This article comes from “Figaro Magazine”.
“Our political family was built on the model of a man who knew how to stand up and say “no” to lead towards hope.
In continuation of this “no”, General de Gaulle has always worked to give our country the means for its independence.
The man who claimed to be his heir, Jacques Chirac, freshly converted to the cause, made the late choice of submission by supporting the Treaty of Maastricht.
This submission was, as a bonus, the culmination of permanent denials intended to endear himself to the "elites" of the time and thus obtain a patent in political respectability like children unhooking the tiger's tail on merry-go-rounds.
Terrible submission which only had the effect of distancing Europe from its citizens.
A submission to the dictates of the technocrats in Brussels.
A submission even from our jurisdictional authorities which ended up subjecting our Constitution to European law.
This rallying to Jacques’ “yes”…
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