Brexit timeline (Image: Express) Rather, citizens registered in the Registry of Italians Residing Abroad (Aire) in England and Wales have more than doubled in the space of seven years.
Following the UK s departure from the bloc, eurosceptism across Italy has grown with many urging Italy to follow Britain and leave the EU.
Earlier this month, Italexit founder Gianluigi Paragone said his party would not support the new Prime Minister Mario Draghi in the upper house of parliament, and added this is the time for Italy to leave the EU.
This comes as Spanish eurosceptics have officially launched a campaign for Spain to have a referendum on its membership of the EU.
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The president of the Generation Frexit campaign Charles-Henri Gallois said support for France s departure from Brussels was growing following the EU s “terrible” management of its vaccine rollout. Speaking to Mike Graham on talkRADIO, Mr Gallois said that European Commission s handling of the coronavirus crisis is the best advert for Frexit. He also said that Frexit campaigners were trying to get presidential rivals to Emmanuel Macron to sign up to a Frexit referen
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The Spexit referendum campaign was launched by left-wing eurosceptic party SOMOS España but aims at a cross-party solution to Spain s subjugation to the Brussels bloc. Speaking to Express.co.uk, SOMOS España leader Luis Carlos Nogues said: This is a transversal initiative, not led by any political party.
Catalonia: Carles Puigdemont exiled to Belgium after failing to split from Spain (Image: GETTY)
Organisers said 90 percent of voters backed a split but turnout was only 43 percent amid a boycott by unionists.
After the referendum, the Catalan Parliament voted in a secret ballot to approve a resolution declaring independence from Spain by a vote of 70–10 in the absence of the constitutionalist deputies, who refused to participate in a vote considered illegal for violating the decisions of the Constitutional Court of Spain.
Not a single state recognised this as legitimate.
Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont fled to Belgium after the failed bid to break up from Spain.
Spain: SOMOS Espana leader Luis Carlos Nogues (Image: SOMOS ESPANA) We are not talking about telling the French or the Italians how they have to rule their country when they become independent from the European Union. We just want to fight together making the Eurexit Movement international.
Generation Frexit founder Charles-Henri Gallois also told Express.co.uk last week he believed teaming up with parties across the bloc would open the door to more debates on the EU in France.
He said: “I’m for Frexit but this is not only a Frexit project.
Frexit campaigner Charles-Henri Gallois (Image: GENERATION FREXIT)