French Far Right Targets Ukraine Aid Despite Small Budget Impact

French far right wants to cut aid to Ukraine. It represents a drop in the ocean of public finances

Several senior members of the far-right Rassemblement National have cited budgetary discipline to try and justify their proposal to cut financial aid to Ukraine, should Marine Le Pen win next year's presidential election.

French far right targets Ukraine aid despite small budget impact

The far-right National Rally (RN) party in France is attempting to justify plans to cut financial aid to Ukraine by pointing to the country's strained public finances. However, France’s spending on support for Kyiv accounts for only a small share of the national budget and about 4% of the country’s annual budget deficit, according to an analysis by Le Monde. The debate intensified after RN’s first vice-president, Louis Aliot, said on September 3…