{"id":1179613,"date":"2026-08-31T21:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1179613\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T21:46:21","slug":"le-pen-celebrates-icelands-referendum-results-reiterating-her-anti-eu-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1179613\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen celebrates Iceland&#8217;s referendum results, reiterating her anti-EU views"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Far-right media in France and elsewhere are trying to promote a new image of the National Rally\u2019s leader and candidate for the 2027 presidential election. Her propaganda machine suggests that <strong>Marine Le Pen<\/strong> is no longer anti-European and avoids any reference to her Russophilia. However, Marine Le Pen\u2019s hatred of Europe, support and admiration for <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> and occasionally for <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> have never changed.<\/p>\n<p>Celebrating the results of the referendum in Iceland, where voters rejected the EU path for their country, the far-right candidate highlighted in a post on X that \u201cthe Icelandic people have recalled an obvious truth: membership in the European Union is not the natural horizon for every European democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vote delivers a crystal-clear message: peoples must be able to decide for themselves their future, their institutions, and their capacity to defend their national interests,\u201c Le Pen continued, reiterating an old position of the far-right parties in Europe. Europe, for them, shouldn\u2019t be a Union but a loose alliance of countries with their own currency, tariffs, and political systems. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when some are pushing for greater federalism and the transfer of sovereignty to the European Commission, this vote reminds us that another Europe is possible, an Europe of free, sovereign nations cooperating voluntarily on matters of common interest,\u201c the far-right candidate made clear how she imagines France under her presidency. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on X, <strong>Benjamin Haddad<\/strong>, Minister Delegate for Europe, noted that \u201cthrough this message, Marine Le Pen clearly demonstrates that her real project has never changed: the rejection of the European Union and Frexit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Famous writer <strong>Jacques Attali<\/strong>, also on X, emphasised that Le Pen\u2019s message is \u201cExactly the message that Putin wanted to read. Unless he dictated it \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Far-right media in France and elsewhere are trying to promote a new image of the National Rally\u2019s leader&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1179614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[319679,6715,2000,299,5187,2557,1699,1105,36,290805,7059,319680,44,14882,9891,319681,31619,333],"class_list":["post-1179613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-anti-eu-views","tag-benjamin-haddad","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-commission","tag-european-union","tag-far-right","tag-france","tag-frexit","tag-iceland","tag-jacques-attali","tag-marine-le-pen","tag-national-rally","tag-referendum","tag-russophilia","tag-sovereignty","tag-vladimir-putin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1179613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1179613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1179613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1179613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}