Putin paid a one-day
visit to Austria on June 5.
MOSCOW, June 6. /TASS/.
The leader of France’s National Rally party (former National Front), Marine Le
Pen, says she sees signs of what in her opinion is the beginning of Europe’s
liberation, citing as an example the soaring popularity of right-of-center
forces in several European countries and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s
meeting with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz during his visit to Vienna.
"The meeting of
Kurz, [Heinz-Christian] Strache (vice-chancellor, minister for civil service
and sport) and Putin and rapprochement between [Italy’s Interior Minister
Matteo] Salvini and [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban: the liberation of
Europe begins now," Le Pen tweeted on Wednesday.
Earlier, she appeared
on the air of the France Culture radio station to express the same opinion,
without mentioning any personalities, though.
"The world today
is making a choice different from that made over the past 30 years. It is going
to be a genuine peaceful and democratic revolution, a turn away from savage
globalization, universal free exchange and immigration. It will be a turn
towards protection," she stated. "Italy, Hungary, Austria - we are
witnesses to the beginning of the liberation of Europe!" In her opinion,
in Europe there should be no place for supra-national entities whose decisions
would outweigh those made by national governments.
Putin paid a one-day
visit to Austria on June 5. It was his first foreign trip following the presidential
inauguration ceremony on May 7. The visit was timed for the 50th anniversary of
the beginning of Soviet gas export to Austria, which in 1968 was the first
country in Western Europe to have concluded a gas contract with the Soviet
Union. Putin held talks with Austria’s Federal President Alexander Van der
Bellen and Federal Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, laid a wreath at the monument to
the Soviet liberator soldier in Schwarzenbergplatz, visited a forum of the
Russian-Austrian business council at Austria’s Chamber of the Economy and
opened an exhibition of paintings from the Hermitage Museum at Vienna’s Art
History Museum.
Source: ITAR-TASS
06-06-2018
