“The battle we are doing is not just for France, but for Europe,” said President Candidate, during a speech in the Bas-Rhin, affirming Marine Le Pen wanted to “go out” of the European Union.
Le Monde and AFP
Emmanuel Macron said, Tuesday, April 12, that Marine Le Pen wanted to “go out” of the European Union (EU) but that she dared “no longer say it”, which would entail, if she was elected president , “The return to nationalism” and “war” on the continent. “The battle we are doing is not just for France, but for Europe,” said the president candidate during a speech in Châtenois, in the Bas-Rhin, adding:
“Because the far-right project is a project where the exit of Europe is hiding. (…) Get out of this Europe of peace, which is a conquest of the last eight decades. With the greatest force , you’ll see me oppose this project because it’s the return to nationalism and the return of the war. “Never.”
During a Meeting in Strasbourg in the early evening, the candidate still insisted: “Europe which is ours is not an alliance of nations that want to make the war, it is a project of Respect that ended the dreams of empire that had always fractured us “.
“And the dreams of empire come back: it is the dream of Russia today, it is the dream of some others, it is the conflict of those who would like to make us believe that the solution For France, it’s getting out of Europe, because it would be to go fighting other Europeans. “
Emmanuel Macron has, moreover, heard “forcibly defending our European Court of Human Rights” and the European Convention on Human Rights it enforces, while M me Le Pen has repeatedly claimed to “get out of a number of articles from the Convention”. The extreme right candidate also wishes that the French courts are no longer related to the decisions of the Court. But for Mr. Macron, the Strasbourg Court, “this is what wears our values, because it allows every citizen in Europe to defend his rights, even when the State does not recognize them: C ‘ That’s why Russia wants to leave it. “
” She does the same thing we do today in Hungary “
A little earlier, in front of the press in Mulhouse, Emmanuel Macron had accused Marine Le Pen of “telling carabistouilles” on Europe. “She explains that she will not pay the club’s bill [the EU of the 27 Member States], that it will change the rules alone. (…) That means she wants to get out but that she n No longer say it. “He felt that the NR candidate could seek to” make alliance with Hungary and Poland “- two EU countries led by nationalist parties.
In an interview at the weekly point, Emmanuel Macron says he wants to “highlight” an “exit project of Europe, French division project, climate regression project “of the candidate. For his part, Marine Le Pen explained that she wanted neither exiting the EU nor the Schengen space, but that it wanted an amendment to the Constitution to include the superiority of constitutional law on European law.
Emmanuel Macron also attacked Marine Le Pen about his remarks on the “Daily” show. “When the extreme right starts to say” I choose journalists who come or do not come [to my gatherings, meetings, press conferences] “, she does – No, whistle, because kindness us characterizes – She does the same thing today in Hungary, that is, methodically, gradually, reduce, degrade “, launched Emmanuel Macron.
A reference to Marine Le Pen’s comments on “Daily” held today in a press conference, after refusing to accredit the reporters of the show at his election evening, Sunday, assuming to choose which journalists can the to follow. “What I mean is that today the French far straight is the party’s ally who is in power in Hungary and so what she wants to do is what we see in Hungary, and therefore we want to fight against, “said the president candidate.