Between Zollverein and Patrie: The French National Front, the “New” April 21 and the Rejection of the European Constitution

dc.contributor.author	Berezin, Mabel
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-12T16:55:38Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-12T16:55:38Z
dc.date.issued	2007-08
dc.description	Part One of the Constitution Trilogy
dc.description.abstract	On May 29, 2005, French citizens voted to reject the proposed Constitutional Treaty for Europe. The empirical center of this article is the French National Front’s post-referendum claiming of the “No” vote as it looked forward to the 2007 French Presidential elections. April 21, 2002, the date that Jean Marie Le Pen came in second in the first round of the Presidential elections, emerged in the pre and post referendum period as an iconic event, a form of history as political metaphor, that all sides deployed to structure arguments about the future of France and the future of Europe. This article first explores the pre and post referendum discussion of the constitution; second, turns to the French and European context to situate the vote; and third, explores the landscape of political possibilities that the vote and its aftermath presented.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/55034
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies
dc.subject	France
dc.subject	Constitutional Treaty
dc.subject	Le Pen
dc.subject	National Front
dc.subject	European Union
dc.title	Between Zollverein and Patrie: The French National Front, the “New” April 21 and the Rejection of the European Constitution
dc.type	report

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