He called for a Europe 'free from the destructive principles of liberalism'
Saint-Denis, FRANCE – Jean-Luc Mélenchon had the EU in his sights as the French far-left leader kicked off his 2027 national presidential election campaign on Sunday.
“The European treaties are obsolete”, he told a crowd that filled the central square of Saint Denis, a highly-populated leftist stronghold north of Paris.
Mélenchon accused Europe of moral failure on migration and what he described as “complicity” with the Israeli government in a likely reference to the war on Gaza.
He said it is time for French voters to stop to the long negotiated free trade agreements reached by the EU with the Mercosur South American countries and India, as well as refusing “the war economy”.
