Jordan Bardella is coming for Europe  – POLITICO

BRUSSELS — Jordan Bardella has a warning for Brussels: France’s far right is softening its line on NATO, but not on the European Union.

In an exclusive interview with POLITICO, the French presidential front-runner vowed to challenge the EU’s long-term budget, cut France’s contribution to Brussels and build alliances with nationalist governments to force a rethink of how the bloc works. 

“What the European Union stands for — what it was founded on — positive globalization, absolute market power, uncontrolled immigration, economic decline, and excessive regulations on the economy, businesses and European industry, all of this is profoundly outdated, all of this is profoundly old-fashioned, obsolete,” said Bardella, a member of the European Parliament and president of France’s far-right National Rally.