Key facts
- Marine Le Pen launched her campaign for the European Parliament elections.
- Le Pen called for a united front against the European Union.
- Le Pen stated that French interests must come first.
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France's far-right National Rally party, has launched her campaign for the upcoming European Parliament elections. At the campaign launch event, Le Pen emphasized her party's platform of prioritizing French interests above all else. She called for a united front against what she described as the "ideological bloc" of the European Union, signaling a continued stance of skepticism towards deeper EU integration.