Far-right French presidential hopeful, who will go on trial on Monday, allegedly embezzled money from EUThe French far-right presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen and a slew of fellow National Rally (RN) chiefs will go on trial on Monday over allegations …
The French far-right wants to make the best out of a complication situation during a trial which could potentially bar Le Pen from running for president in 2027.
French Rassemblement National (RN) sweetheart Jordan Bardella allegedly drafted falsified documents to prove he was working as a part-time MEP assistant while he was actually working for the party, an investigation by French daily Libération found.
The French far right led by National Rally (RN) on Sunday, contrary to expectations, lost France’s second round of legislative elections according the projections. While RN has managed to improve its image after Marine Le Pen took over the party from …
Once in office, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni moderated her positions. Will Marine Le Pen do the same?
The cordon sanitaire was once a non-negotiable electoral strategy that parties across the French political aisles implemented to block the far right from getting to power, but it is now shattered almost to the point of irrelevance.
Sunday’s first round vote puts Marine Le Pen’s radical right within touching distance of power. The priority must now be damage limitationIf Emmanuel Macron still harboured hopes that his decision to gift Marine Le Pen a snap parliamentary election wou…
France can look in the mirror and ask what went wrong – or vote for the left to limit the National Rally’s grip on powerFor all of my adult life, the Le Pen family has felt like a shadow hanging over my head. Jean-Marie, the father, used to make jokes …
Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally won 33% of the vote in the first round of the legislative election, according to official results, putting it iwithn reach of becoming the biggest political force in the French parliament. Nevertheless, national…
The president must decide if his candidates should drop out and back the left to stop the far right winning power in France for the first time.
Opponents have said party is ‘political heir’ of Vichy regime, which collaborated with Nazis, amid efforts to halt its risePolitical opponents of Marine Le Pen’s poll-leading National Rally are seizing on the far-right party’s history to try to mobilis…
France’s National Rally has styled itself as a defender of women’s rights — partly by attacking its traditional bogeyman, immigration.
France’s financial markets lost further ground on Wednesday (19 June) after the European Commission announced it intends to open an excessive deficit procedure (EDP) over the national budget, exacerbating fears that the ongoing political reshuffling ma…
We have much to fear if the French president, playing with fire, opens the door to a far-right governmentTwenty-two years after Jean-Marie Le Pen was unexpectedly voted through to the second round of a French presidential election– an electoral shock t…
France’s football captain Kylian Mbappé warns of a historic election. The far right says he is out of touch with reality.
The Le Pen family drama, Éric Ciotti apparently locking himself in his office … it would almost be funny if it weren’t so bleakÉric Ciotti, exit stage right. On 11 June, the leader of France’s legacy centre-right party Les Républicains (LR) went on TV …
France’s leader has changed his country and Europe — and not in ways that he necessarily intended.
This could be the most destructive national election in the 70-year history of the European project.
An alliance with Reconquest would strengthen Marine Le Pen’s National Rally ahead of a snap election.
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party has harnessed the country’s widespread discontent with the elite in the capital.
France’s Marion Maréchal has made the “defence” of European civilisation and fighting against the “Islamification” of Europe a cornerstone of her platform as she leads the far-right Reconquest party’s candidate list in the European elections. Maréchal…
Slick, disciplined and a hit with young voters, the president of the National Rally is remaking the party in his image.
The French president wants to run a pro-European message but teen killings, shootings and deadly protests have fueled the far-right.
France’s Gaza diplomacy is also about about navigating France’s internal political and religious divisions, which have been a frequent source of domestic tensions.
Pro-Macron officials are struggling to find an effective way to break the momentum of the charismatic 28-year-old as European elections tick closer.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Alexander De Croo and Kaja Kallas are some of those with famous parents in politics.
François Bayrou, one of Macron’s top allies and a possible future presidential candidate, was facing a possible ban on running for public office.
France’s far-right National Rally lawmakers claim Macron’s party is taking a leaf from their playbook.
French far-right party denies irregularities in employment of parliamentary assistantsFrench far-right politician Marine Le Pen will stand trial alongside 27 others over alleged misuse of EU funds, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Friday, charges …
The cross-party event planned for Sunday points up political fissures and backfired against the French president.
As antisemitic incidents rise in France, far right leader’s party is promising to protect French Jews from IslamismThe French far-right leader Marine Le Pen’s support of Israel in the wake of the Hamas attacks is being seen as part of a long-running dr…
