{"id":1452825,"date":"2026-10-14T16:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/le-pen-threatened-to-cut-off-funding-for-ukraine-if-she-wins-the-election\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T16:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T13:31:51","slug":"le-pen-threatened-to-cut-off-funding-for-ukraine-if-she-wins-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/le-pen-threatened-to-cut-off-funding-for-ukraine-if-she-wins-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Pen threatened to cut off funding for Ukraine if she wins the election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The leader of the French far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, announced her intention to reduce financial assistance to Ukraine if she wins the 2027 presidential election. She also opposed Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the European Union.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/45e8941a-9f4d-4186-baec-eef5be5ce495\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was reported by<\/a> the Financial Times following an interview with the politician.<\/p>\n<p> Le Pen has said that if elected president of France, she is ready for a serious confrontation with the European Union. In particular, she wants to cut the EU budget and limit the powers of European institutions.<\/p>\n<p> The politician also questioned France&#8217;s continued participation in financing aid to Ukraine through the European Union.<\/p>\n<p> This includes, in particular, the EU&#8217;s \u20ac90 billion loan program for Ukraine&#8217;s defense and budgetary needs. \u20ac45 billion is planned for 2027.<\/p>\n<p> According to Le Pen, France&#8217;s share in this program is about 18 billion euros. She considers such commitments excessive.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>\u201cFrance can no longer afford this,\u201d<\/strong> the politician said, explaining her position on further support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> Le Pen also promised to end bilateral financial assistance to Kyiv, leaving the possibility of separate operational support and training of the Ukrainian military.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, she opposes the European Commission&#8217;s proposed financing mechanism for Ukraine of up to 100 billion euros within the next seven-year EU budget.<\/p>\n<p> To counteract the budget agreement, the politician allows blocking half of France&#8217;s contribution to the European Union budget.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Le Pen against Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the EU<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Separately, the leader of the &#8220;National Union&#8221; confirmed her disagreement with Ukraine&#8217;s European integration.<\/p>\n<p> She called Ukraine&#8217;s possible accession to the EU &#8220;hara-kiri,&#8221; claiming that it would allegedly lead to a loss of sovereignty and significant economic losses for France.<\/p>\n<p> At the same time, Le Pen refrained from directly identifying Russia as the main threat to European security.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI can\u2019t look into Mr. Putin\u2019s head and I don\u2019t know Mr. Putin\u2019s plans,\u201d the politician said.<\/p>\n<p> As previously reported, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hliuksmann-ide-u-prezydenty-frantsii-shcho-vidomo-pro-yoho-stavlennia-do-ukrainy\/\">MEP Raphael Glucksmann won the French center-left primaries<\/a> and became their candidate for the 2027 presidential election. He won 66% of the vote in the first round. Unlike Marine Le Pen, Glucksmann consistently supports Ukraine and considers its protection important for the security of all of Europe.<\/p>\n<p> We also wrote that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/ultrapravyy-polityk-frantsii-zaklykav-ukrainu-platyty-za-dopomohu-yevropy\">the leader of the French &#8220;National Union&#8221; Jordan Bardelha proposed changing the conditions for providing European aid to Ukraine<\/a> . In particular, he advocated using funding for the purchase of European defense industry products.<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leader of the French far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, announced her intention to reduce financial assistance to Ukraine if she wins the 2027 presidential election. She also opposed Ukraine&#8217;s accession to the European Union. This was reported by the Financial Times following an interview with the politician. Le Pen has said that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1452802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872,76875],"class_list":["post-1452825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-other-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1452825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1452825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1452802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1452825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1452825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}