Marine Le Pen president? The prospect of seeing the RN candidate arrive at the Elysee gives a cold sweat in Brussels. Because if she wins the presidential election, she will likely sign the end of the European Union by blocking the European Council with its veto and depriving it of the leadership role France has played there for more than half a century. This is the disaster scenario described to us by Enrico Letta, President of the Jacques Delors Institute, former Prime Minister of Italy (2013-2014) and current leader of the Democratic Party.
How is the prospect of Marine Le Pen seen in Brussels?
We see Marine Le Pen’s victory as a scenario for the end of the world. We are faced with a possibility that has never been considered until now… simply because there is no precedent. We have never seen such a large country represented in the European Council as Marine Le Pen.
The two other examples we can point to, Victor Urban and Matteo Salvini, cannot be compared. Hungarian Viktor Orban is at the helm of a small country, moreover not in euros. As for Matteo Salvini, when he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of Italy [de juin 2018 à septembre 2019], he did not go beyond swordsmanship with European institutions in the subjects for which he was responsible, particularly immigration. But Italy was represented in Brux
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