Le Front National did win a significant second place in last days regional elections in France, led by Marine Le Pen, trailing behind the UMP of Nicolas Sarkozy, which this time took the victory, but representing this a waking call just in the aftermath of Charlie Hebdo´s terror attacks carried out by Muslim immigrants, and in which context this FN second place clearly constitutes a strong warning to french political system and society, which could project growing sentiments and feeling of xenophobia and religious intolerance, and what could in the end be some kind of a beginning of the end of the Agreement of Schengen free movement in the european countries, the reinforcment of nationalism and maybe chauvinistic movements and organizations, in a landscape where already the economic panorama is grim and the euro doesnt show any signal of recovery, in a wider scenario of fragmentation of Europe´s position vis a vis Russia, in terms of energy security, markets, and geopolitics. This second place of Le Front National also is reminiscent of what just happened in Spain and the terror attacks at Madrid´s Atocha train station which just afterwards turned the electorate against the Socialist Party and giving the support to current government of Popular Party´s Mariano Rajoy, as a show of punishment for being weak against immigration and ever growing sentiments of xenophobia. Also, we must wonder and analyze what could mean for Russia the spread and revival of the far right and ultra right wing movements, euroskeptics, parties and organizations, since all these players play in favor of the dissapearance of Europe as a political body, which could bode and fit well into Russia´s desires and intentions in Eurasia as a whole, and interesting to see what the reactions of the White House to all the political dynamics in Europe will be now.
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