Lance Forman issued a stinging attack on the bloc over its unstable single currency and quest for power on the world stage could lead to chaos across the continent and even war. He accused Eurocrats of ignoring the plight of unemployed youths in the EU27 in favour of building an empire and said disenfranchised citizens could join the rising tide of antisemitism as they search for a scapegoat for their problem. He told Express.co.uk: “The EU’s single currency is causing great hardship in some countries like Greece, Spain and Italy and creating benefits for Germany, which has the biggest trade surplus in the world.
“It creates resentment and this leads to extremism and I believe that is why we are seeing all this extremism. It’s driven by the Euro.
“The countries should not have the same currency but the EU are so bloody boneheaded they won’t do anything about it.
“I think it will lead to chaos in Europe and maybe war.
“There is already civil unrest in France. It could get very, very messy. That is why the EU want their own defence force – they want to be able to restrain their own people.
He added: “People will always need a reason as to why they are suffering and they could turn to antisemitism – that’s the history.
“Being Jewish and with a father who is a Holocaust survivor my antennae are sensitive.”
In an impassioned speech delivered in the European Parliament last week, Mr Forman warned the “dysfunctional and damaging Euro currency and the desire for empire has led to the most extreme Europe at any time since World War II on both right and left”.
Mr Forman’s father Marcel Forman was five years old when he and his family were forced to flee Krakow, Poland, after the Nazis had come within miles of their home.
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“But there was so much disease and a lot of people died.
“My father was one of the kids who would jump the ghetto walls to get bread to feed those in the ghetto.
“He was only four years old when the war broke out so he does not remember the rise in antisemitism in the years before it.”
The family-of-four were eventually freed and sought refuge in the UK where they settled.
Mr Forman recalled how he was reminded of Europe’s dark days earlier this month when a gunman killed two people outside a synagogue in the German city of Halle on Yom Kippur.
He said concerns over the increase in attacks on Jews forced him to wear a bullet proof vest when he headed to a London synagogue to mark the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
The Londoner decided to stand as a candidate for Nigel Farage’s group in the European election in May because of the “dangerous road Europe is heading down”.
He said: “I am very concerned for the younger generation with the issue of youth unemployment. What are the kids going to do?
“When there is chaos in the world antisemitism becomes the scapegoat.”
