France and Germany's relations could suffer as consequence of Macron's election blunder (Image: Getty) France and Germany are on a collision course as Emmanuel Macron opened the doors to the premiership to "deeply Germanophic" extremist parties, German experts have warned. President Macron earlier this month announced France would head to the polls early after he suffered a crushing defeat at the European elections , which handed a huge victory to the far-right National Rally (RN). The decision left many across Europe baffled, and sparked major concerns in neighbouring Germany on the impact the win of RN leader Jordan Bardella could have on the nations's alliance.
Mr Bardella has emerged as the favourite to win in the poll, an outcome that pushed left parties to form a coalition, the New Popular Front, to keep Mr Bardella out of government. The coalition includes the far-left La France Insoumise . function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.
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