France's Le Pen Wants France, Greece, Spain to Ditch Euro

Reuters/New York Times
March 20, 2011

The leader of France's far right National Front party wants France, Spain, Greece and Portugal to leave the euro because the common currency has not brought prosperity, she said in a newspaper interview on Sunday.

Buoyed by opinion polls that show her making big advances ahead of next year's presidential election in France, Marine Le Pen said she represents a party of patriots who never surrendered to the European Union or the euro.

"They promised us this currency would bring growth and welfare, and what happened? People were destroyed, we are talking about a real tragedy. Look what happened to Greece," Marine Le Pen told Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper.

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