In trying to woo Le Pen’s voters, Les Républicains risk destroying France’s Gaullist legacy and putting Paris on a collision course with the EU, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre
We have a saying in France that was used in the 30s, when the Working Left united against conservatives: “Plutôt Hitler que le Front Populaire”. It means “Rather Hitler than the Working Left”, and we all know where it led us.
We have a saying in France that was used in the 30s, when the Working Left united against conservatives: “Plutôt Hitler que le Front Populaire”. It means “Rather Hitler than the Working Left”, and we all know where it led us.
It’s like we didn’t learn.