European Parliament, Brussels, 08 May 2013
So, there’s nothing to worry about. Mr Barroso told us last week, ‘I think I can say that the existential threat against the euro has essentially been overcome – nothing to see here, move along, crisis over.’
Well, Mr Draghi and Angela Merkel may well have committed the German taxpayer to unlimited sums of money in order to prop up the eurozone. And certainly ahead of the German elections there perhaps isn’t much else she could have done. And I do accept that the pressure from the markets, Mr Barroso, has eased for now.
And from your perspective and everybody’s perspective, I suppose, the champagne is still flowing, the chauffeur-driven cars are shiny, the salaries and of course the expenses are attractive, so everything is rosy in the EU garden.
But I don’t think we should be kidding anybody, Mr Barroso, because the fundamentals haven’t changed. In fact things deteriorated in 2012 substantially.
Unemployment has soared, particularly in the Mediterranean countries, with youth unemployment now up to 58% in two of those countries.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage talks about the British state kidnapping children from UKIP members and other efforts to attack the anti-establishment political party.
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Disillusionment with the European project has brought more support in Britain for the UK Independence Party, which believes only pulling out of the EU will do. What’s more, recent polls show over half of Britons agree. RT talks to party leader and Euro MP Nigel Farage.
European Parliament, Strasbourg, 20 November 2012. Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, Leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Co-President of the ‘Europe of Freedom and Democracy’ (EFD) Group in the European Parliament - http://nigelfaragemep.co.uk
Debate: Preparations for the European Council meeting (22-23 November 2012) with particular reference to the Multiannual Financial Framework Council and Commission statements [2012/2781(RSP)]
Nigel Farage is a UK politician with a strong US following. He has seen his own party, UKIP, grow from a fringe faction to a viable mainstream alternative. By turning his European Parliamentary position into a bully pulpit for a growing movement of euro-skeptics, he has managed to ride an alternative political wave sweeping across the Atlantic. And many of his speeches before the EU have gone viral on the internet, particularly on the financial blogosphere in the United States, making the man and his United Kingdom Independence Party a force to be reckoned with.
Nigel Farage joins us in studio to discuss all this, as well as what happens behind the scenes of Europe’s Parliament and give us a sneak peak at his relationship with other MEPs behind the new iron curtain!
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