Eddy Fougier – Berlin Policy Journal – Blog https://berlinpolicyjournal.com A bimonthly magazine on international affairs, edited in Germany's capital Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:25:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.7 Words Don’t Come Easy: “France souveraine” https://berlinpolicyjournal.com/words-dont-come-easy-france-souveraine/ Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:10:54 +0000 http://berlinpolicyjournal.com/?p=2117 As the European Union shows signs of fraying at the edges, some in France are questioning its core.

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Illustration: Dominik Herrmann

France must first of all demand back its freedom. Its freedom as a state, freedom as a nation. A free France is a sovereign and independent France!” – “Sovereignty also means the acknowledgement of a sovereign, above which nothing and no-one stands. In France the sovereign is the people!”

Charles de Gaulle? One might think so. But no, this was Marine Le Pen speaking at the 2013 summer university of the Front National.

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