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In the European Parliament, “the discourse on exit has not disappeared”
For Thierry Chopin, special advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, the National Rally must position itself in relation to other far-right parties within the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament. – (franceinfo)
For Thierry Chopin, special advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, the National Rally must position itself in relation to other far-right parties within the Identity and Democracy group in the European Parliament.
“In France, the far-right is in a strategy of normalization”, analyzes Thierry Chopin, special advisor to the Jacques Delors Institute, guest of the Franceinfo Talk, Wednesday February 21. According to several polls, the National Rally would emerge victorious on June 9 in the European elections in France and other far-right parties are well placed in Italy, the Netherlands and Germany.
Within the Identity and Democracy group, in which RN MEPs sit, “the exit speech [la sortie de l’Union européenne] has not completely disappeared.estimates Thierry Chopin, who takes the example of Geert Wilders’ PVV in the Netherlands and the AfD in Germany. “These two parties are following a strategy, undoubtedly boosted by the polls which promise them a substantial increase, and are returning to very classic anti-European themes.”
Normalization versus radicalization
“They are on a strategy of radicalization and rupture, not of normalization. Which shows that, explains the advisor of the Jacques Delors Institute, it is the fact that Geert Wilders or the AfD in Germany are promising a referendum on the exit [de l’Union européenne].”
“And the question that arises for the French is: where does the National Rally stand in relation to these two components?”
Thierry Chopin, special advisor to the Jacques Delors Instituteat franceinfo
If the campaigns are more focused on different European policies rather than on leaving the Union, Thierry Chopin believes that the normalization dynamic in which the far right is evolving in France is “much less” present in the European Parliament.
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