Brexit Fever Spreads: Italy, France, Netherlands & Denmark Seek Vote On Leaving EU

Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star movement has called for a referendum on whether to keep the Euro.

Buoyed by big gains in local elections, Luigi Di Maio, a vice president of the lower house of parliament, said: "We want a consultative referendum on the Euro.

“The Euro as it is today does not work. We either have alternative currencies or a 'Euro 2’.

"We entered the European Parliament to change many treaties.

“We are now waiting for the results of the Brexit referendum.

“The mere fact that a country like Great Britain is holding a referendum on whether to leave the EU signals the failure of the European Union.”

[...]National Front party leader Marine Le Pen promised France their own referendum as she declared her support for the Brexit campaign.

She said: “I would vote for Brexit, even if I think that France has a thousand more reasons to leave than the UK.

“Because we have the euro and Schengen. Whatever the result, it shows the EU is decaying, that there are cracks everywhere.”

[...]The leader of the far-right Danish People’s Party says Denmark should follow Britain’s lead and hold a referendum on its membership.

Party leader Kristian Thulesen Dahls said if the Danish parliament cannot agree on reforms with the EU a referendum could give Denmark a new opportunity.

He said: “If a majority in parliament for some reason will not be involved in this, why not ask the Danes in a referendum decide the case?”

If Denmark goes ahead, Irene Wennemo, state secretary to Sweden's minister for employment, said the anti-EU sentiment could spread through Scandinavia and raise the possibility of a vote in Sweden.

Eurosceptic feeling is said to be on the rise in the Netherlands, with two-thirds of voters rejecting a Ukraine-EU treaty on closer political and economic ties.

Anti-EU politician Geert Wilders declared the result the “beginning of the end” for the Dutch government and the EU.