Paris (EFE).- The leaders of the European far-right parties have criticized the European Union for its “globalist” policies, which they claim are building an “empire against the nations.” According to them, if these policies are not corrected, they could even threaten the holding of free elections.
On Monday, the leaders of the European Patriots party meet in a t rally in the small town of Mormant sur Vernisson, around 130 kilometers (80 miles) south of Paris, to celebrate their strong presence in the 2024 European elections as they became the third-largest group in the European Parliament.
The EU is “an artificial construction that increasingly resembles an empire,” said Marine Le Pen in a speech to around 6,000 people, according to organizers.
“We do not want to leave Europe, but this Europe is not Europe. Europe is not the EU; Europe is us,” added the French politician, who spoke after Santiago Abascal, president of the Patriots and leader of Vox.
Le Pen complained that the European project has resulted in EU member countries having fewer competencies than the states that make up the United States and has led to the creation of a “centralized unitary state” and “an empire against the nations.”
“If we let them do it, there will be no free elections, only annullable ones,” she warned, before referring to her case and noting that “the main opponent, me, is being prevented from running.”
She was thus referring to the judicial sentence received in late March for embezzling public funds from the European Parliament, among other crimes. This disqualifies her from running in the 2027 presidential elections unless the trial on appeal, to be held in 2026, results in a turnaround.
Le Pen insisted that Europe does not need an empire but an alliance, and stated the EU is a “graveyard of unfulfilled promises,” such as reinforcing European sovereignty.
As usual in her speeches, she disqualified EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, which, according to her, takes away from European countries “the right to decide who enters and who leaves” their territory.
According to her, it is actually “a pact for the disappearance of Europe” and “submersion” because it favors the “massive” entry of migrants.
She also criticized the fact that, whereas the European project was born as “a project of peace,” it is now heading towards “a project of programmed war,” clearly alluding to his position on the conflict in Ukraine.
After emphasizing that the Patriots are the third largest political group in the European Parliament, behind the European People’s Party and the Socialists, the leader of the French far-right party insisted that her party looks forward to the future, not the past.
Abascal announced that the Patriots unanimously decided to appoint Marine Le Pen as honorary president at their last meeting, adding that “every day that es is one day less” before becoming president of the French Republic.
Despite the sanctions imposed by European institutions, which cost “one million euros a day” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán defended his government’s policies, stating that not accepting the entry of migrants was “the best investment for the future.”
Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Lega party and Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport said that “the threat to our children does not come from the tanks of the East (regarding Russia), but from the South,” about migratory pressure from Africa. EFE
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