Politics

Presidential Frontrunner Marine Le Pen Threatens to Take France Out of 'Dead' EU

The European Union is a failed project and if Brussels wants France to stay it need to give Paris a series of concessions, Front National leader Marine Le Pen told the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag.

"The European Union is dead, but it still hasn't realized that. It has failed on all fronts: economic (growth is very slow), social (poverty is rising and unemployment is too high) and security (the EU is not able to protect its borders, and can't protect us from Islamist terrorism)," Le Pen said.

"If an experiment fails so miserably, it is finished," she declared.

Le Pen, who is leading in opinion polls about France's upcoming presidential elections, said that if she is elected president, she will demand a range of concessions from Brussels in return for France staying in the bloc.