Writer Victor Mallet (right) and Marc López Plana (left), director and editor of Agenda Pública, converse in Paris. | Agenda Pública / Bruno Arbesu
"They have pretended they do not want to leave, claiming they are willing to stay, but only if the EU changes fundamentally." In a conversation with Marc López Plana, Editor and Director of 'Agenda Pública', the 'Financial Times' senior editor and former Paris Bureau Chief, Victor Mallet, warns that "there are two ways to leave: exiting the existing institution, or staying in an institution so transformed that the effect is the same." His diagnosis serves as a red alert for Brussels: the arrival of the RN at the Élysée would not only transform the Republic but would "mortally weaken" the European Union. Is Europe prepared for its central pillar to cease being liberal-democratic?