Marine lepen's policies would have led to a dismantling of the european union from within, says Ben spoot. She was very much engaged with really what voters were concerned about in their daily life,. But if you look at her programme, the number on issue was imigrat - she wanted automatic right of citizenship for those born in france. And i don't think any one should be under any illusions as to what sort of a france er that marine le pen would've been leading inside the eu. Do you support a rapid entry of ukrane into the eu? If so, please tweet us using the hashtag #souvenirlemonde
For the second part of our analysis of one of the most tense elections in Europe of recent years, we hear from Sophie Pedder, Paris bureau chief at The Economist and author of Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation. Sophie is joined by foreign-policy writer and Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, Ben Judah, for a discussion about where France is headed next on both the World stage and closer to home. Hosting the discussion is Rosamund Urwin, Media Editor for the Sunday Times.
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