
France’s Prime Minister Gabriel Attal and far-right Rassemblement National (RN) lead candidate Jordan Bardella engaged in an unprecedented TV debate on Thursday, hoping to sway voters just days before the European elections.
“You are bound by a moral contract with [Russia],” Attal told his far-right counterpart, raising alarm bells over the RN’s actual patriotism and national integrity.
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“Russia needed a party in Europe to weaken the EU from within”, the prime minister added, pointing out that the RN had benefited from Russian loans in 2014, for €9 million.
Even if these have been repaid, the French far-right is “not free of [its] votes…