Presidential candidate Mélenchon ready to push for EU Treaty reform

Jean-Luc Mélenchon, presidential candidate of radical left party La France Insoumise, hopes to push member countries to break away from EU treaties “that block us” if he wins the election in April.

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Compared to his run in the 2017 presidential elections, this is a new, "less aggressive" approach, according to Mélenchon himself. In 2017, he defended a pure and hard exit from the European treaties in case the negotiations for reform would have failed. [Esther Snippe/EURACTIV/Shutterstock]

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Mathieu Pollet Euractiv France 19-01-2022 12:29 4 min. read Content type:

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This article is part of our special report French presidential election: Where does Europe fit into all this?.

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Updated: 29-09-2024

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