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Nigel Farage said that “Brexit was the first brick knocked out of the wall” of the European institutions and that Italy could be the next one causing trouble for Brussels. Mr Farage told Fox News: “Brexit was the first brick knocked out the wall and Italy could well be the second. “The point is this, let’s not get too technical about this, but the Italians have got a new government that people have voted for. “They are proposing a budget that Brussels, the unelected bureaucrats, are on the verge of rejecting. “We come up against this phenomenon where national democracy hits the wall of European bureaucracy and globalism. That really is what this is about.

Nigel Farage has warned that 'the European project' will be lucky to survive a decade

You can see the European project will be lucky to survive more than a decade Nigel Farage

“Are we as individuals capable in our own countries of deciding our futures or should somebody else livign elsewhere make those decisions? “Ultimately Italy is not going to leave the European Union any time soon but inevitably you can see the European project will be lucky to survive more than a decade.” The Lega-Five Star Movement (M5S) coalition has sparked fear among European investors and market analysts after pledging to “immediately” introduce the financial changes the parties campaigned for ahead of the March 4 election. These hefty reforms include the creation of a flat tax, which imposes the same tax percentage on all individuals regardless of income, the introduction of a national basic income and the abolition of the Fornero reform, which in 2011 established a higher retirement age for both men and women.