Marine Le Pen
The kids are alt right
A populist surge across Europe is being fuelled by young people sick of broken promises, stagnant wages and waning hope. How can Keir Starmer respond?
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Macron and Le Pen squabble among the ruins of Mayotte
The next battleground for the French president and Rassemblement National’s leader is the cyclone-hit, French-owned archipelago in the Indian Ocean
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The trials and triumphs of Madame Le Trump
Marine Le Pen stands accused of risking her country’s stability to keep herself out of jail. Sound familiar?
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How Barnier’s fall shows Farage is wrong about the NHS
Reform’s leader has been touting a French-style health system that is coming under increasing pressure
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Le Pen and Mélenchon’s Lewis Carroll politics
Barnier’s budget was relatively mild - but Tweedledee and Tweedledum said he had to go
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France, state of delusion
Ridiculous borrowing, impossible promises and an unwillingness to face reality have led to budget deadlock and talk of a Greek-style financial crisis
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The French left is missing its moment
Days after those election gains, squabbling over PM candidates makes it look as dysfunctional as ever
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How Putin lost the French election
Le Pen’s party is packed with Russia supporters – no wonder the Kremlin’s disinformation machine supported her
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Britain sets an example to France
There is an undeniable note of envy that cuts through the French coverage of the UK election
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Joy and delusion in France
Most of France celebrated the defeat of Marine Le Pen last Sunday. But the price of victory will be chaos
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Taking a moment to enjoy political victories
Politics doesn’t always go your way, so it’s important to drink it in when it does
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I left Britain for France after Brexit. So what now?
Le Pen and Bardella are the stuff of 2016 nightmares
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French elections: Le Pen’s march on power
Marine Le Pen’s clear win underscores her party’s achievement of making a duplicitous surface-level transformation to voters
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French politics burns in the summer heat
In Nice, a stronghold of the French hard right, the racial and political tensions simmer
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A bloc to block France’s extremists
As Marine Le Pen’s extreme right party creeps ever further ahead of its rivals, a new democratic collective has emerged
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France’s week of political psychosis
Macron’s snap election call has triggered turmoil across the country as parties rush to form alliances in time for June 30
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Will France vote for Europe?
Some French voters have forgotten what the EU is really for
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Who leads the European hard right: Meloni or Le Pen?
A leadership contest between the two is emerging. Each wants to become the great figurehead of the nationalist right in Europe
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Turning right
The populist right is on the rise and it's deeply nostalgic
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Le Pen’s slogans may have changed… her heart has not
The rebranded right wing presidential candidate is not what she pretends
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The French elections reveal liberal values under threat
After winning the first round of voting in the presidential elections by only a small margin, Emmanuel Macron has just two weeks to pull voters back from the brink of extremism