Le Pen attacks European Union
Updated on 13 April 2007
Extreme-right presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen has stepped up his criticism of the European Union and its symbols, calling the euro "the currency of occupation" in France.
The 78-year-old firebrand, campaigning in his fifth and likely last presidential election, complained that France "no longer is sovereign over our borders, no longer sovereign over our country".
"The currency of the nation is the franc," Le Pen said on RTL radio, referring to the currency France phased out along with 11 other EU countries on January 1, 2002.
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