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NATO's next nightmare: The French presidential election

NATO is bracing for the possibility that France’s next president could pull Paris from NATO’s integrated military command, a stance voiced by Marine Le Pen and Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Internal polling cited shows about 54% of French voters would vote to stay in NATO, but a hard-line victory could jeopardize Paris’s role and complicate alliance planning. Experts say such a move could take about a year to implement and would carry budgetary and operational consequences; France previously left NATO’s command in 1966 and returned in 2009.

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