“Europe can emerge from history”, warns François-Xavier Bellamy
Guest of France Inter Monday morning, the head of the Republican list estimated that the upcoming European elections “are decisive”because “they are experienced in the context of the return of history”.
“For a long time, Europe believed in the end of history”he regretted, evoking in particular “the return of war to the European continent”, “the threat of Islamist terrorism which remains strong” or “the American isolationist movement which seems clearly engaged”. For Mr. Bellamy, “Europe can escape history”. “We are witnessing a double decline, of Europe in relation to the rest of the world, and of France in relation to the rest of Europe”added MEP LR, who believes that “we are no longer capable of deciding what our future will be”.
Four days after the debate between Gabriel Attal and Jordan Bardella, and while Emmanuel Macron wants a face-to-face meeting with Marine Le Pen before the vote, the head of the LR list criticized the fact that the campaign in France is turning around this duel between the presidential camp and the National Rally.
He recalled that the European Parliament is ” structure “ around two political groups: “On the one hand the European right, which will in all probability emerge very strengthened from this election, the one to which we belong with The Republicans. And on the other side the social democratic left, which is the second major pillar. » “The big question is in which direction are we going to take Europe today? In Europe, it’s like in France, there is left-wing politics, there is right-wing politics”he added.
But if Mr. Bellamy and the LR MEPs will sit within the European People’s Party (EPP) in Parliament, they pose as opposition to the outgoing president of the European Commission and head of the list of the European right, Ursula von der Leyen. “With Les Républicains, we want an alternation at the head of the European Commission. We will not give back, we will not give our trust in Ursula von der Leyen”he confirmed, opposing texts adopted during the last legislature, such as the European Green Deal or the “Farm to Fark” plan.