Roaming charges to return post-Brexit?
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Le Pen vows to ban dual nationality The leader of the Front National says she will ban dual nationality with non-EU countries if she wins this year's presidential elections
rope of nations”. The presidential hopeful said dual US nationals would, however, have to renounce their American citizenship, despite her enthusiastic backing of Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel to the United States from seven mainly Muslim nations. Le Pen, who is a vocal supporter of Brexit and has said she will ditch the Euro single currency and hold a “Frexit” referendum if elected, did not specify if British dual nationals would also be forced to choose a nationality when Britain leaves the EU. The country’s Jewish community has reacted angrily, calling the move an attempt “to destroy identity of French Jews” - French citizens with Israeli pass-
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ational Front leader Marine le Pen has vowed to ban French citizens from holding dual nationality with non-EU countries if she is victorious in this year’s presidential elections. Le Pen made the comments in a recent interview broadcast on France 2 in which she also promised to introduce a law forcing companies to prioritise French nationals for jobs. “I think that people should only be allowed to have dual citizenship if the two countries they hold a passport for are in the EU,” she explained, before highlighting one exception. An outspoken admirer of Vladimir Putin, le Pen said she will not include Russia in the policy because, she claims, it is part of the “Eu-
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