Macron’s election gamble has engineered a dangerous moment for France and the European Union
French far right leader Marine Le Pen, centre, with local mayor Steeve Briois, after voting in the first round of the parliamentary election last week. Photograph: AP Photo/Thibault Camus
The pact theory suggests that in return for agreeing to a united Germany and Germany’s resurrection as a political force on the world stage through a more politically integrated EU, France got back control of its economy. French president Emmanuel Macron’s snap election gamble in response to his party’s poor European election showing was intended to shock France out of its flirtation with the far-right politics of Marine Le Pen and her National Rally party.
She spent most of the 2000s distancing herself and the party from her father Jean-Marie’s neo-fascist tendencies and her family’s links to the collaborationist Vichy regime. While the political ramifications of Sunday’s second-round legislative election have still to play out, Le Pen’s rise will test not only France’s allegiance to the European project but the operation of the EU itself and at a crucial juncture with the world ablaze in a new cold war and a belligerent Russia attacking a country on its border.
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