France's far-right National Front party attracted one in four votes Sunday at the European polls.Party leader Marine Le Pen said the French people no longer want to be ruled from the outside.Our objective with all delegates is to block all damaging European resolutions that means to defend all circumustances the interests of France and the French people.Supporters claim the virulent anti-immigrant rhetoric of the National Front's early years has moderated. But there was shock, though, among immigrant communities in Paris.Mohad Said Elouach, who came to France five years ago, said, The far right is a danger. The far right does not change; they remain the far right.Parties like the National Front combine fears over immigration with concerns over the economy,said Andrea Mammone, an expert on far-right politics in Europe at Royal Holloway University in London.The economic situation is part of this problem because a reduction of the job market, so more people are competing for this;reduction of welfare, so finding people responsible for this, so immigrants, competitors.The result will be felt beyond France,says analyst Janis Emmanouilidis of the European Policy Center. Having a weak France is not good news if you want to do EU policy making.In Britain, the anti-EU UK Independence Party topped the vote, and now holds a third of Britain's 73 seats in the European Parliament.
