The news nowadays is awfully hard to handle. Tolerance and democracy are at risk in the United States, which poses a grave threat to Canada. The global population is revealing how little it is willing to compromise on basic precautions to protect the vulnerable from COVID and keep the pandemic as managed as possible. In addition, we’re basically doing everything wrong on climate change: allowing increased fossil fuel production in rich states with high per capita pollution and poor states alike, while a horrifying rate of deforestation makes an absolute mockery of our PR-driven efforts to lessen the problem by planting trees. Our political systems keep responding to stress with deepening pathology.
Based on the degree of empathy, prudence, and self-protection humanity is demonstrating, the future will be a horrifying place to live.
‘Frexit in all but name’: what a Marine Le Pen win would mean for EU | Marine Le Pen | The Guardian
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Her “sovereigntist, protectionist, nationalist” agenda would “totally contradict the French commitment to European integration” and includes “proposals which are in total breach of the treaties to which France has subscribed,” he said.
Key to Le Pen’s plans is an early referendum on a proposed law on “citizenship, identity and immigration” that would modify the constitution to allow a “national priority” for French citizens in employment, social security benefits and public housing – a measure incompatible with EU values and free movement rules.
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“It’s absurd,” said Jean-Louis Bourlanges, a centrist MP and president of the French parliament’s foreign affairs committee. “As soon as you affirm the primacy of national law, you have no European law. Marine Le Pen has rejected an official exit, but her programme is not compatible with continued French membership of the EU.”
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She also wants to dismantle French windfarms, a strike against France’s EU renewable energy targets.