Souverainism

The souverainism is political doctrines supporting the acquisition or the safeguarding of the political autonomy of a nation or an area in the exercise of the Souveraineté. He is opposed to the Fédéralisme like with the Jacobinisme seen from the supra-official point of view and approaches the independence movements.

European Souverainism

See also: Euroscepticisme

French term to indicate a political current which militates for a “ Europe of the nations ”, so that each country way its respected differences and its autonomy. Its defenders name eurorealists - in opposition to the federalistic Europeans who wish the United States of Europe - and militate for confederal Europe. This current is sometimes also named Euroscepticisme. The souverainism is thus opposed to the Fédéralisme, but some estimate particularly that it recovers sometimes a Nationalisme not assumed, in France for the parties claiming itself some (cf lists below). Its adversaries estimate that this current is actually opposed to any idea European construction since they refuse to allot a real political power to him. Charles Maurras also gave in its time a definition of the federalism, respecting the people and the identities.

Souverainism, incarnated by Jean-Marie Le Pen, Philippe de Villiers or Jimmy Goldsmith, deceased in 1997, denounce the international Libre-échange, the Mondialisation, estimating that those are done with the detriment of France and more largely of the European nations. Those denounce in particular the economic policy followed by the EU in Brussels, like opposite with the interests of the industrial employment in France. In this direction, these souverainists can join the positions adopted by the antiones, located on the left or at the extreme left. However, these souverainists do not adopt a critical posture towards the Capitalisme, which they continue to support as being the best possible economic system.

With the the European Parliament:

the parliamentary groups Identity, tradition, sovereignty, Independence/Democracy and Union for Europe of the nations claim this tendency

Political movements French souverainists:

the Movement for France - MPF (souverainist)
the Gathering for France - RPF-IE, associated with UMP, (gaullist)
the Gathering for independence and the sovereignty of France - RIF (related to the MPF)
the Republican Popular union (souverainist)
Upright the Republic (club gaullist), member of UMP before the scission of 2007.
the Republican movement and citizen - MRC (souverainist of left)
the democratic Gathering (center souverainist and royalist)
the Forum for France (souverainist)
the Forum of the social republicans - FRS, associated with the UMP- (social Catholicism)
the French Action (monarchist)
the Royal Alliance (royalist)
the communist Pole of rebirth in France - PRCF, dissidence of the PCF- (Communist souverainist)
the Confederation of the independent ecologists (ecologists souverainists).

Movements close to the souverainism:

National front - FN
National republican movement - MNR

Quotation: “The only reasonable economic policy is the following one: outside, to protect, inside, to release. Unequal competition and asphyxiation by the taxes and loads are the two faces of the same crisis. Socialism with the Frenchwoman and the mondialism of Brussels cumulate their devastators effects. ” - Philippe de Villiers - Le Figaro February 16th, 2006 (see Directive Bolkestein)

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