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'..a French referendum on European Union membership..'

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<blockquote>'France's far right National Front party called for a French referendum on European Union membership on Friday, cheering a Brexit vote it hopes can boost its eurosceptic agenda at home.

The anti-immigrant, anti-euro FN, was the only major French political party to call for Britons to vote to leave the EU.

"Victory for freedom!" said FN chief Marine Le Pen, who displayed the British flag on her Twitter page. "We now need to hold the same referendum in France and in (other) EU countries."

Her deputy Florian Philippot said it was now France's turn to vote to leave the EU. "The liberty of peoples always wins in the end! Bravo to the United Kingdom," he wrote on Twitter. "Our turn now #Brexit #Frexit."

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Le Pen had said last month that if she won next year's French presidential election she would immediately start negotiations with Brussels on a series of sovereignty issues including the single currency. If those failed, she would ask voters to back leaving the EU in a referendum, she said.

Le Pen is the front-runner among likely candidates ahead of the 2017 presidential vote. However polls see her losing the run-off.'

- Far right FN party calls for French 'Frexit' referendum on EU, June 24, 2016</blockquote>


<blockquote>'Mr Cameron’s sense of foreboding about the political forces he was unleashing ran through the speech he gave on that winter day in 2013, at Bloomberg’s London headquarters, as he finally gave Conservative MPs the vote on Europe they had long craved.

“It’s true that our geography has shaped our psychology,” he said. “We have the character of an island nation — independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel.”

Those words turned out to be prophetic. In the end British exceptionalism triumphed over Mr Cameron’s warnings about the risks of Brexit, as the country decided to end its 43-year EU membership. As a result, the prime minister decided he had to go.'

- How Brexit spelled the end to Cameron’s career, June 24, 2016</blockquote>


Context

<blockquote>U.K. Votes for Brexit as Cameron Resigns After Historic Rupture, June 24, 2016

(Monetary) bureaucracy - '..our organizations are .. hostages to an ideology that is, in a real sense, inhuman.'

((Monetary) bureaucracy) - The Magnitude of the Mess We're In</blockquote>