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Italy's Luigi Di Maio has called for a referendum as France, Holland and Denmark follow Britain

Italy’s anti-establishment 5-Star movement has now officially 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. “The mere fact that a country like Great Britain even held a referendum on whether to leave the EU signals the failure of the European Union.”


The 5-Star movement has called for two different currencies in Europe, one for the rich northern countries another for southern nations. While any such referendums on the EU or the Euro would be merely test public opinion because Italian law does not allow referendums to change international treaties, a victory would send a clear signal to the government, especially in the wake of Brexit.

GETTY Luigi Di Maio wants a referendum on whether Italy should keep the Euro

GETTY Marine Le Pen backs Brexit and has called for France to hold its own referendum

Brexit is a huge blow to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's Democratic Party and was hailed by supporters of 5-Star as a possible springboard to Italian independence. In France, National Front party leader Marine Le Pen promised voters their own referendum as she declared her support for Brexit. She said: “I would have voted for Brexit. France has a thousand more reasons to leave than the UK because we have the euro and Schengen. "This result shows the EU is decaying, there are cracks everywhere.”

GETTY Concerns have been raised the EU is on the verge of collapse

Experts across the continent warned that Brexit would lead to the entire break-up of Europe. The leader of the far-right Danish People’s Party says Denmark should now 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.

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