Marine Le Pen questioned the legitimacy of EU commissioners to consider sharing French nuclear deterrence, The Brussels Times reported.
Marine Le Pen, president of the National Rally party in the French National Assembly and runner-up to Macron in the 2022 presidential election, declared that the right to possess nuclear power derived directly from the election of the French president through universal adult voting right, adding that “sharing deterrence is abolishing it.”
Distrust would naturally fall upon a European commissioner.
On April 26, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed including nuclear weapons in discussions on the development of a European defence system. Critics immediately accused him of selling out national sovereignty.
Le Pen argued that deterrence was based on certain parameters incompatible with any supranational collegiality.
Who will set the utilisation criteria? Who will decide the course of action? on whether the response will be conventional or nuclear?
The decision to share the nuclear deterrent that only France possessed in the EU after Brexit would undermine French democracy, Le Pen claimed. Under French law, superior weapons can only be used if France’s vital interests are threatened.
