| Series Title | European Voice |
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| Series Details | Vol.8, No.16, 25.4.02 |
| Publication Date | 25/04/2002 |
| Content Type | News |
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Date: 25/04/02 JEAN-Marie Le Pen has always made it clear that he is against the European Union - even though he happily sits as an MEP. He has summarised his beliefs in two phrases: 'France for the French' and 'Socially on the Left, financially on the Right, nationally for France'. He is the classic ageing 'anti' - against everything the EU and the political establishment stands for. 'The people who govern us are charlatans,' he says. 'I am a non-conformist.' His views on immigration are well known: he says it threatens 'the disappearance of civilisation'. He has called for all illegal immigrants to be expelled from France and preference given to French nationals in housing, jobs and welfare. Le Pen, a former coal miner, trawlerman and paratrooper who saw service in Vietnam and Algeria, believes his views on the EU are shared by many of his compatriots. He wants the European Commission disbanded and France to abandon the euro and return to the franc. He has called for the treaties of Maastricht, Schengen and Amsterdam to be torn up and for France to revoke the constitutional amendment allowing other Europeans to vote in its elections. He also wants to outlaw abortion, the return of the death penalty, and a quadrupling of French prison places to 200,000. |
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| Countries / Regions | France |
