“They are Putin’s accomplices”: two ministers warn against populism a few months before the European elections

The European elections are getting closer (illustration photo). MAXPPP – Marlene Awaad

Six months before the European elections, Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, and Laurence Boone, Secretary of State for European Affairs, denounce the nationalists and populists, "accomplices direct from Putin.

In a column published Saturday on the website of Ouest-France, and at a time when rumors are swirling of a reshuffle of Elisabeth Borne's government, the two leaders look back on their work over the last 18 months aimed at passing "the' ;#39;Europe in adulthood, that of sovereign Europe.

The RN leads in the polls

This phase coincides "with a much more brutal world and a much more worrying context, with the return of the threat against Europe", she continues, denouncing the "horrible war" led by Russia in Ukraine and also "in an insidious and indirect manner, against a European Union that it seeks to weaken through disinformation, blackmail for the supply of energy or even destabilization in Africa".

"All the nationalists and populists who dream of undoing what Europeans have built over the last seventy years are basically serving the same project of undermining the European Union, and therefore weakening its member states. They are Putin's direct accomplices, she adds.

Six months before the European elections on June 9, opinion polls currently give a lead of around ten points to the National Rally led by Jordan Bardella on Emmanuel Macron's camp, who has not yet designated his head of list