Concerns over a Marine Le Pen presidency have sharpened focus on Emmanuel Macron’s remaining time to shape EU policy. (EPA Images pic)BRUSSELS: The spectre of far-right leader Marine Le Pen winning France's presidency with a pledge to go head-to-head with the EU is already giving Brussels the jitters – and looming large over Emmanuel Macron's final months in power.
France heads to the polls in April and May, after which Macron will exit, as he can only serve two terms as president of the EU's second-largest economy.
But as Macron met his EU counterparts for a Brussels summit, a European diplomat said Le Pen was already "in the room" – with the frontrunner's potential victory hanging over their talks Thursday and Friday on future spending and Ukraine.
