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RN 'breach': Amid 'severe' differences with 'bright, young' Bardella, Le Pen 'dictates party line'

François Picard is pleased to welcome Victor Mallet, Financial Times Senior Editor at the World News Desk. He interprets the emerging tensions between Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella as more than a clash of personalities. They reveal a deeper struggle over the political future of France's far-right National Rally…

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France: the far-right’s proposed headscarf ban in public places breaches religious freedom and anti-discrimination principles

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French police officers suspended over racist video as far-right links emerge

Four municipal police officers in the southern French city of Carcassonne remain suspended on Thursday as prosecutors investigate racist, sexist and homophobic remarks caught on a police body camera.

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'Sickening' racist remarks and calls for a coup: French police under investigation

A newspaper has released a video filmed in 2025 by police during a night patrol. The officer behind most of the extremist comments is a former paratrooper with close ties to the far-right National Rally party.

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France's far-right National Rally fires policeman from security team over racist, sexist comments

France's far-right National Rally (RN) has expelled a policeman from its ranks after bodycam footage of him making racist, homophobic and sexist remarks was published on Wednesday. The controversy threatens to revive scrutiny of the party's efforts to distance itself from its extremist past ahead of next year's presidential election.

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Reform insists National Rally agreed migrant policy after backlash in France

Critics say agreement between Nigel Farage and Jordan Bardella to return migrants to France goes against France’s ‘interests and sovereignty’

The Guardian - UK

Chancellor Friedrich Merz: The sick man of Germany?

Good morning. Angela Skujins here, penning this newsletter, where an election in the German region of Saxony-Anhalt — an area unknown to many before Monday — is serving as a dark omen for the country’s embattled leader, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.

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Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy calls air truce as Kushner and Witkoff head for Kyiv via Moscow

Direct hit on SBU headquarters in Kyiv targeted intelligence chief; airline suspends Moscow flights after Zelenskyy warning. What we know on day 1,655

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How France and Britain’s far right are building a populist ‘entente cordiale’

Jordan Bardella will address Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham on Friday, putting the French far-right leader alongside Nigel Farage as both men seek to strengthen their political profiles. The appearance also marks closer ties between two of Europe's most successful populist radical-right parties that share similar positions on immigration…

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Bardella, Faure, Lecornu, Hollande, Philippe: Political season begins in France

Between the 2027 presidential campaign and talks on the next budget, several leading French politicians were out in force on Saturday 29 August.

Euronews

French far-right leader Jordan Bardella to address Reform UK party conference

Speech part of effort to strengthen National Rally party’s international ties before Marine Le Pen’s presidential bid

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen’s career has been resurrected – and she is a bigger threat than ever

No longer banned from next year’s presidential election, Le Pen is a far more formidable force than her understudy, Jordan Bardella, says Mujtaba Rahman of Europe at Eurasia Group

The Guardian - UK

Revamp of French parliament building faces criticism over cost and heritage

Plans to modernise visitor facilities at the French National Assembly have become a battleground, with opponents questioning both the €53 million price tag and the proposed design.

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'Humanitarian emergency' as influx of migrants overwhelms Spanish enclave Ceuta

Some 60,000 migrants entered Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco in the space of 24 hours, between Thursday and Friday, leaving at least 34 dead and prompting France to tighten controls along its border with Spain.

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France freezes assets of controversial Russian commentator Fedorova

France has frozen the assets of pro-Kremlin commentator Xenia Fedorova for six months, the government announced on Friday, adding a financial measure to an expulsion order already issued against her over accusations of spreading Kremlin propaganda on French television and undermining democracy.

The Guardian - UK

Will brutal wildfires force French leaders to take climate crisis seriously?

Campaigners worry politicians will have moved on by time of elections in which Marine Le Pen is expected to challenge

Euronews

'Marine Le Pen is France's last hope', says Musk amid interference claims

In a post on X on Wednesday, Elon Musk backed Marine Le Pen ahead of France’s presidential vote, prompting claims of foreign interference and electoral risk.

The Guardian - UK

Forget being French president; Marine Le Pen is lucky not to be in prison. Why is she in public life at all?

The far right leader’s career is not the issue: it’s whether a politician with her record has a legitimate right to seek office, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo

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The Independent UK

Le Pen has one last chance to win power in France – can she do it with an ankle tag?

IN FOCUS: The far-right leader has defied calls to hand the leadership bid to protege Jordan Bardella despite previously saying she would not run for president with an ankle tag. Experts tell James C. Reynolds that she still faces significant challenges

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‘Politicians have always been schemers’: upheld conviction fails to dent Le Pen’s popularity

Presidential bid by leader of far-right National Rally has no shortage of supporters in scenic Montargis

Radio France Internationale

How appeal court verdict against Le Pen puts her back in the running for 2027

A French appeals court this week upheld Marine Le Pen's conviction for embezzling funds from the European Parliament and sentenced her to house arrest – something the far-right leader previously said would rule her out of France's 2027 presidential race. Yet Le Pen still has one last legal recourse to…

The Guardian - UK

Populism unites Le Pen and Farage. But she is a step closer to power

Marine Le Pen is a convicted criminal. But now she’s running for office and there is still no credible candidate to oppose her, says the academic Catherine Fieschi

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Marine Le Pen’s candidacy: a dangerous gamble

Editorial: The far-right leader has reached for the Trumpian playbook in plotting a possible path to the Élysée. The consequences are alarmingly unpredictable

The Guardian - UK

Marine Le Pen will run for election in 2027. Will she have to wear an electronic tag?

Court clears way for RN leader to be candidate after she was confirmed guilty of overseeing a scheme in which she misused more than €4m

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‘Let the people judge me’: how Marine Le Pen and Nigel Farage learned a potent populist tactic from Donald Trump

The European populist right has been at the top of the political agenda in recent days.

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