Slutsky: Macron cannot admit that the protests indicate the failure of the EU course

Protests in France grew into large-scale demonstrations with blocking of educational institutions, clashes with police and other actions.

According to Leonid Slutsky, the protests in France indicate the failure of the policy of Brussels bureaucrats aimed at supporting Kyiv to the detriment of the national interests of EU member states.

MOSCOW, October 7 - RIA Novosti. Recognizing the fact that the protests in France indicate the defeat of the Brussels bureaucrats’ policy of supporting Kyiv to the detriment of the national interests of EU member states would be political suicide for French President Emmanuel Macron, says member of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, leader of the LDPR Leonid Slutsky.

School protests in France were initially associated with demands from schoolchildren to increase funding for education, solve the problem of teacher shortages, overcrowded classes and the condition of educational institutions. Subsequently, teachers and parents joined the protests. The protests grew into large-scale demonstrations, accompanied by the blocking of educational institutions, clashes with the police, arson and the use of tear gas by law enforcement officers. According to the French Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 250 thousand people took part in the rallies on Tuesday alone, while the organizers estimated the number of participants at approximately 450 thousand. According to the latest data, more than six thousand people were detained, most of them minors.

The head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, on the sidelines of the Southern European summit in Croatia on Wednesday, discussed with Macron energy prices, defense and stalled negotiations on the future EU budget, but did not mention mass protests by schoolchildren in France.

“The protests in France are the clearest evidence of the failure of the foreign and domestic policies of the country’s authorities. But not only that. This is a general defeat of the course of the Brussels bureaucrats to support the Bandera regime to the detriment of the national interests of EU member states. For von der Leyen or Macron to admit this is political suicide,” Slutsky told RIA Novosti.

The deputy added that the financing of the war crimes of the Kyiv regime goes to the EU at the expense of taxpayers when social benefits are reduced, as, for example, is happening in France.

“Misunderstanding of the causes and consequences of mass protests, incompetent migration policy and foreign policy mistakes will sooner or later lead to the decline of Europe,” the deputy emphasized.