
Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron and right wing leader Marine Le Pen, who go head-to-head in the second round of France’s presidential election on May 7, are diametrically opposed on issues ranging from taxes to Europe. Here is where the two candidates stand on the key questions: – Europe – Le Pen has long insisted on the need for France to drop the euro single currency and return to the franc, and also leave Europe’s Schengen visa-free travel zone. She has predicted the EU “will die” and has vowed to hold a “Frexit” referendum on France’s membership of the European Union. Le Pen wants to abolish an EU directive allowing companies in one EU country to send their workers elsewhere in the bloc, and opposes the CETA trade deal between the EU and Canada. Macron, a former banker and economy minister…