Valérie Hayer chose a drastic comparison: „Yesterday Daladier and Chamberlain, today Le Pen and Orbán (…) We are in Munich in 1938,“ said the leading candidate of the Renaissance Party at the start of her campaign for the European elections. Hayer compared the position of the Rassemblement National (RN) on the Russian war against Ukraine with the European appeasement policy before the Second World War, setting the tone for the coming weeks.