Nigel Farage (Member of European Parliament),  spoke... about the increasing unrest in the eurozone: “Strikes, strikes, strikes. Lots and lots of strikes and demonstrations. Big strikes today, all across the Mediterranean, but they are now beginning to permeate northwards. In fact, there has been a very major strike in Belgium today...
       “I was actually due to go to the European Parliament today but couldn’t get there. No planes, no trains. Ostensibly the strikes are about protests to government austerity. Strikes are now becoming an almost everyday feature of life in Europe.
      "If people haven’t got hope, through their own directly elected representatives, then all they can do is take to the streets in increasing numbers, and these aren’t peaceful strikes.... We’re talking here about tear gas, rubber bullets, violence, lots of injuries. This is very, very nasty stuff, and I see absolutely no prospect of it ending in the short-term.
      It doesn’t matter how many people are starving or homeless. That doesn’t matter. The ‘Great European Project’ must continue. ...isn’t it truly astonishing that we have Nazism on the rise in Southern Europe?”

“These aren’t just people walking down the road carrying banners. We’re talking here about tear gas, rubber bullets, violence, lots of injuries. This is very, very nasty stuff, and I see absolutely no prospect of it ending in the short-term.

It doesn’t matter how many people are starving or homeless. That doesn’t matter. The ‘Great European Project’ must continue. That’s why I have absolutely no hesitation in saying that I don’t just disagree with the architects of this European project, I believe them to be fundamentally bad and dangerous people.

In Greece, we talked before when it went through 50% youth unemployment. The last figures I saw were (a shocking) 57%. So we are now pushing up towards 60% (youth unemployment). What we are looking at is something, I’m afraid, that is very, very akin to the Weimar Republic and that breakdown which happened in Germany in the early 1930s that led to Hitler.

I’m not saying Hitler is coming back to haunt Europe, but what I am saying is, isn’t it truly astonishing that we have Nazism on the rise in Southern Europe?”

Farage also added: “The feedback I get from across Europe, and I’m talking Poland, the Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, etc., the feedback is astonishing. I did a speech about Spain a few months ago, pointing out just the hopelessness of their position inside the eurozone and why they should leave.