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?Macron win powerful message to far-right?
 Macron ‘carries hopes’ of millions of Europeans, says Merkel THE HAGUE: One of Europe’s top rabbis on Monday welcomed pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election, saying voters sent a "very powerful" message to the country’s far-right. Macron’s sound defeat of far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the run-off vote is "very good news for France," said Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the influential Conference of European Rabbis. "The fact that two-thirds of French voters didn’t want a far-right government is a very powerful statement," Goldschmidt told AFP. Many of the votes cast were **t for Macron, rather "it was a protest vote against Marine Le Pen," he said. Goldschmidt however said Jewish communities -- including in France -- were increasingly worried about right-wing, anti-Semitic sentiment creeping into mainstream politics. Despite Le Pen’s efforts to purge her National Front (FN) party of the anti-Semitism which became its trademark under the leadership of her father Jean-Marie Le Pen, the party continues to court controversy over the issue. Last month interim party leader Jean-Francois Jalkh was forced to step down after he was accused of praising a Holocaust denier. Jalkh strenuously denied making the remarks. Le Pen herself drew criticism for saying that today’s France bore ** responsibility for the roundup and deportation of French Jews during World War II. "If the French police and Vichy officials who collaborated (with the Nazis) did **t load up people and send them to Germany, then, who did?" said Goldschmidt. Today French Jews, the largest community outside of the United States and Israel, have been leaving France at a steady pace since around 2005. Elsewhere on the continent, Jewish communities are alarmed about proposals in **rway to ban ritual circumcision for boys under the age of 16, as well as a vote to ban ritual slaughter in the French-speaking part of Belgium, Goldschmidt said. He was speaking ahead of a three-day biennial convention in Amsterdam that will bring together more than 70 chief rabbis to discuss issues including rising anti-Semitism and how to protect Europe’s Jewish communities. "Targeted attacks against members of the Jewish community in recent years... demonstrate that anti-Semitism is **t a curse of the past, but is a threat and a reality in Europe," the Council of Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly said last year. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday that millions of Europeans were counting on the success of incoming French president Emmanuel Macron. "Macron carries the hopes of millions of French people and also many in Germany and across Europe," she told reporters, saying she was "very pleased" by his victory. "He led a courageous, pro-European campaign and stands for openness to the world and decisively for the social market eco**my." As France commemorated victory over the Nazis in World War II, Merkel said the two countries had "over the decades developed a solid friendship" whose preservation had become a "pillar of German policy". "We, Germany and France, are facing many shared challenges and are working to lead the European Union into a secure and successful future," she said. "We make an effort to coordinate our approach and take, when we can, steps together for the well-being of both our countries and the well-being of Europe." She said she hoped and believed that cooperation with Macron would progress "in exactly this spirit". "I wish him and all the people of France the greatest success," Merkel added. The German leader and her government had thrown their support behind Macron against far-right and anti-EU challenger Marine Le Pen during the campaign for the French presidential election. She spoke by telephone with Macron just minutes after his resounding win on Sunday and praised his commitment to the EU. أكثر... ??????? ??????: ?Macron win powerful message to far-right? || ??????: ahlam1399 || ??????: اسم منتداك
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