Le Pen, Bardella offer to slash red tape in overture to business leaders

Andreea Neblea

PARIS — Far-right leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella pledged on Monday to "liberate" the French economy by slashing red tape and bureaucracy. "Regulations, often accumulated without real assessment of their impact, represent a staggering cost for economic actors ... [and] decrease the purchasing power of French citizens," they wrote in a joint letter to business leaders published on X.  According to the text, Le Pen and Bardella are tasking a group of National Rally officials to meet