Philippe Olivier (RN): “The European Union is a merchant empire”

His itinerary is made up of back and forth, the mysteries of the man in the shadows and public life in France and Europe.

At 18, he joined the National Front; Jean-Marie Le Pen era and his slippages which can no longer be counted. He embraced the activism of the extreme right and participated in the “Devil of the Republic” campaigns when he ran in Paris for the municipal elections of 1983 or in 1988 for the presidential election which he considered “dazzling”. But ten years later, in 1998, tired of the excesses, he followed Bruno Mégret, the number 2 of the Front in a fratricidal split… He moved away two years later, but remained in the sovereignist galaxy, from Philippe de Villiers to Nicolas Dupont Aignan until his return to the side of Marine Le Pen, whose older sister he married. He becomes her brother-in-law, but also her advisor and her pen.

He is often described as one of the architects of demonization, and in particular of the name change. In 2018, the FN became RN and electoral victories accumulated, despite a glass ceiling in the presidential election, three times. And a last one in the legislative elections of 2024.

Now a European deputy elected in 2019 and re-elected in 2024, he sits with the elected representatives of Viktor Orbán's Fidesz, he will tell us what his project is for France and Europe and the lessons he draws from the last elections.