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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe French far-right's first priority: eliminating freedom of movement within Europe
Q&A: Marine Le Pen on France and IslamFrench President Francois Hollande has held a national security meeting in Paris after the deaths of 17 people in the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
Al Jazeera spoke to Marine Le Pen, the far-right French politician and president of the National Front, about how her party views the issue of security in France.
Al Jazeera: There was a security meeting here in Paris. In your opinion what should the French government be doing now to ensure French people they are safe.
Le Pen: The first priority is the immediate removal of Schengen [visa-free regime], because you can't have security and control in a country without having any powers over our borders. It's impossible to stop illegal arms trade.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/europe/2015/01/qa-marine-le-pen-france-islam-2015113123524709520.html
The Schengen Agreement is the 30 year old agreement which enshrined freedom of movement throughout Europe. Conservatives here complain about 'open-borders liberals' though there is not much actual evidence of such creatures. This lament from Le Pen shows that the far-right in Europe has the same complaint about liberals.
Schengen is now a core part of EU law and all EU member states who have not already joined the Schengen Area are legally obliged to do so when technical requirements have been met. Several non-EU countries are also included in the area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Agreement
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The French far-right's first priority: eliminating freedom of movement within Europe (Original Post)
pampango
Jan 2015
OP
"..you can't have security and control in a country without having any powers.."
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2015
#1
Not surprising that the right focuses on security and control, less on individual rights, is it?
pampango
Jan 2015
#2
They're best weapon, and the road to power, is fear. They fill the world with bogeymen
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2015
#3
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)1. "..you can't have security and control in a country without having any powers.."
Security, control, powers. How very Orwellian.
To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well. Albert Camus
pampango
(24,692 posts)2. Not surprising that the right focuses on security and control, less on individual rights, is it?
Some things about the right never change no matter where you are in the world.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)3. They're best weapon, and the road to power, is fear. They fill the world with bogeymen
and promise to protect us from them.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)4. France’s Le Pen Says Torture Can Be ‘Useful’ to Fight Terrorism
The leader of Frances anti-immigrant, anti-European Union National Front, Marine Le Pen, said that torture can be sometimes useful to fight terrorism, in response the U.S. Senate report on the CIA.
There can be cases -- when there is a bomb ticking, that can explode in an hour or two and kill 200 or 300 civilians -- where it can be useful to have to make someone talk with the means available, Le Pen told RMC radio and BFM Television today.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-10/france-s-le-pen-says-torture-can-be-useful-to-fight-terrorism.html