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Macron accused of putting France’s right to protest at risk with ‘vandal’s law’

Making innocent protesters liable for damage would be bad for rule of law and play into far-right hands, say opponents

The Guardian - UK · 14h ago

Far-right Le Pen promises French ‘rebirth’ as RN sets sights on 2027 presidency

Marine Le Pen has promised to lead France towards a national “rebirth” as she closed the National Rally’s congress in Orléans on Sunday, combining an optimistic vision of the country’s future with hardline pledges on immigration, security and sovereignty.

Radio France Internationale · 16h ago

French far-right leader Le Pen seeks to leverage unrest in presidential campaign kick-off

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, addressed some 10,000 supporters on Sunday in the city of Orleans as she kicked off her presidential campaign, a day after nationwide cost-of-living protests flared again into violence. Le Pen, the frontrunner, is seen to be benefiting in the polls from…

France 24 · 19h ago

Marine Le Pen vs Alice Weidel: How the far right wants to reshape the EU

AfD leader Alice Weidel unveiled her EU vision in Strasbourg a week after Marine Le Pen did the same in Brussels. Both parties seek to reshape the bloc around national sovereignty but differ on fiscal policy, energy and the extent of reform.

Euronews · Oct 22

Prosecutors search European Parliament offices of far-right Patriots bloc in graft probe

EU prosecutors on Wednesday searched offices belonging to the far-right Patriots parliamentary group as part of a graft probe into the bloc’s dissolved predecessor, Identity and Democracy, which brought together several European far-right parties including French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s National Rally.

France 24 · Oct 21

From strife-torn France to the UK, rightwing populists win when they stir chaos while promising order

Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump are arsonists who play at being firefighters. Nigel Farage is finding that act harder to pull off in Andy Burnham’s Britain, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

The Guardian - UK · Oct 21

‘A direct cultural threat’: your questions on the rise of the right across Europe answered

With support for far right politics well established across Europe, how might upcoming elections shape its future? Europe correspondents Jon Henley and Ashifa Kassam answered Reddit users’ questions about their reporting from the continent

The Guardian - UK · Oct 16

France’s other schools problem – the teens violently smashing up their old primaries: ‘They think it’s not worthy of respect – so they trash it’

The phenomenon of pupils wrecking equipment and setting fire to classrooms predates the current crisis. Is it rooted in poverty, social media peer pressure – or just plain boredom?

The Guardian - UK · Oct 11

Le Pen's top ally Bardella faces fresh claims he sought to cover up past anti-Semitic comments

France's far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella deleted data from a former activist Facebook account as soon as allegations surfaced that he wrote anti-Semitic comments in his youth, French investigative weekly Le Canard enchaîné said Friday, piling pressure on the top ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen.

France 24 · Oct 9

'Potemkin budget’: French government slams Marine Le Pen’s plans

"You're dreaming in colour", "a Potemkin budget, flimsy as cardboard", "purely incantatory, utterly unenforceable": the government torpedoes the counter-budget put forward by National Rally leader Marine Le Pen.

Euronews · Oct 7