Time to think the unthinkable about President Le Pen | Timothy Garton Ash

Logic is against Marine Le Pen, as it was with Trump and Brexit. No wonder people are weighing up the possible repercussionsCould President Marine Le Pen trigger article 50 without a parliamentary vote? Article 50 of the Lisbon treaty, that is, to take France out of the European Union, following Britain. Such is the question I find myself discussing in Paris with leading French experts. Provisional conclusion: since France, unlike Britain, is a presidential democracy, she could probably do it he