{"id":18057,"date":"2016-12-21T19:52:49","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.yogaesoteric.net\/news-events-en\/articles-1602-en\/french-mp-almost-all-eu-states-could-follow-uk-leave-union\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T19:52:49","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:52:49","slug":"french-mp-almost-all-eu-states-could-follow-uk-leave-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogaesoteric.net\/en\/french-mp-almost-all-eu-states-could-follow-uk-leave-union\/","title":{"rendered":"French MP: \u00abAlmost all EU states could follow UK, leave union\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>  &#160;<br \/>\n  &#8220;Nearly every EU state could follow in the footsteps of the UK and vote to leave the bloc&#8221;, French Member of Parliament responsible for European affairs in President Francois Hollande&#8217;s party, Philip Cordery, has said. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/all_uploads\/uploads2\/2016-12\/10819\/10819_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"265\" \/><br \/>\nCordery was speaking at a Fabian Society fringe event at the UK Labour Party Annual Conference in Liverpool.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think what happened in the UK at the referendum could have happened [in] almost every other country in the European Union &#8211; except in the other countries no Prime Minister would have been as irresponsible as to ask for a referendum&#8221;, said Cordery, who is half English, as quoted by The Independent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we look today, euroscepticism is growing everywhere, populist movements are growing everywhere in Europe&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Cordery also said that there is a widespread perception in Europe that the bloc is moving in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve suffered from 10 years of tough austerity policies at the European level and people don&#8217;t see the EU as progress in terms of jobs, in terms of the economy, in terms of social progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Philip Cordery used to serve as the general secretary of the Party of European Socialists, a group whose aim is enhancing mutual cooperation within the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The British people voted to leave the EU during a referendum in June (2016), and the process of Brexit is very complex: as of now, neither a timetable nor the terms for it have been set up.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past 18 months, Europe has been engulfed by a migrant crisis, with a record 1.3 million asylum seekers registered in the EU in 2015, almost 30% of them from Syria, according to estimates compiled by Eurostat in March.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Brexit, many (mainly far-right) European leaders said they could hold their own referendums.<\/p>\n<p>In June, French politician Marine le Pen called for a &#8220;Frexit&#8221; vote, while a similar mood was apparent in The Netherlands: Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch right-wing, populist PVV party, currently topping opinion polls, openly expressed hopes a &#8220;Nexit&#8221; could follow a &#8220;Brexit&#8221;. In the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka said in February that &#8220;if Britain leaves the EU, we can expect debates about leaving the EU in a few years too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the end of June, a survey showed that 40% of Austrians want their own referendum on EU membership. In March, a poll in France showed that 53% of the country&#8217;s citizens wanted to hold a vote. In May, a poll conducted in Germany indicated that 29% of Germans were in favor of leaving the bloc.<\/p>\n<p><strong>yogaesoteric<br \/>\nDecember 21, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; &#8220;Nearly every EU state could follow in the footsteps of the UK and vote to leave the bloc&#8221;, French Member of Parliament responsible for European affairs in President Francois Hollande&#8217;s party, Philip Cordery, has said. 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