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Apr 5, 2024 · If elected, a Le Pen presidency would at best lead to five years of drift and confusion at home and in the EU capital. At worst, it could remove a nuclear power, G7 member and permanent member of the U.N. Security Council from the Western alliance, starting a process that could break the EU apart — at least in its current form.
Apr 11, 2022 · But Le Pen is intent on the EU’s deconstruction. She promises to restore the primacy of French law over EU law, which is incompatible with membership of the 27-nation union.
Apr 11, 2022 · Marine Le Pen has a realistic chance of winning the French presidency. The impact of that on the EU, NATO and European security would be profoundly destabilising. In the 2017 election, Le Pen’s promise to hold a referendum on France’s euro membership was ill-timed.
Apr 21, 2022 · In Brussels, President Le Pen announces she will effectively abolish the European Commission, the bloc’s executive arm, by transforming it into a Secretariat to rubber-stamp legislation agreed by the Council of EU heads of state. She will immediately reduce France’s contribution to the EU budget by €5 billion per year.
Apr 20, 2022 · Le Pen wants to renegotiate the Schengen Agreement, giving EU citizens advantages over others in terms of the free movement of persons. France’s contribution to the EU budget would be cut.
Apr 11, 2022 · EU implications. Since Brexit, the calls for 'Frexit' have been toned down, but a Le Pen presidency could mark a new wave of Euroscepticism. She told Le Parisien in 2017 that she would tear apart France's relationship with the EU "to give back to the French people their sovereignty".
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Apr 19, 2022 · A Le Pen presidency would further challenge the EU response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, likely through weaker or delayed sanctions and a stop to EU-funded weapons procurement. Russia’s support to France’s far right has been evident for years, and Le Pen’s Rassemblement National party benefited from a loan from a Russian entity.
