By Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard
Marine Le Pen is spoiling for a fight. The leader of France's Front National
vows to smash the existing order of Europe and force the break-up of monetary
union, if she wins the next election.
"Europe is just a great bluff. One side there is the immense power of sovereign peoples, and on the other side are a few technocrats," she said.
It is no longer an implausible prospect. "We cannot be seduced," she said,
brimming with confidence after her party secured 46pc of the vote in a
by-election earthquake a week ago. Her candidate trounced the ruling Socialists
in their own bastion of Villeneuve-sur-Lot.
"The euro ceases to exist the moment that France leaves, and that is our
incredible strength. What are they going to do, send in tanks?" she told the
Daily Telegraph at the Front National's headquarters, an unmarked
building tucked away in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. Her office is small and
workaday, almost austere.
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