen up our borders, but at the end of the day, we have to do it nationally<\/em>,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to be in charge of our own immigration rules, of our own asylum rules, of our own border controls. Any nation without the ability to decide who is welcome in its home is not really a nation<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Some countries have taken matters into their own hands on the migration issue, risking the wrath of Brussels.<\/p>\n Both Hungary and Slovakia have vowed to defy the European Union\u2019s demands for illegal immigrants to be distributed fairly across the bloc, with their respective governments telling the Commission in no uncertain terms that their countries will not participate in the scheme irrespective of the financial penalties.<\/p>\n Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s administration in Budapest has even held press conferences in front of a fleet of buses, warning Brussels it will transport illegal migrants from the country\u2019s southern border with Serbia to the de facto<\/em> EU capital if the European Union wants migration so desperately.<\/p>\n In another example of an EU member state acting unilaterally, the German left-wing coalition government announced plans to reintroduce border controls at each internal EU border, effectively suspending the borderless Schengen agreement.<\/p>\n It comes as no surprise that the move has been announced ahead of key state elections following the left-liberal coalition government\u2019s disastrous showing in the recent elections in Saxony and Thuringia where the anti-mass migration Alternative for Germany and the center-right CDU opposition enjoyed considerable electoral success.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n yogaesoteric <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The European Union is a power-hungry monster that grabs sovereignty and never gives it back according to Geert Wilders, the leader of the largest party in the Netherlands. 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\nSeptember 18, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n