PARIS (AP) — Extremism concerns shook France’s presidential campaign Tuesday as authorities announced arrests in what they said was a thwarted attack and candidates urged tougher counterterrorism efforts for a country already under a state of emergency.
HAYANGE, France (AP) — Two things now grow around the rusting carcasses of the last blast furnaces in this French steel town: weeds, and votes for populist Marine Le Pen.
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has criticised the Pope for pressuring Western countries to open their borders to migrants, accusing him of asking states to disregard their own citizens.
Marine Le Pen has pledged to suspend France’s membership of the European Union’s borderless Schengen area immediately if she is elected to the presidency, and deport all foreign nationals on the republic’s Islamist watch list.
Top eurocrats fear that should Marine Le Pen win the French presidency, the European Union will not survive. “From the [European] Commission’s point of view, success for Marine Le Pen is a disaster and an existential threat to the European
LA FERTÉ-SAINT-AUBIN (FRANCE) (AFP) – Having a flutter on the horses in his local bar, Eric Belouet picks his favourites without hesitation. But when it comes to France’s presidential election, he can’t make up his mind.
French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has urged Russia and the West to join forces against terrorism during a visit to Moscow, after ISIS claimed responsibility for an attack which killed six men in Chechnya. According to German state broadcaster
Marine Le Pen, the populist frontrunner in the first round of France’s upcoming presidential elections, struck a combative pose in a March 20th candidates’ debate, vowing to control immigration, tame the European Union, and put France first.
Algerian flags mingled with Antifa banners as migrants and left wing extremists gathered on the streets of Paris to attack police and protest deportations in a “March for Justice and Dignity”.
The president of the European Commission has said Britain will be treated like a “third country” after Brexit and the divorce will be so bad for the UK it will deter all other states from leaving the bloc.
French presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen has denounced threats by Emmanuel Macron and others to get rid of British border checks in Calais, calling for strong French borders instead.
PARIS (AFP) – French presidential candidate Francois Fillon on Monday defended his radical economic plan and proposed a measure to clean up politics, two days before a key meeting with judges investigating him over a fake jobs scandal.
Marine Le Pen is supported by a quarter of young voters in France, a poll suggests, the same proportion as her centrist, liberal rival Emmanuel Macron.
PARIS (AP) — France’s ambassador to Japan has said publicly that he would refuse to serve as a diplomat if Marine Le Pen were elected president.
PARIS (AP) — French conservative candidate Francois Fillon has unveiled new senior positions in his campaign team following the resignation of some members last week amid a corruption allegations scandal.
PARIS (AP) — The once promising presidential bid of French conservative Francois Fillon, already seriously hobbled by pending corruption charges, was coming unraveled Friday with the resignation of his campaign director and his campaign spokesman, adding momentum to a stream of defections and panicking his party.
(AP) – French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen envisions the protective hand of the state guiding a reordered economy that punishes companies that fail to serve the interests of the nation and rewards those that put France first.
Conservative candidate Francois Fillon refused to quit France’s roller-coaster presidential race Wednesday despite receiving a summons to face charges of faking government-paid parliamentary jobs for his family.
Google and Facebook will be working with the mainstream media to tell voters “what and who to trust”, including “memes, comment threads and news sites”, in the lead up to the French elections.
Senior politicians and commentators have conceded that Marine Le Pen may win the French presidential elections in May.
PARIS (AP) – Demonstrators in western France have tried to block buses carrying supporters of presidential candidate Marine Le Pen to a campaign rally. The incident Sunday in the city of Nantes came after 11 police officers were injured Saturday
PARIS (AP) — A contractor for France’s National Front party who’s close to presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has been handed preliminary charges in an investigation into the financing of political campaigns in 2014 and 2015.
PARIS (AP) — The French financial prosecutor’s office decided Friday to open a judicial inquiry surrounding the allegedly fake parliamentary aide jobs that conservative presidential candidate Francois Fillon gave to his wife and two of his children, pushing the case to a higher and riskier level for the man hoping to become the next president of France.
Marine Le Pen, the frontrunner in the first round of France’s upcoming presidential elections, has declared it is “time do away” with the European Union (EU), which has become a “bureaucratic monster”. According to EU Observer, the Front National leader
Hooded youths armed with flares are mingling with crowds of so-called “protestors” in Paris, blockading schools with burning rubbish bins and assorted debris. Reports indicate that over a dozen schools have been shut down, with a school district spokesman admitting
PARIS (AFP) – Thousands demonstrated in Paris and other French cities Sunday to protest corruption, taking aim specifically at presidential candidates Francois Fillon and Marine Le Pen, both accused of misusing public funds.
The former president of the European Parliament, now vying to be Germany’s next chancellor, has said populism is a “virus” that “could lead to the end of the European Union” (EU).
Experts in LGB (lesbian, gay and bisexual) French politics have said there is no longer a “taboo” around gays voicing nationalistic, anti-immigrant views, as polls show their support for the Front National growing steadily.
PARIS (AP) — In Donald Trump, Europe’s populist leaders think they have found a champion.
SABLE-SUR-SARTHE, France (AP) — An upstanding family man, untainted by scandal, a committed Catholic from rural western France – Francois Fillon won the conservative presidential primary and shot to the top of opinion polls in large part on his irreproachable reputation. In just over a week, his chances of winning France’s presidency have nosedived amid a string of allegations that he’s not what he painted himself to be.
A representative of France’s populist Front National party has said if their leader, Marine Le Pen, becomes president she could consider emulating the U.S. president’s restrictions on immigration from terror-linked states.
Marine Le Pen will win the first round of voting in this year’s French presidential election, a shock poll has revealed.
PARIS (AP) — French presidential candidate Francois Fillon said Thursday he would step out of the race if he were given preliminary charges by national financial prosecutors investigating an allegedly fake job held by his wife.
Paris (AFP) – The British-born wife of French presidential candidate Francois Fillon was paid around 500,000 euros ($538,000) over nearly a decade out of parliamentary funds, a satirical weekly reported Wednesday.
PARIS (AFP) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen pledged Friday if elected president she would campaign for France to leave the EU if Brussels fails to surrender control over national borders, law-making and economic and monetary policy.
PARIS (AFP) – French far-right leader Marine Le Pen proposed Thursday that the children of illegal immigrants should be refused school places as part of tough proposals to restrict public services.
PARIS (AP) — French conservatives on Sunday are choosing their nominee for next year’s vital presidential election from among two former prime ministers with deep experience in government and differing views on how to prevent more terror attacks on French soil.
Front National leader Marine Le Pen has taken a substantial lead in the latest French presidential election poll, eight points ahead of her nearest rival. Le Pen secured the support of 29 percent of those surveyed by Ipsos, placing her
The leader of France’s right wing Front National party has said she wants a British-style renegotiation with the European Union (EU) regarding immigration and financial integration. “We will enter into negotiations with the European Union over the euro and Schengen. That’s exactly what
(AFP) – A French financial body said Monday it had alerted prosecutors to the “undervalued” assets declaration of far-right National Front leader Marine Le Pen and her father Jean-Marie. “There is a serious doubt about the comprehensiveness, accuracy and sincerity
