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For the first time in the political history of France, the anti-European extreme right and extreme left will have a very important presence in the new National Assembly (AN) elected next June. France, historical engine of the political construction of Europe, with Germany, there have always been “Eurosceptic”, nationalist and ultra-nationalist political forces.
In 1954, the AN rejected the European Defense Community (CED) project, the first major European Defense project. In 2005, France rejected with a national referendum the draft Treaty that was to establish a European Constitution.
These profound anti-European currents cohabited and were compatible with the irreproachable Europeanism of the great parties of the left and right and of all the presidents of the left and right, since the first European Coal and Steel Community (CECA, 1951).
The great historical novelty of the legislative elections, on June 12 and 19, is the predictably spectacular entry into the new AN of National Association (AN, extreme right)the anti-European party of Marine Le Pen, and La France Insumisa (LFI), the anti-European party of Jean-Luc Mélenchon.
According to initial estimates, Emmanuel Macron “should” have an absolute or considerable majority in the new AN. But the entry of Le Pen and Mélenchon into the first chamber of Parliament will be very noisy, a true reflection of the emergence of a deep, peripheral and anti-European, popular France, seduced by the populist sirens of the extreme left and extreme right.
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Before Europe, the position of France in the political construction of Europe, and the military defense of a continent threatened by the imperialism of Vladimir Putin. Le Pen and Mélenchon agree on all essential points:
– They demand the immediate withdrawal from NATO, replaced by an “equidistance” towards Moscow and Washignton.
– They defend “disobedience” towards common EU treaties and rules in economic and commercial matters: a thinly veiled form of “Frexit”, France’s exit from the EU.
– They defend the “supremacy” of national laws and political projects against the “savage liberalism” and the “stateless bureaucracy” of the EU.
–Against the EU, they defend a “Europe of sovereign nations” that would “renegotiate” its relations with Russia. In “practical” terms, it seems unlikely or not at all that such propositions and policy projects will become a reality, tomorrow, in the short term. The evidence remains: this is a radical novelty in the political history of France and Europe.
The traditional political parties, left and right, solid defenders of France’s position in the political construction of Europe, have collapsed or are in a comatose state, Le Pen and Mélenchon announce the consolidation of an anti-European Francehostile to the projects of President Macron.
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