European Union heading towards a serious collapse as various groups form alliance

With the look of things it appears some countries in the EU may also consider their exit after Brexit-Britain. This is because too many things are beginning to cause division among member states, top among such cause is immigration.

To further buttress this assertion, some member states numbering seven tagged “Southern EU Countries” met in El Pardo Palace in Madrid, Spain. A move seen by many as flex of muscles.

Also, countries made up of the Iberian nations like France, Italy, Greece, Cyprus and Malta met and released the outcome of their meeting demanding that EU nations need to “share responsibility and solidarity” Also putting a demand for Northern countries to have their share of the EU immigration quota

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said a common migration policy was one of the top priorities for the group, and Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni declared the seven Southern European countries share “common geopolitical interests,” especially in terms of “migrant flows.”

Spain’s secretary of state for the EU Jorge Toledo said: “We’re the countries that spend the most resources… in border protection and we’re protecting the border of the whole EU, also that of the Northern European countries.”

Saying that, that will put the group on collision course with East European nations in the bloc, especially the Visegrád countries – Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - who are far more Eurosceptic, more negative towards mass immigration into the EU and against a centralised EU.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said in the past: “We have to return to the thesis that the member states and not EU institutions form the basis of the EU.

“The democratic features of the EU can only be strengthened through member states.” Saying clearly that he will not take part in any idea of allocating migrants who arrived the EU.

In a similar vein, the Visegrád group has also been at loggerheads with those countries advocating a more integrationist and centralist direction of the EU.

Meanwhile, those championing for a close integration want a single European budget, a European treasury, a common foreign policy and a single defence force and security organisations.

Southern EU countries, in turn, want to liberalise the EU borrowing rules and allow great flexibility, which especially appeals to the beleaguered countries of Italy and Greece.

In his days as the Italian Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi said: “More growth and more investment, less austerity and less bureaucracy, this is the line we have proposed for two years.”

Also internally within member states local politics has sown huge apple of discord, for example, the                                                                                                                                  right-wing parties such as France’s Front National and Germany’s anti-immigrant Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), let alone the likes of the Dutch Party for Freedom and Italy’s 5 Star Movement - collectively seen as populist parties - who want to keep the EU at arms length, invariably leaving the bloc altogether.

Jayne Adye, Director of cross-party Eurosceptic campaign group Get Britain Out, said: “It has been clear for some time the EU is divided about almost everything. Divided about the Euro, divided about the EU’s direction of travel and divided about immigration. Some want more EU, most want less, and Britain wants no EU at all.

 “The Visegrad countries don’t want to accept any more refugees, while Southern Europe is demanding it.

 “The Germans want the Greeks to pay back their debt in full, but the IMF believes there should be a reduction in Greek debt. Greece is refusing to settle as they are completely fed up with austerity – so there will be a summer of discontent.

 “These are only a few of the problems.

 “A critical flaw within the EU is the pretence all EU countries are exactly the same. In the absurd belief all EU countries have the same culture, history and political views. But they are not - and they do not!

 “Since the turn of this century the EU has enlarged at a rate of knots, including countries which have totally different ideological views than the original members. As a result, the EU has split into different factions, constantly arguing about the EU and its future.

 “It is clear, however, the EU currently does far too much. Perhaps if it abandoned its plans for a European ‘superstate’ and transformed to a simple trading relationship, the countries of Europe would get along far better in the future.”