Francois Bayrou warns not to "make the National Rally the only subject" of the European campaign. Most of the speakers at the majority's first meeting on Saturday harshly attacked the RN.

“I think in a way it’s giving him a gift,” said François Bayrou, guest of BFMTV. ‘They all gave bad advice, the anti-Europeans,’ added the president of the MoDem. 'The essentials of what we experience and what we believe have been put at stake, was threatened and has been threatened every day for two years'