Numerous complaints about the European Union raised by the Leave campaign resonated with voters across the continent.
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Political leaders in other countries, like Spain and Poland, haven’t outright called for a referendum of their own but have used the vote as a warning that the EU must reform or risk additional countries jumping ship from the European project aimed at preventing World War III. “The Europhile elite has been defeated”, crowed Geert Wilders of the Netherlands’ anti-immigrant Party for Freedom.
“We want be in charge of our own country, our own money, our own borders, and our own immigration policy”.
“It’s good news for Le Pen because the European issue was one of the key drags on FN voting”, Dabi said.
“I will accept the instructions of the British people and get to work to deliver them”, he says. On Saturday Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg’s foreign minister and an outspoken critic of the United Kingdom leaving, will head to Berlin to discuss the referendum’s outcome with Germany, France, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
Germany is anxious that France, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Hungary could also seek to leave the European Union after Britain’s vote to quit the bloc, German newspaper Die Welt said on Friday, citing a finance ministry strategy paper.
The EU debate drew voices from across the spectrum of actors, singers, politicians, models and social media influencers.
Analysts say European Union politicians will fear a domino effect from Brexit that could threaten the whole organisation. “Maybe there will not be disintegration but a loss of relevance”.
EU officials are considering how to rally the remaining member countries and inject enthusiasm for the union. Changes won’t come until there’s a formal withdrawal agreement between Britain and the EU.
Germany’s current government expressed concern Friday over the vote, with Chancellor Angela Merkel saying she had “great regret” over Brexit and Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier calling it “sobering”.
“What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger”, Tusk told reporters in a statement.
But he and Prime Minster Manuel Valls also saw a need for ensuring the EU’s member states and their people remained in control to tackle growing disillusionment over Europe among voters. “This British government has forfeited any mandate to represent the economic or political interests of people in Northern Ireland”, Sinn Fein said.
“Whatever the result, it shows the European Union is decaying, that there are cracks everywhere”, Le Pen said, describing Brussels as “totalitarian” and requesting a return to a “Europe of the nations”, the paper reported.
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In Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, the prime minister, said: “The impact on Australia immediately, directly, from a legal point of view, will be very limited. A bad day for Europe”. These are uncertain times.
