The far-right RN is expected to top the EU election with 23.5 percent of the ...

While the French right has turned the upcoming parliamentary election into an anti-Macron referendum, the centrist has framed it as a battle to save the bloc from anti-EU nationalists. Mr Macron said in a joint interview published in several regional newspapers on Tuesday: “I cannot be a spectator, but a key player in this European election, which is without doubt the most important since 1979 because the Union is facing an existential risk.” As head of state, he continued: “It is my responsibility to stop nationalists from breaking Europe apart.

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“I am seeing for the first time the existence of a connivance between nationalists and foreign interests, whose sole objective is to dismantle Europe. 

“Far-right lobbyists like former White House strategist Steve Bannon, close to the US government, are saying so.” 

“And the Russians have never been as intrusive as they are now, helping to boost and finance extremist parties.” 

His comments were a scarcely veiled reference to claims far-right chief Marine Le Pen is the “Trojan horse” of eurosceptic forces in the US and Russia, and has benefited from their support. 

Calling himself a “French patriot and therefore a European,” Mr Macron urged people to head to the polls, saying that “deciding not to vote means giving your voice to those who want to destroy Europe”. 

The European project defended by Mrs Le Pen’s Rassemblement national (RN), will “weaken France and divide Europe,” he continued. 

The RN, formerly known as the Front National, is currently the biggest French party in the EU parliament.

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