Bob Geldof: Broken EU needs an overhaul

Bob Geldof has said the European Union does not work. One of the highest- profile, celebrity pro-EU campaigners during the Brexit referendum, he said Brussels needs a radical overhaul.

Speaking before an audience of students in Dublin, Geldof also predicted a European war within a generation or two, as the West lurches towards nationalism and populism.

“Europe needs reform — it is sclerotic,” he told Trinity College Dublin’s Law Society, which awarded him its Praeses Elit medal for his contribution to music and the greater good. “The whole system is constipated. It needs a laxative to clear it out.”