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2025-04-01 Europe

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Posted by The Walking Unvaxed 2025-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

#1 A dozen posts in support of this ruling incoming from EC.

Europe is no longer relevant. Whatever they devolve in to, its none of our concern.

Posted by Crusader 2025-04-01 00:14|| 2025-04-01 00:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Fury as court bans Marine Le Pen from presidential run and hits her with four-year jail term: Europe's hard-right condemns 'system... that throws aside any candidate who's too right-wing'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-01 00:52|| 2025-04-01 00:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Europe is no longer relevant.

They ARE trying to start WWIII via their Ukrainian/Baltic proxies - that's irrelevant?

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-01 02:34|| 2025-04-01 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Some things don't age well...

At this time Marine Le Pen demanded a lifelong ban for politicians who had embezzled funds. And her - then - Front National voted for the law.

The court found beyond any reasonable doubt that this was embezzlement, that the party knew - from their correspondence - that this was illegal and that Marine very much knew it was illegal. That's why the party set up fake contracts to make Europe pay for family members and bodyguards.

The law mandates a temporary ban. The court had the discretion to apply it immediately or not. It decided to do so immediately because Marine Le Pen still denies that what she did was illegal, and so the chances she would do it again were substantial.

If you think corruption is ok because a hard right wing party does it, that's your problem, not mine.

And all that talk about Europe being irrelevant is getting a bit boring. But whatever floats your boat.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-04-01 06:21|| 2025-04-01 06:21|| Front Page Top

#5 If you think corruption is ok because a hard right wing party does it, that's your problem, not mine.

My problem is that when they all do it and selectively decide who they're going to go after. Corruption is corruption regardless of color, race, or creed. Either the law is based upon principle or its just ritualistic exercise of power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-01 10:38|| 2025-04-01 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Trump compares himself to Marine Le Pen as he tears into France for barring her from politics: 'This is a big deal'

Posted by Skidmark 2025-04-01 12:16|| 2025-04-01 12:16|| Front Page Top

#7 The last time French Elites behaved like this, it ended with guillotine.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-01 12:35|| 2025-04-01 12:35|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm sure Europe is still quite relevant to Europeans. I just don't want to get caught up in any of their troubles...not like the USA did in the last century. If diversity means Arabs, I don't want American boys dying for it. If democracy becomes Zelensky's martial law, I don't consider it democracy. I hope the guillotine doesn't start working again but if it does, I would prefer to stay out of it. Let's just say I prefer California wine to French wine. Italian might be OK. James Bond morphed into Christopher Steele and I like Toyota better than Mercedes. Hell, I like Tesla better than Mercedes.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2025-04-01 12:45|| 2025-04-01 12:45|| Front Page Top

#9 If you think corruption is ok because a hard right wing party does it, that's your problem, not mine.

That’s why I asked yesterday whether this is something the main political parties do or do not do, if padding the bills is common political practic, even if not precisely in that way. If they all do it — and naturally they voted for the law as well — then I must object to selective prosecution if the main party politicians were not immediately prosecuted for it. If this action is unique to the Le Pen crowd, then they are indeed hoisted by their own petards, and need to learn the lesson.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-01 12:49|| 2025-04-01 12:49|| Front Page Top

#10 @tw
at this point, radical leftist and Jew hating Mélenchon's party France Unbowed is being investigated over misuse of funds (including his party's use of European Parliament funds). Maybe that's why he didn't look so happy yesterday.

Posted by European Conservative 2025-04-01 12:58|| 2025-04-01 12:58|| Front Page Top

#11 *happy sigh* I do love being given answers to my questions…

Thank you, European Conservative — that does answer whether the Le Pen situation is entirely unique.

I am suddenly reminded of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy, who apparently is sitting his fifth trial for corruption back when he was not yet forcibly retired. Le Monde link (in English)

Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-01 13:17|| 2025-04-01 13:17|| Front Page Top

#12 I keep hearing about WWIII, but what does that even mean? Russia is putting everything short of nukes into Ukraine. It literally cannot handle anything more. It also cannot keep this up indefinitely. So unless WWIII is synonymous with Russia lobbing nukes around then ... what, exactly?

Posted by Angstrom 2025-04-01 15:06|| 2025-04-01 15:06|| Front Page Top

#13 Off the "Third time ice cream!" pile...

'As Great Mother Russia's dormition
Grows nigh, thoughts of Polish partition
Might well fill her head
But the White and the Red's
Still not dead!"
Little Father: [Gone fishing.]

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-04-01 21:28|| 2025-04-01 21:28|| Front Page Top

#14 Mother plucking Ukraine? People stare.
"Use a pachyderm, Putin mon frere,
Ou peut-etre a goose!"
Good advice for the Rus
Should they try to get down from the bear.

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2025-04-01 21:37|| 2025-04-01 21:37|| Front Page Top

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