EU Takes Centre Stage in ’Chaotic’ French Presidential Debate
Nick Hallett
Front National leader Marine Le Pen was able to paint herself as a moderate against the words of her smaller rivals, telling François Asselineau, president of the obscure Popular Republican Union, her position was “less brutal” than his policy of unilaterally withdrawing from the EU.
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