 "A woman walks past official posters of candidates for the 2017 French presidential election Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron Photo: Reuters")
Sunday’s contest between independent centrist Emmanuel Macron and the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen in the French presidential runoff will amount, in effect, to a referendum on France’s membership of the European Union.
A May 3 television debate between Macron and Le Pen showed how the candidates hold strikingly different views on issues such as trade, immigration and confronting the impacts of globalisation.
But on no other issue is their chasm as deep as it is on France’s relationship with the EU.
Le Pen has vowed to take France out of the eurozone,
