Anti-Europe or anti-liberal Europe?

The French extreme right, from Franco-German collaboration during World War II up to the 1990s, supported concepts of European integration marked by the continuity of two lines of thinking: economic ideas and politico-cultural thinking. Intertwined and parallel at the outset, they ended up opposing each other. While intellectuals of the extreme right associated with the journal Défense de l’Occident first hailed European integration after 1945, as it was consonant with the ideas of collaboration, the Front National finally came to protest against the “real”, purely economic European Community from the 1990s on.