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Elections in France: Macron against Le Pen and two visions for France

Marin Le Pen it has strayed far from its original plan to leave the EU, although Macron’s camp believes this is its final plan. “No one is against Europe,” she said after the first round. Yet in 2012, she was in favor of France’s withdrawal from the EU, a position that was then rejected in 2017, when she said she wanted to leave the euro instead. “Now she says she wants to stay within the European Union, but change it from within to achieve a Europe of sovereign nations,” said Sylvie Kaufmann of the French newspaper Le Monde.