Yesterday we posted the first part of an interview with Marine Le Pen by the French radio service RTL. In the second half of the interview Ms. Le Pen discussed the recent emergency EU summit on migration, and President Emmanuel Macron’s handling of the “refugee” crisis.

Many thanks to Ava Lon for the translation, and to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Video transcript:

03:03 Marine Le Pen, the Italian Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte,

03:07 exclaimed while leaving the European Council on Friday: “Italy is no longer alone!”

03:11 The 28 [EU countries, EU Council] took a measure,

03:16 took into consideration the situation denounced by Italy and

03:20 in fact they confirmed their duty of solidarity; are you satisfied with that?

03:24 No, I’m not satisfied with this agreement at all; I think it will

03:28 change nothing whatsoever in the migratory flood. So I think that

03:32 it doesn’t have the essential quality, which would be the quality of putting in place

03:36 the DISCOURAGEMENT of illegal migrants who wish — and there are

03:41 millions of them — who wish to come to Europe.

03:45 I understand that Italy is thus defending, promptly, Italian interests,

03:49 since Italy is being flooded as the country of first reception, but

03:53 the reality… —Marine Le Pen, it’s true that between 2015 and 2016

03:57 there were one million who arrived on European shores. How many arrived in Italy

04:01 between January and May, you do know it, you had a look, how many, how many…?

04:06 I’m sorry… —14,000, 14,000… — excuse me, but I’m not the head of Italian government!

04:10 I wish to be the head of France, and I tell you that there are

04:14 one hundred thousand asylum seekers — a number that has never been reached —

04:18 who sought asylum in 2017 —OK, but we were talking about Italy…

04:22 and that’s why I was specifying it —and additionally beyond those procedures of seeking asylum

04:26 — because the French people need to know it — besides those asylum seekers

04:31 there are also tens of thousands of illegals

04:35 who enter our country, who don’t wish to seek asylum and who…

04:39 and of whom we find a little everywhere, including, incidentally, in Calais, since, in reality,

04:43 the Jungle has almost regenerated. —Well, the illegals, it was obviously an estimate

04:47 by definition; Emmanuel Macron recognized that agreement, I quote: “Which doesn’t solve this

04:51 — mostly political — crisis , but allows to Europe to continue to move forward.”

04:55 But move forward towards what? —Europe continue to be united and continues to move forward

05:00 with the propositions that… which are in the agreements. —Well, yes, the EU

05:04 continues to advance towards the brink! Voilà! And it is taking us

05:08 with them. And we don’t want it. Therefore I obviously wish

05:12 that in migratory matters, [the measures] would be put in place which we have been demanding

05:16 for years! And we will end up getting them, incidentally!

05:20 Except we will get them because the situation became unmanageable and

05:24 our people are suffering too much from this situation, and to be precise:

05:29 the creation of humanitarian camps IN THE COUNTRIES [where] MIGRATION ORIGINATED and not,

05:33 of course, on European territory. — And those are the famous

05:37 “landing platforms”? Which, this project, is in the agreement of the 28.

05:41 Well, see? Apparently it would have been good to have listened to Marine Le Pen five years ago,

05:45 and this way we would have saved plenty of time, and we … —those are agreements controlled by

05:50 international organizations… —and it would have prevented a lot of suffering. I think the NGO boats

05:53 must be seized, who are clearly accomplices of the smugglers; I think that we have to embark and

05:58 control migrant boats who leave… bring them to safety… —Emmanuel Macron recognized that

06:02 they were carrying water for the smugglers, those boats… —and bring them

06:06 to the shores of Syria or

06:10 Libya, where they came from. Voilà. I think that this is all we have to enforce,

06:15 and then I also think that we have to put in place a dissuasive migratory policy in our

06:19 country. Because of course the migrants will risk

06:23 their lives in attempting to cross [the Mediterranean] as long as they can find

06:27 a benefit, which is an extraordinary benefit, in coming here, including

06:31 the illegal way of arriving in our country. —Summarizing: it means that the controlled centers,

06:35 those ‘hot spots’ that would help examine the situation of migrants

06:39 Upon their arrival on European shores,

06:44 this is a solution that doesn’t seem the right one to you: to avoid

06:48 having the migrants — those men who suffered so much, those women, those children —

06:52 spread throughout Europe without

06:56 the agreement of their countries of origin. —All those who contribute to establishing controls on

07:05 obtaining the right to asylum, in the departure country and not

07:09 on our European soil, are — I think — going in the right direction.

07:13 It’s the reason — I have to mention — why I demanded,

07:17 several years ago, that asylum applications be analyzed

07:21 in any consulate or any embassy of any country,

07:25 but that under no circumstances they could be examined on

07:30 national territory. And do you know why?

07:34 Because in reality a huge majority of the migrants are economic migrants. —90 percent.

07:38 Well, OK, except when you refuse them asylum,

07:42 well, they stay anyway on national territory. And in the end, after

07:46 a number of years, they are regularized or they are naturalized,

07:51 and all that of course creates an absolutely incredible