Friday, January 13, 2017

Trump: Marine Le Pen and the European Far Right

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The nature of kingship in William Shakespeare’s play Macbeth follows the events that occur during Macbeth’s unlawful rise to the throne......The themes of greed, arrogance and excessive political ambition are still, very relevant to the world today. Shakespeare got it right - his story of Macbeth still applies to today's world....

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March 24, 2017....."France's Marine Le Pen urges end to Russia sanctions....France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has called for the lifting of EU sanctions on Russia, during a visit to Moscow.....The National Front (FN) leader called for closer French-Russian ties at a meeting in Russia's lower house of parliament, the Duma.......She told its speaker sanctions over Russia's annexation of Crimea were counterproductive, Interfax reported.......It is not clear whether she will meet President Vladimir Putin.......When Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014, the US and EU imposed travel bans and asset freezes on individuals and companies linked to Russia's ruling elite.......She vowed to push for the so-called "blacklists" of targeted invidivudals to be abolished.....Ms Le Pen also said that Russia and France should work together to save the world from globalism and Islamic fundamentalism, Interfax said"

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Marine Le Pen is a French politician who is the president of the National Front (FN), a national-conservative political party in France and one of its main political forces.

French far-right party leader Marine Le Pen said on Wednesday that her election as president next year would form a trio of world leaders with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin that "would be good for world peace."

France's Marine Le Pen seen in Trump Tower
12 January 2017

France's far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been seen visiting Trump Tower in New York. She declined to say whether she was there to see President-elect Donald Trump but the Trump team said there would be "no meetings".....Ms Le Pen is currently one of the top candidates for the first round of voting in April, opinion polls suggest......The National Front leader has called Mr Trump's election "an additional stone in the building of a new world".

Ms Le Pen was seen with three men in the cafe. Agence France-Presse identified one as her partner, Louis Aliot, the National Front's (FN) vice-president.....to Ms Le Pen's right in the photo is Guido "George" Lombardi.

Lombardi lives in Trump Tower, has links to a number of right-wing European parties and says he is an adviser to the Trump team, according to Politico.Reuters said the fourth man was Ms Le Pen's international affairs adviser, Ludovic De Danne.

Marine Le Pen is the daughter of ex-FN leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, a convicted racist. She has denounced her father's comments and has sought to distance herself from such toxic issues as Holocaust denial. She retains a hard line on immigration and has linked it to militant Islamism......Ms Le Pen opposes the European Union, open borders and globalisation......She also says jobs, welfare, housing, schools, or any area of public provision should go to French nationals before they go to "foreigners".....She is likely to fight former Prime Minister Francois Fillon and Socialist Prime Minister Manuel Valls for victory in the first round of voting in the presidential election which is then expected to go to a run-off.

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