Frexit

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Frexit poster in Paris (2018)

Frexit is a short term for a discussion about a hypothetical exit of France from the European Union (EU) or the euro zone . The word formation Frexit is the term United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum for withdrawal from the EU of the United Kingdom modeled: it is a portmanteau of "Fr" (for "France" or French "France") and "exit" (English for exit). It is about the political demand of some political fringe parties, but the term has never entered common parlance despite its occasional use in the media.

Polls and political positions

According to polls from the Pew Research Center in June 2016 - just before the UK's 2016 EU membership referendum - 61 percent of French people saw the EU as unfavorable. Within the evaluated EU countries, this was the second worst result after the Greeks with 71 percent for “EU unfavorable”. In a survey carried out by Taylor Nelson Sofres in June 2016 on the direct question of whether to remain or to leave, 45 percent of the French wanted to stay and 33 percent wanted to leave the EU.

In the French presidential elections in 2017 , therefore, several candidates with explicitly anti-European positions stood: Marine Le Pen , the chairwoman of the Front National , announced that, if she wins, she will use an exit referendum for France to leave the EU will. Have also to Jean-Luc Mélenchon , chairman of the Parti de Gauche , and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan , chairman of France Arise , and François Asselineau , president of the Popular Republican Union (UPR), in favor of the outlet or for a referendum if Renegotiations of the EU treaties would fail.

Surveys shortly before the elections showed a rather positive attitude towards the EU, with a two-thirds majority clearly against leaving the euro. The clear election victory of Emmanuel Macron in May 2017, who had openly represented pro-EU positions in the election campaign, and the poor performance of Le Pen and the various anti-European small candidates was then also a clear vote for the anchoring of France in the EU seen. Le Pen then weakened its stance and has not openly demanded an exit from the euro zone since then.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kate Lyons, Gordon Darroch: Frexit, Nexit or Oexit? Who will be next to leave the EU. In: The Guardian. June 27, 2016, accessed January 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Euroscepticism on rise in Europe, poll suggests. BBC News, June 6, 2016, accessed January 29, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Sondage: les Français ne veulent pas quitter l'Europe. lefigaro.fr, June 29, 2016, accessed January 29, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ Le Pen wants a referendum on Frexit . In: Coburger Tageblatt . February 6, 2017. Available online as: Le Pen starts campaigning with attacks on the EU. In: infranken.de. February 5, 2017. Retrieved February 6, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Arnaud Focraud: Le Pen, Mélenchon, Dupont-Aignan ... A chaque eurosceptique son "Frexit". In: Le Journal du Dimanche . June 21, 2016, accessed January 29, 2017 (French).
  6. ↑ Le Figaro: Sondage: les Français hostiles à une sortie de l'euro , March 25, 2017 (French).