“The British got rid of the Brussels bureaucracy, which they never endured, to move on to an ambitious idea of a global Britain,” she told Brighton. “This is not our job. “We want to reform the EU from within,” he said. “But the more we free ourselves from the narrow jacket of Brussels by staying within the EU, the more we will turn to the wider world. It seems to me that the English have understood this well. “ Ms Le Pen also pledged to reduce France’s contribution to the EU budget by € 5 billion (4 4.2 billion) a year. It is currently around 22-25 billion euros, which raises the country’s net contribution “between 8-9 billion euros”. “I would not stop paying France’s contribution to the EU, I want to reduce it,” he said. “The EU can also save on operating costs.” Her promise came a day after Macron, her pro-European rival, argued that her election would lead to a secret Frexit and that the election was a “referendum for Europe”.
