Europeans 2024: Julien Aubert (LR) formulates 14 proposals for “a Europe that respects sovereignties”

Less than eight months before the European elections, Julien Aubert and his “Dare to France” movement brandish a 58-page document offering another vision of the Old Continent. The former LR MP for Vaucluse, who also sits on the Republican bodies, wants to contribute to the European project of the right by pleading for a third way, between Frexit and federalism. Defeated in the 2022 legislative elections, Julien Aubert does not hide his interest in an eligible place on the LR list in the June 2024 ballot. Because if he has not yet chosen his head of list, he has already explained his desires to Éric Ciotti and Laurent Wauquiez. As well as François-Xavier Bellamy who, barring any surprises, should be reinvested to lead his camp's list and continue his mission at the head of the LR delegation to the European Parliament. In the meantime, Julien Aubert has set himself the ambition of defending “a Gaullist, modern and not caricatured vision of what a project for the European Union could be”.

This project is illustrated by 14 proposals in favor of a change of strategy and a new approach to the Franco-German couple. All guided by the cardinal principle of a return of French sovereignty. A question of survival, according to “Oser la France”. “The European Union will not survive the radical surge which is gripping all European countries, white-hot by economic decline and uncontrolled immigration,” we read in the blue booklet.

Among the main proposals put forward, we note: the sanctuarization of the French Constitution as the “supreme legal norm in France”; the suspension of the debate on the enlargement of the Union until the limits of the EU's competences have been clearly debated; the application of the principle of "systematic reciprocity", according to which what is not authorized by a non-European country vis-à-vis the EU must not be authorized by the EU vis-à-vis this last. “Dare France” also advocates the possibility for France to use budgetary weapons to “force a European reconfiguration” or even the control of national borders via a “progressive exit plan” from the Schengen area.

Supporting the constitutional bill of the parliamentary right, posed as a prerequisite to any new text or reform on immigration, Julien Aubert even wants to go further. “We need a constitutional shield over everything,” he defends, praising the example of the Karlsruhe Court in Germany. And by following in the footsteps of his elders, as when, on May 5, 1992, Philippe Séguin, RPR deputy from Vosges, rose to the podium of the Assembly with a warning. Became the epigraph of the blue booklet: “Nothing is more dangerous than a nation deprived for too long of the sovereignty through which its freedom is expressed, that is to say its inalienable right to choose its destiny.”