法国极右翼总统候选人玛丽娜·勒庞于周三（10月14日）谴责在法国及其他地区关键2027年选举之前，就欧盟长期预算达成“锁定”协议的举动是不民主的。
French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Wednesday, October 14, denounced as undemocratic a push to "lock in" a deal on the EU's long-term budget ahead of key 2027 elections in France and elsewhere.
欧盟领导人正在争分夺秒，力求在明年之前达成该集团下一个长期预算的协议，届时许多成员国将举行选举——包括勒庞正在领先参选的法国——这可能使任何重大协议变得复杂化。
EU leaders are scrambling to reach a deal on the bloc's next long-term budget before next year, when elections in many member states – including France, where Le Pen is running in the lead – could complicate any grand bargain.
勒庞在布鲁塞尔领导人峰会前夕的新闻发布会上表示，就2028-2034年预算达成协议的“加速时间表”是“试图抢先并扼杀即将到来的民主选择”的尝试。“我们被要求在一年多前就接受其‘锁定’。这一切都不严肃，”她说，并补充称，如果在法国明年4月和5月选出总统之前就通过预算，那就将是一场“民主丑闻”。
Addressing a news conference in Brussels on the eve of a leaders' summit, Le Pen called the "accelerating timetable" on agreeing the 2028-2034 budget "an attempt to pre-empt and stifle upcoming democratic choices." "We are being asked to accept its lock-in more than a year ahead of time. None of this is serious," she said, adding it would be a "democratic scandal" if a budget were to be adopted before France chooses a president in April and May next year.
她还表示，她相信“有若干领导人”不会在选举之前通过该预算，因为他们担心这会被视为“不合法”。
She also said she was convinced "a number of leaders" would not adopt the budget before the election, for fear it would be seen as "illegitimate".
勒庞重申了她削减法国对欧盟预算贡献的意图，设定一个“严格上限”为50亿欧元。她之前曾表示，她希望利用部分资金在法国实现1400亿欧元的节约。
Le Pen reiterated her intent to slash the French contribution to the EU budget, with a "strict cap" of €5 billion. She has previously said she wants to use some of that money for cost savings of €140 billion in France.
“马克龙的确切相反” 候选人阐述了她对欧洲的更广泛愿景，称这是法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙的“完全相反”——她在批评中毫不留情。
'Exact opposite' of Macron The candidate laid out her broader vision for Europe as the "exact opposite" of President Emmanuel Macron's – pulling no punches in her criticism.
“他希望打造一个强大的欧洲。然而，我们得到的是一个无力的欧洲，”勒庞对记者说。“我们原本应该拥有一个有边界的欧洲。然而，我们得到的是一个对整个世界开放的欧洲。”如果当选，她誓言反对欧盟的任何进一步扩张——这是她长期坚持的立场。目前的候选国包括乌克兰，以及阿尔巴尼亚和黑山，并有重新推动吸纳新成员的努力。
"He wanted a powerful Europe. Instead, we got a powerless Europe," Le Pen told reporters. "We were supposed to have a Europe of borders. Rather, we got a Europe that is open to the entire world." If elected, she vowed to oppose any further enlargement of the European Union – a longstanding position. Current candidate countries include Ukraine as well as Albania and Montenegro, with a renewed push to get new members in.
勒庞还对欧盟执行机构——欧洲委员会进行了尖锐的批评，称其“经常越权”，应恢复为“服务于成员国的秘书处”。
And Le Pen took pointed shots at the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, which "constantly overreaches" and should return to being a "secretariat serving" the member states.
在气候政策方面，她提出，每个国家向欧盟预算的缴纳部分应根据其经济的碳足迹来计算。
On climate policy, she proposed part of each country's contribution to the EU budget should be calculated according to their economies' carbon footprint.
此次布鲁塞尔的新闻发布会是在勒庞与爱国者集团的欧洲盟友会面之后举行的，该集团习惯在欧盟领导人峰会之前召集其成员。
The press conference in Brussels came after Le Pen met her European allies from the Patriots group, which habitually gathers its members before the EU leaders' summits.