PARIS, January 3. /TASS/. The EU sanctions against Russia, which France complies with, are killing its economy with rising energy prices and should be lifted, the leader of the French party The Patriots, Florian Philippot, has said.

"Anti-Russian sanctions are killing us with the explosion of energy prices. The EU, the euro and its policies are killing us. Macronism (the economic policies of President Emmanuel Macron - TASS) are killing us, too," he wrote on his page in the social network X (formerly Twitter).

"We need a break with the past! A stop to sanctions, withdrawal from the European electricity market, Frexit (France's exit from the European Union following the UK's example - TASS) and economic patriotism," Philippot said.

He pointed to the disastrous effects of France's current economic policies, citing the decline in the country's industrial output last December and noting that it was "the worst drop since May 2020.".