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?
It is much better than the far right though, and the reason is in the context which you swiftly omitted. They don’t want to exit the Union but to headbutt agressively against the far right anti-immigration packages that are being forced down our throats, as well as the industry deregulation push that would force us to reverse social protection and ecological regulations we, as a people, have voted for.
FI is indeed not ready to apply in France any European law that gives the workers fewer rights, or sabotages our ecosystems (“principe de non-régression écologique et sociale”), or makes us a part of bullying the global South. Please show me where those objectives are in MLP’s platform cause i have a hard time finding them.
It doesn’t sound all that stupid when you take the context into account (which FI knows well as we have a bunch of deputies in Bruxelles).
Firstly, as usual LFI’s vision pretty much stops at the French border. They claim it’s a viable and good idea to create a constitutional principle of non-regression, but they only propose adding it to the French Constitution, not to a European treaty.
Secondly, it doesn’t really matter why they want to end the primacy of European law. If the precedent is set, it will almost certainly end up being used for things they don’t want, in France and in other member states. It’s also likely to result in a diplomatic crisis and possibly to the breakup of the EU.
The far right also has MEPs, it doesn’t make them knowledgeable either.