Marine Le Pen has dropped the mention of France's withdrawal from the European Union from her presidential campaign platform, but it seems that this is the unavoidable effect of her anti-immigrant and pro-national preference policies.
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The European Union does not feature in Marine Le Pen's official program, nor in the large fifteen-page theme pamphlets that describe in further depth the candidate's radical right-wing platform. There is a chapter on heritage, another on family, and still another on animal conservation, but there is nothing on what has been the most important part of French foreign policy for more than fifty years: the Middle East and North Africa.
For Marine Le Pen, the European Union serves neither a function nor a need. More like a ball, an affliction that would need to be removed from one's body. Since 2017, it has given up on the idea of abandoning the euro and is instead pushing ahead in the shadows, adopting a more discreet but no less extreme stance. Furthermore, if she is elected, she will begin by removing the European Union flag from the pediment of all government buildings in the nation. The sign couldn't be any more straightforward.
Even though Marine Le Pen's agenda does not explicitly address European policy as such, the issue of whether or not France should become a member of the European Union emerges at every step in her proposal.
When it comes to dealing with the "migratory submersion" that has been allegedly "organized" by Europe, Marine Le Pen, who fears being challenged in her desire to put a stop to immigration by the European Court of Human Rights or the European Court of Justice, wants to organize a referendum on constitutional amendment as soon as he is elected president of France.
According to her, "I enshrine the primacy of constitutional law above European law." This fundamental development in our legal system will have implications not only in the field of immigration, but also in all other areas, allowing France to reconcile its European commitment with the preservation of its sovereignty and the defense of its interests, as well as with the defense of its interests.
Clearly, Marine Le Pen would like to take advantage of a Europe-à-la-carte system, in which she could pick and choose the European decisions that she supports and reject those that she opposes, such as free trade agreements, social policy, enlargement, the PAC, Frontex, defense, and so on. However, she does not believe that this is possible.
But the difficulty is that this referendum - in the sense that it receives a majority of French votes - is in direct violation of the treaties. "From a European point of view, the inclusion of this national primacy in the Constitution is unlawful," adds Christine Verger, vice-president of the Jacques-Delors Institute. "The sheer fact of putting this national primacy in the Constitution is unconstitutional."
In the words of Jean-Louis Bourlanges, a centrist deputy and the head of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Assembly, "it is ludicrous to assert the supremacy of national law above European legislation while simultaneously declaring that European legislation does not exist." Marine Le Pen has given up on the idea of an official withdrawal from Europe, but her platform is fundamentally incompatible with France being a member of the European Union.
His promise to give priority in employment, social assistance, and social housing only to French citizens would not only call into question "the fundamental principles of equality and fraternity" of the republican pact, as constitutionalist Dominique Rousseau has argued, but it would also undermine "the fundamental principles of equality and fraternity" of the republican pact. Moreover, it is incompatible with the European treaties, which govern the free movement of people and access to work in all of the Union's member nations.
National borders that have been abolished - with the exception of recent derogations for terrorism and the Covid - since the Schengen accords were consistently endorsed at the polls would similarly be in violation of European Union laws if they were reinstated.
However, some of the ideas are less serious, such as the intention to support its social expenditures by cutting France's contribution to the Union's budget. In the words of Christine Verger: "It's simply not conceivable since the multi-annual budget for the period 2021-2027 has already been approved." As a result, Marine Le Pen has little power to make significant changes to it. If France persisted, Yves Bertoncini, head of the European Movement France, tells us, "the Commission would slash the CAP payments from which it is the biggest recipient," which is exactly what would happen.
These haphazardly put jigsaw pieces demonstrate the abandoning of all the concepts on which France has built its economic, political, and legal environment since the conclusion of World War II and the signing of the Treaty of Rome, when placed end to end.
While some suggestions are more serious, others are less so, such as the desire to sustain its social expenditures by reducing France's contribution to the Union's budget, which is a less serious proposal. It's just not imaginable, according to Christine Verger, "since the multi-annual budget for the period 2021-2027 has already been authorized," she says. As a consequence, Marine Le Pen has little ability to affect substantial changes in the country's political landscape. If France persists, Yves Bertoncini, the president of the European Movement France, says us, "the Commission would decrease the CAP funds from which it is the largest receiver," which is precisely what would happen if the country did not give up its position.
When placed end to end, these hastily arranged jigsaw pieces indicate the abandonment of all the ideals on which France has constructed its economic, political, and legal environment since the close of World War II and the signing of the Treaty of Rome.
In the current geopolitical environment, his appearance in the Elysée Palace would be a watershed moment with much more significant ramifications. Her political closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose model she praised only a few months ago, and her reaffirmed desire to negotiate with him the security architecture of Europe would plunge the Twenty-Seven into an abyss. of disarray as they attempted to maintain their cohesion against the Russian aggressor at all costs, a situation that would be disastrous for the European Union.