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Rupert Lowe, Brexit MEP for the West Midlands, says the only thing that is propping up the EUs sclerotic economy and Euro currency is the European Central Banks quantitative easing programme. QE, as it is known, is when a Central Bank prints money and pumps it into the economy to stimulate growth and job creation. Since 2015, the European Central Bank has bought around 2.1 trillion (1.8 trillion) of assets in a bid to boost Europes ailing economic activity.

In an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk, Mr Lowe said: The EU was failing so they rammed the Euro in.

The Euro is destined to fail and would have failed by now but for massive Central Bank quantitative easing.

It is the sort of thing third world dictators used to do shortly before they descended into chaos and that is so far what weve all got away with.

Quantitative easing is basically getting high on your own supply. I think but for that, the European Union would have collapsed, the Euro would have collapsed and it is destined to be an absolute catastrophe when it does go.

Describing the EU as a protectionist entity created by socialists, the former owner of Southampton FC argued that Britain had absolutely nothing to fear and everything to gain from a no-deal Brexit.

He explained: I dont see any problem myself with leaving on World Trade Organisation rules.

The whole of the Establishment machine has frightened everybody into thinking that we have to have some form of trade deal signed and sealed before we can leave, but its nonsense.

Our trade is growing with countries like India, Uzbekistan and other developing countries and we dont have a trade deal with them.

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The Brexit MEP described it as lunacy not to do so, although he did concede that Britain should still trade with Europe.

He was confident that Michel Barnier and his chums would agree a trade deal with the UK, given that the EU benefits to a far greater extent from commerce with the UK than the UK does with Europe.

He said: We have a 100 billion trade deficit with Europe. If we dont reach a trade deal with Europe, they lose. It is so simple.

As a committed free-marketeer, Mr Lowe sees Brexit as a unique opportunity to unleash the buccaneering spirit of British entrepreneurialism, which must not be constrained by an interfering British state.

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He said: I am a free-marketeer, I do not believe in the state getting anything right. If you look at history, the state always gets things wrong.

We want an economy with a minimal state; it encourages entrepreneurial behaviour and now is the time for entrepreneurship.

Look at how things are changing. We cannot have this sort of historical cloth-cap view of how life should be lived.

We have to let entrepreneurs and the people drive where we go, not the state.

Boris Johnson has declared that the UK will leave the EU by January 31 2020 and that the transition period, in which both the UK and EU will attempt to reach a trade deal, will not be extended beyond the current deadline of December 31, 2020.

Should both sides fail to reach an agreement, the UK will leave without a trade deal and conduct its future trade with Europe on WTO terms.

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Chairman of think tank British Influence and EU law specialist, Peter Wilding spoke to Express.co.uk about the current state of the Brexit process. Mr Wilding is credited as the man responsible for coining the term Brexit. He was appointed by former Prime MinisterDavid Cameronas Media and Policy Director of the Conservative Party in the EU.

He revealed the top thing he would change about the EU to give it a much more coherent direction.

He said: The EU is a bit like Birmingham in the 19th century.

Birmingham had about 100 gas companies and things like that.

It had an alphabet soup of competing organisations, and then Joseph Chamberlain came along and put them all under one roof and unified it.

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Mr Wilding continued: The European Union has got the European Union, the European Economic Area, the Council of Europe, the European Security and Defence Counsel, a lot of organisations.

You probably didnt know that MPs can sit in the NATO General Assembly, they sit in the Counsel of Europe, they sit in the European Security and Defence Council.

My view was Britain could say lets bring all of these under one roof.

Lets have a European Security Council, and the big five countries sit on that Security Council.

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BRUSSELS The end of the year is a time for closure and new beginnings. As 2019 winds down, that is certainly the case with Brexit. Following the victory of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Tories in the general election this month, it is now clear that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on Jan. 31.

For many, including me, the occasion will be tinged with regret. But it also represents an opportunity to forge a new U.K.-EU partnership. And besides, things could have been much worse. Owing to the withdrawal agreement that was concluded this past October, a destructive hard Brexit has been averted.

Since the beginning of the Brexit negotiations, we on the EU side the 27 member states and the European Parliament have not strayed from the blocs core interests nor lost sight of the need for unity and solidarity.

Our priority was first and foremost to secure the rights of European citizens, including by finding a solution for the people of Northern Ireland and Ireland, for whom the negotiations were about peace and stability, not just trade and the economy. Throughout the process, we have protected the EU single market and its guarantees for consumers, public and animal health standards, and safeguards against fraud and trafficking. But we also did our utmost to preserve a climate of trust between the EU and the U.K., and to lay a solid foundation for a new partnership.

In accordance with its own wishes, the U.K. will no longer participate in EU institutions as of Feb. 1. But it will remain in the single market and the customs union at least until the end of 2020. And the free movement of people between the EU and the U.K. will continue, which means that it will be business as usual for citizens, consumers, businesses, students and researchers on both sides of the channel over the next year.

Moreover, with the transition period, there will be time to implement practical measures to guarantee EU and U.K. citizens rights, establish the customs and border arrangements agreed in Northern Ireland, and start to negotiate an agreement on the future relationship. But in the absence of a decision by the U.K. before next July to extend the transition period which Johnson has ruled out a deal on the future relationship will have to be concluded in less than 11 months.

That will be immensely challenging, but we will give it our all, even if we wont be able to achieve everything. Never will it be the EU that fails on common ambition.

Since it is the time for New Years resolutions, we should set three goals to achieve by this time next year. First, the EU and the U.K. must ensure that we have the means to work together and discuss joint solutions to global challenges. The U.K. may be leaving the EU, but it is not leaving Europe. As European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently put it, Whatever the future holds, the bond and the friendship between our people are unbreakable. From addressing climate change and promoting effective multilateralism, to defending our homelands and countering those who choose violence over peaceful solutions, we share essential interests and values.

That is why the EU will continue to engage positively with the U.K., both bilaterally and in global forums such as the United Nations, the World Trade Organization and the Group of 20. Consider climate change. Next year, the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP26) will take place in Glasgow, Scotland. Setting ambitious targets will require a strong common position. If the EU and the U.K. cannot align on such a critical issue, there is little hope that others around the world will be able to do so.

Second, we need to build a close security relationship. Here, too, the U.K.s departure from the EU has consequences. The strong security cooperation that EU member states have put in place is linked to the free movement of people. It works because we have common rules, common supervision mechanisms and a common Court of Justice. Because we trust each other and are assured that our fundamental rights are protected, we are able to share data extensively and implement integrated solutions.

The same degree of cooperation is simply not possible with a third country that is outside of the Schengen area. But neither the EU nor the U.K. can guarantee its security without looking beyond its borders and building alliances. Tackling terrorism, cyberattacks and other attempts to undermine our democracies will require a joint effort. The lives of our citizens depend on our ability to count on each other. That is why there can be no trade-off on our mutual security. This should be an unconditional commitment from both sides. I know that the EUs high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Josep Borrell, agrees.

Third, by this time next year, we need an economic partnership that reflects our common interests, geographical proximity and interdependence. In the political declaration agreed to in October alongside the withdrawal agreement, the U.K. government made clear that it will pursue a free trade agreement with the EU and rejected the idea that it would remain in the EU customs union. That means the U.K. and the EU will become two separate markets.

The EU including its trade commissioner, Phil Hogan will engage in these negotiations in a positive spirit, with the willingness to make the most of the short time available. But, like the U.K., we will keep our strategic interests in mind. We know that competing on social and environmental standards rather than on skills, innovation and quality leads only to a race to the bottom that puts workers, consumers and the planet on the losing side. Thus, any free trade agreement must provide for a level playing field on standards, state aid and tax matters.

These are our three goals for 2020: to maintain a capacity to cooperate closely at the global level; to forge a strong security partnership; and to negotiate a new economic agreement (which, most likely, will have to be expanded in the years to come). If we achieve these three objectives, we will have made the most of the next year. As soon as we receive our mandate from the 27 EU member states, our team will be ready to negotiate in a constructive spirit with the U.K. a country that we will always regard as a friend, ally and partner.

Michel Barnier is a former vice president of the European Commission and French foreign minister. He is currently EU chief negotiator for Brexit. Project Syndicate, 2019

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In December 2019, more than 60% of Ukrainians chose the accession to the European Union as a vector of countrys foreign policy orientation.

This is evidenced by results of the nationwide survey conducted by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation jointly with the Razumkov Center, which were presented during a press conference at the Ukrinform news agency on December 26.

In recent years, the public opinion on the choice of foreign policy orientation has been stable. Thus, in December 2014, 57% of respondents chose joining EU and 16% - joining the Customs Union; in December 2015 - 59% and 13%, respectively; in December 2016 - 58% and 11%; in December 2017 - these figures were 59% and 11%; last year - 59% and 12.5%; and in December 2019, 64% of the polled chose joining the EU and 13% - the Customs Union, the results reveal.

At the same time, the majority of the population believes that accession to NATO would be the best option for guaranteeing Ukraines security. This view, according to the research, is supported by 51% of Ukrainian citizens (46% last year) while 1.5% of respondents hope for the military alliance with the United States.

In general, 44% of Ukrainians believe that the country is on the right path.

The survey was conducted from December 13 to December 18, 2019 in all regions of Ukraine except Crimea and the occupied territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions. The theoretical sampling error does not exceed 2.3%.

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Is the European Union beginning to disintegrate?

Spain has become the most recent nation to threaten a Brexit-style exit from the European Union amid anger over a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling last Thursday that a jailed Catalanseparatist leader should not have been stripped of parliamentary immunity, overruling Spanish courts on the subject.

Oriol Junqueras and nine other Catalan separatist leaders were jailed in 2017 for their role in an illegal independence referendum. Junqueras is currently serving a 13-year prison term for sedition, but was still elected as a Member of European Parliament (MEP) last May. Last Thursday, the ECJ ruled that Junqueras should be immediately released and allowed to take his seat in European Parliament in Brussels.

The ruling has many Spaniards up in arms, especially those in the right-wing Vox Party, which is now under serious pressure to back a Spanish version of the Brexit referendum. The president of the Vox Party, Santiago Abascal, criticized the ruling and said plainly that Spain should not have to comply with the ECJs ruling.

Abascal went on to say that Spain needs to confront this interference from the EU and that the Vox Party is not going to accept more humiliations of this type from the government in Brussels or the ECJ in Luxembourg.

Spain, (as other countries do) should not abide by any judgment of those who attack our sovereignty and security, Abascal tweeted.

The Vox Party is currently the third-largest party in Spain, but has seen a surge of support over the past year. Among its tenets are a repatriation of sovereign powers from Brussels back to the national governments. Vox has not officially backed the Spaxit movement yet, but grassroots pressure is urging them to do so. Incidents such as this with the EU.attempting to strongarm the release of a person convicted of sedition wont bolster the blocs popularity.

Everyday Spanish people seem to be getting on board with an exit from the Big Brother EU as the hashtag #Spaxit even became trending on Twitter.

And Spain is not the only EU nation becoming tired of the intrusive reach of Brussels. Just last week, EU judges hinted that Poland might have to leave the bloc if recent judicial reform proposals are accepted. Among the reforms is a proposal that judges could be removed if they question government reforms.

Poland has already been referred to the ECJ regarding its rules for judges.

Polands ruling party,Law and Justice, argues that reforms to the judiciary are needed in order to battle corruption and overhaul the judicial system, which the new ruling party claims is still influenced by the Communist era of the country. One of the ways that the reforms attempted to address this was to lower the retirement ages for judges in an effort to root out communist holdover judges.

Polands National Judicial Council (NCJ) has already been suspended from membership in the European Network of Councils for the Judiciary.

With Polands reluctance to becomepolitically correct on many issues and their obvious distaste for their communist past, the EU might be in the position of having to demand the Poles leave the bloc before the Polish citizens demand the separation.

Spain, Poland, and all nations of the European Union have their own specific cultures, which are important to them. The EUs insistence on political correctness, its leftist cultural leanings, and its love for mass immigration are starting to wear on everyday Europeans.

Spain wants to jail people it considers seditious. Poland wants to reform its own judicial system. The EUs insistence on butting in on the internal affairs of its members is endangering its own existence.

Euroscepticism, a European political movement that advocates for countries to disengage from the European Union, is on the rise in many nations in the bloc. Having witnessed Great Britains current attempt to remove herself from entanglement with the EU has inspired movements all over Europe to do the same.

Spain, Poland, and other current EU nations will be watching the British experiment in leaving the union very carefully. The United Kingdoms success or failure in standing on its own feet again without Big Brother Europe watching over it will likely be a key in whether the European Union can stay viable going forward.

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James Murphy is a freelance journalist who writes on a variety of subjects with a primary focus on the ongoing anthropogenic climate-change hoax and cultural issues. He can be reached atThis email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

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