Several new far-right mayors remove EU flags from French town halls
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/03/30/several-new-far-right-mayors-remove-eu-flags-from-french-town-halls_6751955_7.html
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Several new far-right mayors remove EU flags from French town halls
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/france/article/2026/03/30/several-new-far-right-mayors-remove-eu-flags-from-french-town-halls_6751955_7.html
Posted by pierrepaul
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Traitors of Europe.
Isn’t that illegal?
Are they flying the Russian one instead?
Au moins cela permet de voir clair dans leur jeu… Quelle bande de ******
Although it’s pure populism, according to the article, they’re acting within the law.
Judging by what I read, they also took down a Ukrainian flag in one of the cities, which brings to mind recent events in Poland, where Ukrainian flags were also removed.
Note how Le Monde calls the Front being against immigration ‘anti-immigration’ and being against the European Union ‘eurosceptic’. Words matter and all that.
French minister Benjamin Haddad is of course correct that these showboaters will bend over backwards to get EU funds for their largely rural economic basketcases. It’s always the same story: their misfortunes are never their fault and they always “deserve” other people’s money.
Lame
Populist idiotic crap.
This is lowkey a problem with having hundreds of mayors.
Confederation flag next
The two parties that are monopolizing all the attention at the moment, RN and LFI, are both anti-European, in one way or another.
The far-right only know hate and division.
And that about all the “contribution” we can expect from them.
Lmao, I thought Trump was only the US. Europe has its own fair share
I guess we should withdraw the EU money too
So brave
How about we remove EU funds from them, and watch how fast those flags will appear back again.
Such pathetic frauds
Far-righters are far-righting, as expected from far-right morons.
When your citizens vote for the party backed by the Kremlin, you get the party backed by the Kremlin.
Smells like Russia
But I bet that they will not say not to EU money.
No matter what the country they are all the same.
EU Bad, EU’s Money Good.
Same was done in Hungary when FIDESZ won first in 2010. Buckle up Frenchmen, this is straight out of the Kremlin playbook.
This settles it, next viking raid I do in Crusader Kings 3, is going towards rural France. To quote the famous Swedish activist Greta Thunberg; “How dare they!?”.
These are the kind of people that told the UK that being outside of the European Union was better than being in it … they will chop off their own limbs.
Are the Russian flags up yet?
When your political program is held on a poor post-it, you need at least one thing noticeable.
Will they reject EU funds also?
Let’s not call them far-right, let’s call them what they are, pro-Russsian.
Weird because Bardella doesn’t say no to EU money 🤑
They probably didn’t check their own party stance on the EU, and who dropped the idea of exiting it.
In case you guys don’t know. You’re in danger. The far right authoritarians you see in the US are also in your countries.
Do they also refuse the EU funding they receive?