Marine Le Pen of France Meets With Vladimir Putin in Moscow<br />"You can’t be isolated when you’ve got both Putin and Trump on your side." Asked whether the Le Pen campaign was in touch with Trump officials,<br />Mr. Lacapelle would say only, "There are lots of things going on." In a fiercely nationalist speech to diplomats in Paris last month, Ms.<br />Le Pen spoke of wanting to "anchor" Russia to Europe, even as she heaped scorn on the European Union, which she<br />said was "facing contrariwise to the rest of the world." "Everywhere, globalization is in retreat," Ms.<br />By ADAM NOSSITERMARCH 24, 2017<br />PARIS — Marine Le Pen, the French far right’s presidential candidate, has never hidden her admiration<br />for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, and on Friday she met with him in the Kremlin.<br />Mr. Lacapelle said that She’s got a privileged relationship with Putin,<br />Le Pen criticized the European Union, which she wants France to leave, for having "mistreated"<br />Russia, calling Russia an "indispensable interlocutor" in the Middle East.<br />Le Pen, who Russian television reported had met earlier with parliamentary deputies in Moscow,<br />while calling for the lifting of sanctions against Russia for its land grab in Ukraine.
