France’s far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen urges a break with France’s recent diplomatic past. She has drawn criticism in the past for a shaky grasp of geopolitics
Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen sought on Wednesday to play up her leadership credentials on the world stage, urging a break with France’s recent diplomatic past to make what she called a country that “still counts.”
She told international and French media that she wanted to clear up “misunderstandings” about her foreign policy. “As soon as the Russian-Ukrainian war is over and has been settled by a peace treaty, I will call for the implementation of a strategic rapprochement between NATO and Russia,” Le Pen said.
While supporting Franco-German friendship and asserting that French and German should replace English as the operating languages of European institutions, she warned that “strategic differences” would mean a new way of working with Berlin. She advocated a looser version of the European Union although reaffirmed that she would keep France in the 27-nation bloc. Le Pen previously dropped calls to ditch the euro currency or leave the EU, which cost her votes in past elections.
Her programme aims to hollow out the EU and would put her on a collision course with most of the bloc’s partners on many points, including plans to cut French contributions to the EU budget and re-establish the primacy of French law over EU law.
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