France's far right National Front political party leader Marine Le Pen arrives at the Elysee Palace in Paris to attend a meeting with French President Francois Hollande, May 16, 2014. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer
PARIS (Reuters) - It was meant to be the campaign launch of a new Eurosceptic alliance, but the planned April 16 meeting starring France's Marine Le Pen and Dutchman Geert Wilders in Strasbourg, home of the European Parliament, never took place.
Five months after the two far right leaders, who oppose the euro currency and European Union membership, announced in The Hague they were teaming up to create an influential group in the assembly, they no longer wanted to be seen together in public.
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