Saturday, January 7, 2017

Le Pen to push for 'Frexit' if EU refuses to cede powers

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen pledged Friday she would campaign for France to leave the EU unless Brussels agreed to return full powers to control immigration and economic policy to member states.


The presidential candidate has promised if elected in May to dump the euro and organise a Brexit-style referendum on France's membership in the European Union.

But recently she has appeared to soften her stance, saying a "common currency" could coexist with the national unit.

Addressing a gathering of foreign correspondents in Paris, the National Front (FN) leader insisted she had "not changed my mind."

If she won the vote on May 7, she would immediately begin negotiations with the EU on restoring "four fundamental types of sovereignty: territorial, economic, monetary and legislative".

The discussions, she said, would focus on her demands for the return of intra-EU borders, an end to the primacy of EU over national law, and the right for France to toss out the euro and adopt a policy of "economic patriotism".

“Brexit has not been a disaster,” Le Pen said at the meeting on Friday. “The economic signals are good.”

Six months later she would put the outcome to a "Frexit" in/out referendum.

"Either I will have secured the return of those four sovereignties and I will advise the French to remain in a new Europe of nations, or I will not and then I will advise them to leave the EU," she vowed.
 [i24news.tv]
7/1/17

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