Le Pen’s Embezzlement Charges and What They Mean for France’s Democracy
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Le Pen’s Embezzlement Charges and What They Mean for France’s Democracy

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Last year, Marine Le Pen spoke menacingly of the possible fallout from her trial on embezzlement charges. “Tomorrow, potentially, millions and millions of French people will see themselves deprived of their candidate for the presidency.” After a court disqualified her on Monday from…

Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling
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Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday and immediately barred from running for public office for five years, setting off a democratic crisis in France. The verdict effectively barred the…

Marine Le Pen Barred From French Presidential Run After Embezzlement Ruling
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Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement by French Court

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was found guilty of embezzlement by a criminal court in Paris on Monday, jeopardizing her plans to compete in France’s 2027 presidential election. The verdict was a major blow to the perennial presidential ambitions of Ms….

Opinion | France Is in a Deep, Deep Hole
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Opinion | France Is in a Deep, Deep Hole

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines François Bayrou, France’s fourth prime minister in a year, knew he had trouble ahead. In his inaugural speech in December, he acknowledged “all kinds of difficulties”: a debt mountain, political strife and, alarmingly, “the splintering of society itself.” So far, he’s at least…

Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
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Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap the nations with tariffs. Even parties that would seem to be his natural allies are nervous. Some have quietly tiptoed…

Citizenship by Birthright? By Bloodline? Migration Is Complicating Both.
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Citizenship by Birthright? By Bloodline? Migration Is Complicating Both.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For two summers during high school, instead of joining her classmates at the beach, Noura Ghazoui had an internship at the town hall of her hometown, Borghetto Santo Spirito, on the Ligurian coast. But when she tried to apply for a job there…

Jean-Marie Le Pen Is Laid to Rest in France. The Dispute Over His Legacy Endures.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen Is Laid to Rest in France. The Dispute Over His Legacy Endures.

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Hundreds of mourners flocked to Paris’s venerable Val-de-Grâce church on Thursday to pay their final respects to Jean-Marie Le Pen, the architect of France’s modern far-right movement who was known for his racist and antisemitic remarks. A speaker at the requiem Mass praised…

France Far-Right Party Embraces Jean-Marie Le Pen as a Visionary
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France Far-Right Party Embraces Jean-Marie Le Pen as a Visionary

ByNews Polite

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For years, France’s main far-right party tried to distance itself from the long trail of inflammatory and derogatory comments made by Jean-Marie Le Pen, its founding president. His daughter, who took the party reins in 2011, kicked him out. It changed its name,…