The RN presidential candidate Marine Le Pen castigated on Tuesday January 18 the idea of "
European sovereignty
" defended according to her by the "
Macron-Pécresse twins
" which "
seems to her to be totally incompatible with the presidential function
" guarantor of "
the national independence
”. The presidential election will be an opportunity to "
decide between two visions of Europe
", that of the "
Europeanists
", of a Union "
dominating nations
", and "
that which I carry of a European alliance of nations
“, argued the former MEP from 2004 to 2017 during a press conference organized the day before a speech by Emmanuel Macron in Strasbourg to launch the French presidency of the Council of the EU (PFUE).
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Marine Le Pen also criticized her political opponent in 2017 for wanting to "
advance the migration pact, that is to say, to divest states of their powers in migration matters
" and "
organize the demographic submersion of Europe
" . For the far-right candidate, Emmanuel Macron is "
the only head of state who does not want to use this presidency to advance the specific interests of his country
". "
He remained for four years the factotum of Mrs. Merkel
", the former German chancellor, and his project for the EU is "
unrealistic, dangerous
". As for the candidate of LR Valérie Pécresse, she "
shares the same vision of the EU as
Emmanuel Macron " and did "
no national vision
", while Les Républicains are "
divided between globalists and nationals
", according to Marine Le Pen.
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She hailed the “
acts of resistance
” by Hungarian and Polish conservative leaders towards the EU, whom she met in the fall. She lamented that the EU “
does not conceive of Europe as a community of civilization but as a vast
economic market”. "
The destruction of our identity has become the leitmotif of Brussels technocrats
", she launched, evoking a "
specific identity of Europe
" based on "
its Christian heritage
" and "
nourished by the Greek spirit, the Roman order
. "
In the EU everything remains to be changed
",she concluded by advocating in particular the re-establishment of "
permanent controls at national borders
“, the “
exit
” from the European energy market which is “
total nonsense
”, and “
the exit of agricultural products from free trade agreements
”.
Several other candidates have planned to speak on Europe before Emmanuel Macron's speech.
His opponent Eric Zemmour will talk about it on Wednesday in Calais.
