As the euro crumbles, Britain looks to exit the EU, soon EU breakup will be mainstream

Is the end finally arriving for the euro?
EU: movement of money, people can be limited

The European Commission has been providing legal advice to others who are considering possible scenarios should Greece leave the euro, a European Union spokesman said.

Olivier Bailly said Tuesday that, legally, limits could be imposed on movement of people and money across national borders within the EU if it's necessary to protect public order or public security — but not on economic grounds.

EU studies options if Greece abandons euro

"At the commission, there is no plan whatsoever pre-supposing a Greek exit from the eurozone," he said.

"If there are people within member states or elsewhere who are studying risks, that's their responsibility.

He said: "Others are doing speculative scenarios, we are doing legal clarification," Bailly said.

The spokesman said these ideas had been discussed under "disaster scenarios," but said "we are not scriptwriters."

NOW 80% DEMAND VOTE TO QUIT EU

It also showed most of those expressing an opinion wanted to leave although the questions did not explicitly spell out the option. On if Britain should belong to a single market in a wider European Community, 40 per cent said No, 32 per cent Yes and 27 per cent Don’t Know.

Answering the peer’s second proposed question of whether to stay in the EU with the option kept open of joining the more integrated eurozone, 44 per cent said No, 36 per cent Yes, and 19 per cent Don’t Know.

Meanwhile, eurosceptic think tank Open Europe said yesterday that failure quickly to rewrite our terms of membership would result in unstoppable public support for what it believes would be a damaging exit.

Calling for the breakup of the EU was a fringe position only a few months ago, let alone years ago. Within the next few months, I suspect it will become a topic of mainstream debate.