Macron's vision for Europe faces test in French EU elections http://bit.ly/2HKAuKU Angelique Chrisafis in Paris Campaign is being dominated by power struggle between far right and president’s centrist agenda In a restaurant in northern Paris with European flags pinned to the walls, the former French Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau warned female voters that the rise of the far right threatened their fundamental rights. “Marine Le Pen just met an Estonian interior minister who believes that childless women over 27 are a waste for society,” she said. Gasps of horror spread through the crowd. Abortion rights, she warned, could not yet be taken for granted in Europe: “Abortion is banned in Malta and restricted in Poland and the UK.” More gasps came in response to Northern Ireland’s laws. Continue reading... https://ift.tt/eA8V8J May 24, 2019 at 10:53AM

Campaign is being dominated by power struggle between far right and president’s centrist agenda

In a restaurant in northern Paris with European flags pinned to the walls, the former French Europe minister Nathalie Loiseau warned female voters that the rise of the far right threatened their fundamental rights.

“Marine Le Pen just met an Estonian interior minister who believes that childless women over 27 are a waste for society,” she said. Gasps of horror spread through the crowd. Abortion rights, she warned, could not yet be taken for granted in Europe: “Abortion is banned in Malta and restricted in Poland and the UK.” More gasps came in response to Northern Ireland’s laws.

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