Marine Le Pen on the warpath with the EU

Ahead of May’s European Parliamentary elections, Marine Le Pen, President of France’s National Rally, told Euronews she wanted her National Rally party to be “a very large group defending nations and opposing this European Union”, which she considered to have “failed”.

She added that it is absolutely necessary that Emmanuel Macron be defeated in the May elections because if the French president loses the vote, it would send a message that he “cannot continue the second part of his mandate as he started the first”.

Macron has been facing mounting pressure from the Gilets Jaunes (yellow vests) protest movement since it kicked-off in mid-November over the high cost of living and his pro-business reforms.

Le Pen also told Euronews “to save Europe, you have to turn away from the European Union” and said cancelling the Schengen agreement, which allows free movement of EU citizens, stopping “unfair” international competition, and putting an end to free trade agreements, are “necessary to save our territory”.

Via Euronews