The head of France’s conservative party Republicans called for an alliance with the far right in upcoming snap elections,

... breaking a longstanding taboo and throwing his party into deep turmoil as the shock waves from President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to dissolve the lower house of Parliament coursed through the country.

No leader of any mainstream French political party has ever previously embraced a possible alliance with Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, or its predecessor, the National Front. 

But across Europe, barriers to what was long regarded as the extreme nationalist right have been falling as those parties have adjusted their positions and as a broader consensus has formed that large-scale illegal immigration across a porous European Union border must be curbed.

New York Times 11 June 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/11/world/europe/france-conservatives-far-right-alliance.html

 

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