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...political party leader and candidate for the regional elections in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie region, speaks during a news conference in Lille, northern France after the far-right National Front (FN...
...Ms Le Pen and the FN have denied wrongdoing....
...Based in the greater Liège area, FN Herstal is an undisputed giant in the arms market....
...This has political ramifications, too: FN Herstal is completely owned by the Walloon government....
...But the French prime minister, by denouncing as many did before him the FN’s “racism”, is missing the true nature of the threat. Under Marine Le Pen, the FN has transformed itself....
...The FN has denied wrongdoing....
...“This is a moment when the FN is facing two ways,” says Jim Shields, professor of French politics at Aston University....
...The FN leader, I heard, has already modified her opposition to French membership of the EU to concentrate her fire on the euro....
...What Belgium adds to the mix, analysts say, is a long, troubled history of lax gun laws and a pedigree of gun manufacturing, led by FN Herstal in the Wallonia region....
...The FN has been on the rise since Ms Le Pen took over leadership of the party from her father Jean-Marie Le Pen in 2011....
...The feuding has exacerbated policy divisions within the UMP over whether to tack to the right or centre to combat the FN, undermining its ability to confront the populist insurgency....
...The triumph of Marine Le Pen and her FN spreads more poison into French politics than at any time since the 1954-62 Algerian war of independence....
...Without naming the anti-EU FN, he said those who wanted Europe to break up “forget the lessons of history and will lead us to the abyss”....
...start of the FN’s electoral campaign for the European elections....
...growth and immigration with an FN mayor by two journalists from AFP, the French news agency....
...A recent convert from the UMP, he said he will be voting FN at the end of May....
...She says the FN is “popular not populist”....
...It was the best result for the FN since it won three towns in 1995, giving it 1,200 local councillors nationwide....
...The victory of the far-right National Front (FN) in the French elections for the European Parliament is almost as much of a shock in Berlin as it is in Paris....
...The FN result was at the top of even its own most optimistic expectations....
...The FN could win several more towns next Sunday, including Perpignan, a city of 120,000....
...He declared he could not see how the festival could continue under the FN....
...“But if I win it would be an important reverse for the FN nationwide because it would show they cannot win a big city.” That is not how Mr Aliot and the FN leadership see it, however....
...Global sales of the Herstal Group, which has its main subsidiary in South Carolina, amounted to $612m last year, with the Belgian arm, FN Herstal, reporting sales of $224m....
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