Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orban sign a joint declaration for a "reform of Europe"
Marine Le Pen finally displays her signature alongside Prime Minister Viktor Orban: family, tradition, respect for Judeo-Christian culture and heritage, need to respect nations, the document calls for a deep reform of Europe without advance on the bottom.
"The first stone" of a great alliance in the European Parliament aiming to reform Europe believes the president of the RN.
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Marine Le Pen and around fifteen allies from far-right or conservative European parties, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, issued a “
joint declaration
” on Friday that
they hope will be the first step towards a “
great alliance
” in Parliament .
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She had dreamed of it for years, Marine Le Pen finally displays her signature alongside Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
A meeting would even be on the rails.
Family, tradition, respect for Judeo-Christian culture and heritage, the need to respect nations ... The document calls for a profound reform of Europe without going into substance.
The president of the National Rally (RN) wants to believe that this is the "
first stone
" of a great alliance in the European Parliament aimed at reforming Europe.
Because Marine Le Pen, Viktor Orban but also the Italians Matteo Salvini and Giorgia Meloni or the Polish Jaroslaw Kaczynski do not work in the same group in the European Parliament.
For a long time the FN, today the RN, was considered too pro-Russian for Polish or Hungarian nationalists.
📹 The gathering of European patriots is launched: with the most influential patriot parties on the continent, we are laying the foundation stone for a great alliance in the European Parliament.
✍🏻 Our joint statement: https://t.co/stCBQhqxPb pic.twitter.com/GeoLZBo0m3
- Marine Le Pen (@MLP_officiel) July 2, 2021
But then, how to explain that the discussions advance today?
The divorce between the European right-wing party, the EPP, and the Hungarian Prime Minister has a lot to do with it.
Viktor Orban is now looking for new partners.
"
The sign that we are no longer plague victims and that we have become frequentable
", welcomes MEP Thierry Mariani.
A first step which could materialize by the creation of a mega-group in January 2022, hopes the MEP Jérôme Rivière, while Emmanuel Macron will take the presidency of the European Union.
A symbol that falls very well for a
Marine Le Pen who faces his troops this weekend
, weakened after the failure of the regional.
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To read: Marine Le Pen facing his party: the beginning of a sling?
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