Presidential election: will Europe be the deciding factor?

Issues over such questions do presume awareness of certain realities. In France they are: French national identity and its steady erosion that the EU represents. Apart from its strange relationship with Germany - where the need for France to retain or attempt to retain a political mileage to offset Germany's fiscal strength has been its traditional efforts and which now may be waning owing to the loss of French prestige over far too many issues than mere Turkey & Armenia.
Issues of this loss of legitimacy is always a crisis for people that can be expected to think and act over issues like Europe and the realities of a slow melting cheese. That is what France has - a slow melting cheese that may forge an European Identity and each piece of cheese vies to be the one that would forge it. German cheese, French cheese and of course the fears of others of the two - just like France fears an American cheese forging it into a global culture of "consumerism" (to give French nationals the benefit of doubt and not go by more popular public discussions that appear clever. The French are notorious for sounding clever while the Germans are famous for seeking substance in discussions and arguments.). The differences and the challenges of the cheese and whose concerns about the slow melting cheese remain as valid in France as it is in the Benelux states or even Liechtenstein perhaps ( as an exaggerated example). Whose cheese amidst the concern will we have enough cheese this winter for ourselves (valid inflation concerns)? Two questions that the French will need to battle and weigh - amidst the growing national crisis of legitimacy (passing laws about Armenia & Turkey and what it implies).