"THE EUROPEAN UNION IS HEADING TOWARDS DISINTEGRATION" SAYS FORMER ITALIAN PRIME MINISTER!!!

EU FALLING APART: Former Italy PM warns bloc DISINTEGRATING which could spark WAR

ITALY’s former prime minister has claimed the European Union could be “heading towards disintegration”, which could even spark WAR on the continent.

By GREG HEFFER, POLITICAL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 04:20, Tue, Apr 26, 2016 | UPDATED: 15:43, Tue, Apr 26, 2016

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Former Italy PM Mario Monti said the EU could fall apart

Leading europhile Mario Monti, who led a government of technocrats at the height his country’s debt crisis between 2011 and 2013, bemoaned the number of crises that are currently afflicting the Brussels-based bloc.

Over recent years, EU officials have been scrambling to deal with the eurozone crisis, soaring unemployment, the threat of Islamic State terrorism and the unprecedented influx of migrants into Europe.

Britain could also quit the 28-country bloc on June 23, which EU chiefs fear could spark a ‘domino effect’ of other member states also leaving in the event of a Brexit vote.

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Referring to these mounting troubles, Mr Monti told website Politico.eu: “The EU is going through a crisis which leads me and others for the first time to consider whether we are not heading towards disintegration.

“The EU has never been hit by such a high number of different crises of this gravity.

“What I am concerned about is that, although the EU has developed itself historically through a process of crisis, response to the crisis, and advancement, this time around it may well not happen.”

The EU has never been hit by such a high number of different crises of this gravity.

Mario Monti

The former European Commissioner even suggested if the EU were to crumble then Europe could plunge into another period of conflict between its nations.

He said: “On European soil, the natural state of affairs is not peace — if it weren’t for the structured integration of countries, which have a habit of going to war with each other from time to time.”

The Italian politician noted how among the EU’s member states “the degree of mistrust and sheer prejudices between North and South and between East and West has never been so high and so unashamedly voiced”.

Mr Monti, believed to be a leading member of the secretive Bilderberg Group of political elites, is currently heading an EU committee looking at whether the bloc’s budget should be expanded.

He suggested that amid the EU’s current state of crisis “maybe there should also be new resources”, while he also hit out at the fact power had shifted away from unelected Brussels commissioners to national leaders.

Mr Monti accused those national leaders of pandering to rising euroscepticism across European countries in order boost their own “personal political” interests domestically.

Earlier this month, European Parliament president Martin Schulz also voiced his fear the EU soon fall apart.

Admitting “many people” have now lost trust in the EU, the German politician warned a Brexit vote this summer could lead to the “implosion of the EU” as many of the remaining 27 countries will also want to “escape”.