Werner Mueller rebuts arguments against a verdict barring the French far-right leader from the 2027 presidential election.

Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, is barred from running in France’s 2027 presidential election after an embezzlement conviction involving her political party. Roger Cohen, the Paris bureau ...

Why France's industry is failing to break out of recession? French politics appears to be the major impediment.

French authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel ...

Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, was convicted of embezzling EU funds and barred from running for ...

French authorities on Tuesday detained a 76-year-old man over a death threat against the judge who presided over the panel ...

But France lacks the material base to really put that forward on its own.” Another hurdle for Macron’s pro-Europe vision is the rise of his former Euroskeptic presidential rival Marine Le Pen, who is ...

It was a political bombshell. On Monday, 31 March 2025, Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right party Rassemblement National (National Rally) in France, was convicted of misappropriation of public ...

Le Pen was the runner-up in the 2017 and 2022 presidential elections, losing to French President Emmanuel Macron.

France's far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday vowed to pursue her presidential ambitions after she was found guilty of ...

Marine Le Pen’s conviction for embezzlement has thrust France’s National Rally into the spotlight. But beyond the party’s ...

Addressing a defiant crowd at Place Vauban in Paris on Sunday, April 6, Le Pen stood before cheering supporters and French flags, declaring, “I won’t give up” ...