Is Marine Le Pen Losing The Plot?

Le Pen's attempt to turn France's domestic fragmentation into its neighbor's problem even before the vote could smother the national-conservative turn in the EU in the bud.

Thomas Kolbe | October 19, 2026

Half a year before the French presidential election, Marine Le Pen threatens Germany with a fiscal campaign. Le Pen's attempt to turn France's domestic fragmentation into its neighbor's problem even before the vote could smother the national-conservative turn in the EU in the bud.

They once formulated great goals, the representatives of the rising political right in the EU. They envision a common protection of the external borders, a kind of Fortress Europe, to meet the growing migration pressure late, but still effectively. The realization: you cannot leave states like Spain or Greece alone with the mess made by the globalists. Spain's Ceuta was probably the most striking spectacle in recent times of the failure of placebo institutions like Frontex and of Europe's hot-air politics on external border protection.

Europe's right, from the Rassemblement National led by Marine Le Pen, through Giorgia Meloni's Fratelli d'Italia, all the way to Germany's AfD, is united by the desire for internal and external security in common, for a return to national sovereignty and the responsibility of politics for itself. And, as they all always declared: an end to Brussels' great climate crusade, to the destructive Green Deal.

Marine Le Pen, France's most promising candidate for the presidency, built her campaign on these core........

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