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Charles de Gaulle once said: “Europe is France and Germany. Everything else is just the garnishes.” …

While France rocked the Continent with a triumph for Marine Le Pen and her anti-EU National Front, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right pro-EU governing coalition emerged with a majestic 35.5 per cent of the vote, untouched by the euroskeptic forces sweeping France, Britain, Denmark, Greece and Italy. …

Meanwhile in France, the new top politician Marine Le Pen was happy to stir up her old nationalist spirits, demanding after her victory that “France must be run by the French, for the French and with the French” and not by “foreign commissioners.” …

But euroskepticism is not all right-wing. Indeed, one could say that this election’s surge against the EU came from the suffering unemployed, overtaxed and indebt workers, traditional socialist supporters, who have born the worst of the eurozone crisis and now are voting in rage.

British commentator Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has characterized this election as “a verdict on debt servitude.” In Greece, this meant a lurch to the far left, with the Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras topping the poll. … As the election results were announced, he said his party’s victory robs the government of any “political or moral legitimacy” to continue with the painful economic and fiscal policies.

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