Since the government announced on Friday evening the closure of its borders with countries outside the European Union, many executives of the National Rally are enjoying it.
As if the crisis finally proved them right.
“The members of the government laughed in the face of those who called for this measure of common sense.
Emmanuel Macron learnedly explained to us that the virus did
not have a passport
.
One year for them to admit the obvious and protect the French, ”Marine Le Pen said on Twitter on Friday.
This tweet is one year old to the day.
The members of the government laughed in the face of those who demanded this measure of common sense, Emmanuel Macron learnedly explained to us that the virus had "no passport".
One year for them to admit the obvious and protect the French.
MLP https://t.co/40E7RBqKtQ
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) January 29, 2021
The executive has long been reluctant to touch borders.
Ideological blockage?
"We refused to use it as a miracle cure, such as
barricading ourselves and we will have no problem
, but it is a pragmatic, non-ideological tool of action", defends the Secretary of State in charge of European Affairs, Clément Beaune.
He recalls that in March, already, during the first confinement, the external borders of Europe had lowered the curtain.
Today, a majority of the political class validates this closure, justifying it by the dangerousness of the new variants of the Covid.
"Every time the EU touches something, it's a failure"
The shortage of vaccines and the European Union's negotiating strategy are also in the sights of the RN, which points to the high rate of vaccination of the British neighbor, which has ordered its own doses.
Enough to prove the Eurosceptics right?
“Every time the EU touches something, it's a dismal failure, overwhelms Jordan Bardella, vice-president of the RN.
The State should have, in a sovereign way, order directly from the laboratories.
The head of the emergency department of the Georges Pompidou hospital and mayor (LR) Philippe Juvin also recognized that the negotiation strategy "was not the right one", without charging Europe.
On the majority side, we note that the United Kingdom has opted for a strategy that involves certain risks, such as the choice to increase the time between taking the two necessary doses.
“We would have been less strong, alone, in the negotiations with the laboratories.
And if everyone had had to do their own thing, it would have been war in Europe, ”warns Clément Beaune, while regretting the delays in dose deliveries.
"There was an economic, health and solidarity interest in negotiating in a common framework," he continues, affirming that it would have been counterproductive to vaccinate France if its closest neighbors were not able to do so. make.
The government says it is doing everything to prevent a new epidemic wave.
And thus hopes to contain, by 2022, any possibility of an electoral tsunami on which the RN, for its part, relies heavily.