EU Drops Barnier Plan – Xavier Bertrand Set to Squash Macron & Dilute Le Pen Support

• The Michael Barnier plan has fizzled out. Is this Plan C? To keep France in the EU and keep the train wreck of the EU moving along?
• Macron is toast. He cannot come back. His party won around 6.4% of the vote on a 30% turnout. He can only have got hundreds of thousands of votes, that’s all.
• Le Pen is down but not yet out. She got a solid 20% yet didn’t come near predictions. She didn’t win any French regions. (see the previous video – she has watered down her appeal) She must harden up her message. If so, some of the almost 70% abstention votes might go her way.
• The Socialists have seen no revival whatever. And the Michel Barnier strategy has bitten the dust.
• Xavier Bertrand might fill this gap. He was close to Sarkozy, a member of Les Republicains, the centre-right establishment party. The party appeals a lot to retired people, and has a soft Catholic base. He’s the coming hope. He’s expected to run against Macron or Le Pen for president. He’s loyal to the EU but not ultra-loyal. Perhaps it’s possible to package him as being more independent. He’s spoken out against Macron being against the Yellow Vests. He’s talked against Russian sanctions. But he remains a clear figure of the French establishment who won’t want to rock the boat. He’s reassuring, ‘stable’, the kind of person who will keep France loyal to the EU. There won’t be a euro exit or EU exit. He’s spoken against more integration in the EU, but he’s not likely to rock the boat in that sense.
• He could be the perfect candidate to nullify Le Pen. He can talk in a way that can steal some of her vote, but he’s no real challenge or threat to The Powers That Be.
• Barnier was too much of an insider in the EU establishment. He was too close to them.
• It’s not likely Bertrand will change French foreign policy in Syria or Lebanon.
• He won’t fix the French economy either, and has talked about reindustrializing France. But he won’t be the one to do it, which needs France to be taken out of the euro currency. He can be relied upon to keep things as they are. Both the French and EU establishment trust him.
• If France leaves the eurozone, then the eurozone will end. Yet France needs its own currency with a consequent depreciation. Then the French economy could grow and reforms could be made. Meanwhile, France is trapped inside EU monetary policies which only benefit the German export sector. All countries in the EU suffer from this.
• We’ve been here before. Sarkozy was going to do all sorts of reforms and reindustrialize France, but it all failed because he wouldn’t get France out of the euro. Only then will change happen. Everything else is just talk. And even Le Pen has forgotten this.
• The key point is, they don’t trust Le Pen but they do trust Bertrand. And France must NOT leave the euro, until it all falls apart, and one day it will.

They will do everything they can to prevent France becoming an independent country, and Bertrand will oblige.

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EU drops Barnier plan. Xavier Bertrand set to squash Macron & dilute Le Pen support

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