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French far-right won its first ever seats in the country's Senate
The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant legislative body in France, but Sunday's ballot underlined the unpopularity of the president and the continued rise of the anti-immigration, anti-Euro National Front. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnother crack in the EU facade
Sep 29th, 2014 - 08:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0Russia has been courting the European far right and now its pay-off time as these anti-European, pro-Putin nationalists start getting elected in some numbers.
Sep 29th, 2014 - 01:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Far-Right Fever for a Europe Tied to Russia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/world/europe/europes-far-right-looks-to-russia-as-a-guiding-force.html
Putin’s Far-Right Friends in Europe: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/world/europe/europes-far-right-looks-to-russia-as-a-guiding-force.html
American White Nationalists To Hold Conference With Russian And European Far Right: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/world/europe/europes-far-right-looks-to-russia-as-a-guiding-force.html
Love em, or hate them, in the latest poll France out of the rest was the only nation that wanted the brits out of the EU,
Sep 29th, 2014 - 06:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0So good news for us, and bad news for the EU.
Enough said.
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3. Depends if the question was placed to French europhiles or not. If most of France wants to be out of the EU why would they not wish it for any other EU country??
Sep 29th, 2014 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The poll only asked if they preferred the UK to stay in or out,
Sep 30th, 2014 - 12:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0no idea who they asked,
but polls are polls, and apparently can be manipulated..
but one things for sure, this far right party seems to be gaining ground,
what ever their policies are, some seem to like em..
The problem the EU has is that the UK disproportionately pays 15% of the EU budget, I am sure they would love to see the back of us and the feeling is mutual, but who is going to pay the shortfall when we are gone?
Sep 30th, 2014 - 11:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0My big concern is that the EU are going to end up practically offering the UK anything it wants to ensure that we don't leave.
DEMOCRACY AT WORK!! so they have TWO seats in the senate.THERE ARE 348 SEATS IN THE SENATE, SURELY Le Penn HAS A LONG WAY TO GO TO BE A POWER HOUSE IN FRANCE AND THE EU.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0TO ALL THOSE WHO THINK THE GREAT BRITAIN is going to pull out of the EU....KEEP ON DREAMING!!!!THE UK has always been a Nation that likes to be in the BOARD ROOMS OF EUROPE not KEPT OUTSIDE IT . IT HAS ALWAYS LIKED BEING THE CHAIRMAN AND IN CONTROL. OUTSIDE EUROPE IT WOULD ANOTHER NORWAY ... a nobody!!!...
@7 Sit back and watch the show, you are wrong in a big way, but don't bank on the UK being the first country to leave. I don't agree with Marine le Pen's policies, they are too right wing for me, but I would watch what happens in France over the next two years.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 01:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The EU is crumbling, the ideals of the EU parliament and their intent of an EU superstate is at odds with the what the people of the EU want who regard nation states as more important.
8.
Sep 30th, 2014 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“The EU is crumbling, the ideals of the EU parliament and their intent of an EU superstate is at odds with the what the people of the EU want who regard nation states as more important.”
Agreed
And its that basic reason the unmighty EU will fail,
Sep 30th, 2014 - 07:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0*10 during the reccession everybody was saying that the EU would collapse..but has it?? NO!! WHAT I SEE IS THAT MORE COUNTRIES WANT TO JOIN..
Oct 01st, 2014 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0INCLUDING ... THE UKRAINE
Calm down, señor.
Oct 01st, 2014 - 12:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You're getting too emotional.
When Catalonia gets its independence, do you think that they will stay in the EU?
;-)))))
11' very silly aint you,
Oct 01st, 2014 - 06:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0the main and only reason it has not collapsed is because it is being propped up by Germany , full stop,
the unelected president has his life long ambition to have a united states of Europe, full stop,
he was voted in, right over the head of Cameron, by France and Germany,
but it seems you know more than he does,
facts are my deluded friend,, he WILL get he united Europe or it will fail,
and this boyo will be a union without the British...
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