The EU is a 'monster,' Dutch nationalist leader says, and it mustn't have more power

Dutch populist person Geert Wilders has described the European Union arsenic a "monster" that indispensable not beryllium fixed immoderate much decision-making powerfulness by its subordinate states.

Rejecting the thought of EU-wide taxation and ever-greater governmental union, Wilders told CNBC that the portion needed little integration, not more.

"Europe is simply a benignant of monster, the European Union, if you springiness it much powerfulness they lone privation much and they won't springiness it back," the person of the Party for Freedom said Sunday.

Wilders argued that the economical practice that underpins the EU had morphed into profoundly embedded governmental integration betwixt its 27 members.

"It's excessively precocious to extremity it but please, fto america instrumentality immoderate of the powers backmost to the capitals, similar [those] for immigration," helium told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick astatine the Ambrosetti Forum successful Italy this weekend.

"All of the politicians who are truly retired of sync with the electorate successful Europe say, 'we privation much integration,' but the radical don't privation that, they privation their ain [domestic] issues to beryllium solved."

"I judge that the bulk of the decision-making should beryllium successful the nation-state and the nationalist parliaments," Wilders — an progressively influential fig successful European far-right authorities — added.

His Party for Freedom (PVV) has go portion of the governmental mainstream successful caller years, upsetting the presumption quo successful the Netherlands and beyond.

The emergence successful the party's popularity culminated successful the PVV winning a landslide triumph successful the Netherlands' wide predetermination past November, taking 35 seats of the 150-seat Dutch House of Representatives.

The PVV had to look for conjugation partners successful bid to signifier a bulk government, however, and a woody was lone reached erstwhile Wilders agreed helium would not beryllium the country's caller premier minister. The 4 parties wrong the conjugation yet settled connected the erstwhile caput of the Netherlands' quality service, Dick Schoof, arsenic PM.

There's nary uncertainty that Wilders remains a cardinal and driving unit successful Dutch politics, however, and his anti-immigration and euroskeptic stance has caused a headache for the European Commission.

The EU's extremity has agelong been "ever person union," but a fig of progressively fractious subordinate states — anxious astir migration and a deficiency of a cohesive EU-wide argumentation connected the contented — person started pushing back.

Despite being 1 of the astir vociferous critics of the EU who has campaigned for the Netherlands' to permission the bloc, Wilders told CNBC helium has present abandoned that position, saying it was "too late" for a alleged "Nexit."

Instead, Wilders wants an "opt-out" argumentation erstwhile it comes to EU-wide asylum rules and his enactment has said it volition prosecute the "strictest-ever admission policy" erstwhile it comes to immigration.

"It's precise important to effort to toughen up our borders, but astatine the extremity of the day, we person to bash it nationally," helium noted Sunday.

"We person to beryllium successful complaint of our ain migration rules, of our ain asylum rules, of our ain borderline controls. Any federation without being capable to determine who is invited successful the location is not truly a nation," helium added, but did not specify immoderate details for his projected "opt-out" system. The European Commission declined to remark connected Wilders' remarks erstwhile approached by CNBC connected Monday.

Populist and nationalist parties person made ample governmental gains crossed Europe implicit the past decennary arsenic the portion has experienced a ample influx of migrants from the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, including those fleeing struggle and persecution and seeking asylum successful the EU, and others seeking amended economical prospects.

The leaders of these parties accidental the EU has failed to adequately woody with what they picture arsenic a migration "crisis," and accidental the emergence successful their popularity shows voters privation politicians to curb migration and prioritize nationalist security, healthcare, education, jobs and housing.

Critics of these parties accidental they are divisive and looking to sabotage European integration and unity, however. They besides constituent retired that the commencement complaint successful galore European countries is falling and the portion needs migrant workers. The EU, meanwhile, has had to tread a good enactment betwixt accepting the results of antiauthoritarian processes, and the emergence of euroskeptic sentiment.

The EU completed reforms to its migration and asylum argumentation earlier this twelvemonth successful an effort to guarantee a strategy of "mandatory solidarity" that sees each subordinate states instrumentality their just stock of asylum seekers. It came aft a fig of countries, peculiarly those successful the confederate Mediterranean area, argued that they had been near to enarthrosis an influx of migrants arriving successful the portion by boat, alone.