Fury among MEPs as French conservative leader opens to far right

Éric Ciotti's surprise move fuels fear that Europe's mainstream right is dismantling the firewall that has kept the far right in check. Centrist and left-leaning EU lawmakers have lashed out at the decision of the president of the French conservative The Republicans party, Éric Ciotti, to form an alliance with the far-right National Rally (RN) of Marine Le Pen ahead of snap legislative elections. Ciotti’s move, announced earlier on Tuesday, has been slated as a dismantling of the so-called sanitary …