Removing EU Flags Is ‘Betrayal,’ French Minister Tells Far-Right Mayors

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It's a deliberate provocation: In France, mayors from the National Rally are replacing the EU flags on their town halls with the French tricolor. They are receiving backing from the party leadership. By Carolin Dylla.

Zeit Online

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After the local elections, several RN mayors have abandoned the EU flags at their town halls. The government criticizes the action as "treason".

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

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Several new mayors of the right-wing extreme Rassemblement National are demonstrably catching up with the European star banner. It is questionable whether the election favors for 2027 change their course.

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Repercussions are spreading throughout French politics as newly elected mayors from the far-right National Rally, who caused a sensation in last month's local elections, are successively removing European Union (EU) flags from government buildings. Tensions are rising that if public sentiment against the established political class and European Parliament bureaucracy spreads within France—much like the Brexit crisis—movements toward withdrawal, …

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Indignation in France: Several new mayors of Le Pen's party bring EU flags from town halls and rely on national symbolism. The government speaks of "betrayal", critics warn of a creeping "frexit".

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The French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot condemned the gesture made by more primers after the winovers of the French municipal elections this month, by Eurosceptic and anti-immigrance formation of the National Meeting (NN), which placed the EU flag on the institutions to which they are administered. Barrot said, Tuesday that the gesture was made ...