Polls show Jean-Luc Mélenchon could reach the French presidential election’s second round next year.

Archived copy is here: https://archive.is/DqZ6m

The article says this:

“Immediately withdraw from NATO’s integrated command and then, in stages, from the organization itself. Reject the tribute demanded by the United States of 5% of GDP devoted to defense spending,” read France Unbowed’s 222-page program.

However, France under Mélenchon would still provide assistance to European Union countries under EU treaties, the document added

Is Melenchon right? Is it better for the EU to be the organisation of mutual defence guarantees for Europe, rather than NATO?

  • Changaco@jlai.luEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    I also chafe at the idea that EU law is comparable to a constitution.

    The EU treaties are de facto a federal constitution, even though consolidating them into a single document called the European Constitution failed (partly because of Mélenchon).

    We already have a constitution thank you very much.

    Constitutions can be stacked on top of each other, there doesn’t have to be only one.

    What FI is proposing here is more like when Blue cities in the US “opted out” of helping with ICE enforcement.

    No, it isn’t. What LFI is proposing would be like putting, in the Constitution of California or that of another state, a provision incompatible with the Constitution of the United States.