Member States must break free from this economic prison of nations – Nigel Farage MEP

► European Parliament, Brussels – 16 June 2010 ► Speaker:Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD group. ► Debate: Council and Commission statements – Preparation for the European Council meeting (17 June 2010) – Commission statement – Preparations for the G20 summit (26-27 June) Transcript: President, thank you Since I was last here I’ve suffered some small ups and some rather dramatic downs – perhaps rather like the euro. The difference of course is that I’m going to get better. And looking at the faces in this parliament today and hearing the tone of voice, I suspect that the euro’s problems now may well be terminal. The folly of your policies has already blighted the lives of tens of millions of people in Europe and it now threatend to blight hundreds of millions of people. This whole project was based, of course, on a lie, as Mr Van Rompuy has admitted. It is perfectly clear that economically it doesn’t work. But interestingly, politically, it can’t work either. Nobody ever gave consent for the project. There is clearly no such thing as a European identity. And why should the Germans work hard to pay for the Greeks. It simply isn’t going to work. Mr Barroso, the whole thing is headed in the wrong direction. Greece, Spain, Portugal – they don’t fit inside this economic and monetary union. And what they actually need is help – help to break free from this economic prison of nations before we create something truly catastrophic. And yet what’s on the table …