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Recession: ‘End of the Euro!’ Currency a ‘trap closing in’ and will ‘explode’

Europe is struggling to fight off the dangerous possibility of a chronic shortage of gas heading into the winter as fears soar Vladimir Putin will completely cut off supplies into the continent. The European Union has accused Russia of resorting to energy blackmail and claim the move is “politically motivated”, with gas supplies running via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline to Europe already plunging to just 20 percent of its capacity.

There are fears Germany – home to the EU’s largest economy – could slump into recession as according to official figures, 52.5 billion cubic metres of gas was imported in 2020 – around double the next-closest nation.

Eurozone inflation soared to 8.6 percent last month – up from 8.1 percent in June – while earlier this month, the struggling euro hit parity against the US dollar for the first time in more than 20 years

EU critic and Frexiteer Eric Noirez warned in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk: “The situation in the Eurozone is dramatic, not to say desperate.

“We have record inflation, a record trade deficit, record national debts, continuing deindustrialisation, growth still at half-mast and, finally, an increasing loss of confidence of investors and economic actors.

“The euro is a system that has reached the end of its tether, but this is not very surprising, since the euro has always been a totally dysfunctional monetary system, which the Europeanists have wanted to keep alive at all costs, through a dogmatism that is truly irrational.

Mr Noirez, a member of the Generation Frexit campaign in France, launched a scathing attack against the “euro fanatics” who were obsessed with keeping the euro “alive at all costs, rather than saving the standard of living of the people with”.

He claimed the EU has “shot itself in the foot” and warned the euro has now become a “trap that is closing in on us”.

The Frexiteer continued: “The euro fanatics preferred to persist in their error and to keep the euro alive at all costs, rather than saving the standard of living of the people.

“But what we can reproach the most to the Europeanists is their complacency and their inability to question themselves in the face of a system that does not work: they prefer to lead us into the wall and to persist in denying reality rather than to show lucidity and to admit their mistake.”

“The euro will explode because the problems it poses are insoluble and because the crisis for which it is mainly responsible, as well as the divergences it creates between nations, will become too strong for it not to explode. “It’s simple logic: the euro exploded the debt, and now the debt will explode the euro.

Earlier this week, EU member states scrambled to approve an emergency plan to curb the use of gas for some countries.

Brussels is urging its member states to save gas for the winter months, with energy ministers giving the go-ahead for all EU countries to voluntarily cut gas use by 15 percent in the August to March period versus the average from 2017-2021.

German Economy Minister Robert Habeck insisted the quickfire deal would show Putin that Europe remains united in the face of Russia’s latest gas cuts, saying: “You will not split us.”

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