{"id":14798,"date":"2026-04-27T16:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/frances-bardella-vows-showdown-over-german-influence-in-the-eu-politico\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T16:24:13","slug":"frances-bardella-vows-showdown-over-german-influence-in-the-eu-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/frances-bardella-vows-showdown-over-german-influence-in-the-eu-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"France\u2019s Bardella vows showdown over German influence in the EU \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The last three French presidents, on the left and right \u2014 Nicolas Sarkozy, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and Macron \u2014 chose Germany for their first official trips as heads of state, cementing the post-war French-German friendship born out of the 1963 \u00c9lys\u00e9e Treaty. <\/p>\n<p>A Bardella presidency would mark a clear break from that tradition from day one.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old nationalist has at times taken a softer approach to the EU than his party\u2019s previous candidate, Marine Le Pen, who, until 2017, advocated for France to leave the European Union. Bardella <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LCI\/status\/2001383081765142764\" target=\"_blank\">said in December<\/a> that he does not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-bardella-brussels-eu-showdown-priority-french-presidential-election\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last three French presidents, on the left and right \u2014 Nicolas Sarkozy, Fran\u00e7ois Hollande and Macron \u2014 chose Germany for their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-politique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}