France could be next to leave EU in secret ‘Frexit’ plan if Le Pen wins, warns Macron

LBC — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 17:54:36 +0000

Presidential candidate Marine Le Pen wants to make France the next country to leave the EU in a secret plan, according to French president Emmanuel Macron.

The French president made the claims as he faces a harder-than-expected fight to stay in power against Ms. Le Pen, in part because the economic impact of the war is hitting poor households the hardest.

When asked about his political rival’s beliefs on the EU, he said: “She wants to leave but dare not dare say so, and that’s never good.

“She says that she wants an alliance of nation states, but she is going to find herself in a corner and she is going to try to come up with an alliance with her friends.”

Mr. Macron, a pro-EU centrist, said voters wouldn’t allow a “Frexit” to happen, so Le Pen would secretly ally France with countries like Poland and Hungary.

“It would be a strange club,” said Mr. Macron. “I don’t think it is a club that would be good for France. I don’t think it would be good for Europe.”

He added: “The EU has changed the life of this country.”

Mr. Macron famously said he considered Brexit to be a “crime” by the politicians that encouraged it.

Meanwhile, Ms. Le Pen, an outspoken nationalist who has ties to Russia, also confirmed that if she wins in the presidential run-off, she will pull France out of NATO’s military command and dial back French support for the European Union.

France’s European partners are worried that a possible Le Pen presidency could undermine western unity as the US and Europe seek to support Ukraine and end Russia’s war on its neighbour.

In reference to the presidential election, Mr. Macron declared that it’s “a referendum on Europe.”

Earlier in his term, Mr. Macron had tried to reach out to Russian President Vladimir Putin to improve Russia’s relations with the West, and the pair met weeks before the Russian invasion in an unsuccessful effort to prevent it.

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Since then, however, France has supported EU sanctions against Moscow and has offered sustained support to Ukraine. Ms. Le Pen also said France should strike a more independent path from the US-led NATO military alliance.

And despite the atrocities that Russian troops have committed in Ukraine, Ms. Le Pen said that NATO should seek a “strategic rapprochement” with Russia once the war is over.

Such a relationship would be “in the interest of France and Europe and I think even of the United States,” she said, to stop Russia from forging a stronger alliance with world power China.

Ms. Le Pen said she would rather soften EU regulations from within as opposed to leave the institution outright, but would not rule it out altogether if the French public wanted to leave.

Source: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/france-could-be-next-to-leave-eu-in-secret-frexit-plan/

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Leaked German military doc predicts EU collapse & rise of pro-Russian ‘Eastern bloc’ by 2040

RT — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 09:44:41 +0000

The German military has outlined six “worst-case” scenarios for the future of Europe by 2040. The leaked secret document predicts that more states will leave a disordered, chaotic and conflict-prone EU – to join a Russian-led “Eastern bloc.”

A secret Defense Ministry paper leaked to Spiegel magazine has shed light on Berlin’s main concerns about the breakup of the European community, a scenario apparently feared in most Western capitals. Entitled ‘Strategic Perspective 2040’ (Strategische Vorausschau 2040), the 102-page policy paper imagines six scenarios that strategists in Berlin deem plausible.

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They range from an East-West conflict in which some EU states side with Russia, to a “multipolar Europe,” where some states adopt a Russian political or economic model in defiance of EU agreements.

One such scenario, titled ‘The EU in Disintegration and Germany in Reactive Position,’ sees a world suffering from “decades of instability.” It also describes the departure of other states from the EU as well as Britain, and an end to the bloc’s expansion, stating: “The EU enlargement has largely been abandoned, [while] more states have left the European community that lost its global competitiveness.”

“An increasingly disordered, sometimes chaotic and conflict-prone world has dramatically changed the security environment of Germany and Europe,” the military strategists write. Another scenario, dubbed ‘West against East,’ envisages the demise of European integration due to the transition by some EU countries to an “Eastern bloc,” an apparent allusion to the group of Moscow-allied states during Soviet times.

A scenario called ‘Multipolar competition’ predicts extremism on the rise in Europe as some EU members appear to move closer to Russia’s “state capitalism model.” All scenarios, drawn by the German military’s Planning Department, are viewed as conceivable by 2040.

Europe’s integrity has been pushed to its limits since 2016, when the UK opted to leave the EU during a nationwide referendum. Britain, one of Europe’s financial hubs, is set to depart the bloc in 2019. The simmering Brexit talks are currently focused on the cost of the departure as well as the status of UK citizens living elsewhere in the EU and vice versa. Far-right parties in France, the Netherlands and Austria have in the past called for ‘Frexit,’ ‘Nexit’ and ‘Oexit’ votes respectively.

Germany, the EU’s economic powerhouse, has a long tradition of in-depth strategic planning for every eventuality in the continent. It all began with the decorated Prussian field marshal Helmuth von Moltke in the 1850s, and was applied in at least three major conflicts, namely in 1871 during the war against France, as well as during World War I and World War II.

Source: https://www.rt.com/news/409085-germany-leak-predicts-eu-collapse/

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