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France's Hollande, Villeroy warn against Le Pen's euro exit plans

From reuters.com

Ditching the euro to return to the franc would harm the purchasing power of the French, President Francois Hollande and central bank governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Saturday, in tacit warnings against the National Front. Opinion polls show the anti-EU, anti-immigrant National Front (FN) leader Marine Le Pen qualifying for the April 23 first round of the presidential election but losing the May 7 run-off to centrist Emmanuel Macron. Leaving the euro is one of Le Pen's trademark policies, both a marker of her anti-establishment stance that attracts voters angry with globalisation, and an obstacle to her ... (full story)

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