Tag: Fascism

Thinly disguised Marine Le Pen movie character arouses fury of Front National

Party vice-president condemns new film about the far right as ‘scandalous’ and ‘unacceptable’ ahead of French presidential election

A film about the rise of far-right populism has triggered outrage in France after its trailer appeared to showcase a character based on Marine Le Pen, the president of the Front National and a candidate in France’s 2017 presidential election.

Chez Nous (AKA This Is Our Land) stars Émilie Duquenne as a nurse who becomes a political success in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region after becoming involved with the Patriotic Bloc, a thinly disguised fictional version of the Front National. It is due for release in France on 22 February, two months before the first round of voting, and the trailer briefly features a character apparently modelled on Le Pen, played by veteran performer Catherine Jacob [ . . . ]

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Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr 

It’s Remembrance Sunday and Marine Le Pen has just appeared on the Andrew Marr show to hail a new world order.

The timing of the interview has opened the BBC to some criticism, with the National Front leader attacking NATO, discussing her father’s Holocaust comments, and waxing lyrical about Putin on a day the nation remember those who sacrificed themselves to secure our freedom.

In the interview, Le Pen said that Donald Trump’s win ought to be seen as ‘an additional stone in the building of a new world destined to replace the old one’ …

Read the Full Story: Marine Le Pen causes a stir on Marr | Coffee House

“Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. for its security”

The Belgian PM Charles Michel advocates a stronger European Union in the area of defence.

 

“It is no longer possible to rely just on the United States for our own security”, he told the VRT’s Sunday morning news show ‘De Zevende Dag’. Michel also called Donald Trump a “strange candidate”.

The upcoming American defence policies are triggering concerns among other NATO members. Will they have to contribute more? Trump repeatedly said that other members should do more than they are doing now. Michel understands the criticism. “In Europe, we haven’t seen enough investements in defence over the past decades. And it’s not just Belgium, in this respect. But the will is there to do more.”

 

Source: “Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. for its security” | News | Expatica Belgium