French Minister for Industrial Recovery Arnaud Montebourg speaks to journalists as he leaves the weekly cabinet meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris May 2, 2013. REUTERS/Charles Platiau
PARIS (Reuters) - French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg accused European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Sunday of fuelling far-right and populist movements in Europe as EU institutions failed to defend the interests of ordinary people.
His comments came just before France's conservatives narrowly saw off a challenge from the far-right National Front to win a by-election in the southern French constituency of Villeneuve-sur-Lot. President Francois Hollande's Socialists had already been eliminated in the first round.
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