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...At a rally attended by about 8,000 activists in Marseille, Le Pen shared the spotlight with her 28-year-old protégé Jordan Bardella, a popular figure who heads her Rassemblement National (RN) party and will...
...Macron’s gambit aims to remind voters of Marine Le Pen’s past proximity to Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, in an attempt to blunt her surge in the polls, where her far-right Rassemblement National party...
...Le Monde reported that Maréchal had worked on the deal for several months with her husband Vincenzo Sofo, a Brothers of Italy MEP, and concluded that it was “bad news” for her aunt, who has been courting...
...The RN has since course-corrected....
...“This is the final piece of her strategy to detoxify her party by banishing its antisemitic past,” he said. “It would be the last dam to break.”...
...The debate comes as the RN has moved into the mainstream of French politics and institutions by winning an unprecedented 88 seats in the National Assembly last year, shortly after Le Pen lost her second...
...“We wanted to pay the loan back as fast as possible,” RN party treasurer Kévin Pfeffer, who is also a deputy in the National Assembly, told the Financial Times....
...She added that her organisation encouraged the UK “not to give in to French injunctions to defend the least defensible fishing of the 21st century: trawling”....
...), as her prime minister....
...Le Pen and her 28-year old lieutenant Jordan Bardella, who heads the RN party, have climbed to the third and fourth spots in polls of the most popular political figures in France....
...To prepare for the campaign, the RN has also been cleaning up old problems: this week it paid back the remaining €6mn on a loan owed to a Russian company, which political opponents have long criticised as...
...Even Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s Rassemblement National, who fancies her chances of winning the French presidency in 2027 thanks to the success of her long-running strategy of dédiabolisation, has...
...That gave Le Pen’s party new legitimacy and furthered her push to “detoxify” the image of the movement started 50 years ago by her father, who has denied the Holocaust and espoused xenophobic ideas....
...“There is a new generation of politicians in the RN who came of age under Marine and not her father,” he said....
...Not only did Le Pen see off Zemmour in April’s presidential race to end up with 41.5 per cent of the vote against President Emmanuel Macron in the runoff, her RN trounced him and his fellow hard-right candidates...
...“The RN shows its true face.” De Fournas was judged by a 22-member panel of parliamentary leaders on Friday, who imposed the maximum penalty of a 15-day suspension and a temporary pay cut....
...RN Trading has left behind a trail of links to Prigozhin’s sanctioned companies....
...lost three times while increasing her score with every campaign....
...The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy (New Political Economy) — We’re wildly underestimating the potential of mobile housing (Sightline Institute) — RNS...
...The ascetic, resolute clarity of Annie Ernaux may offer insight into the human condition, for example, but her memoirs are not obvious sources of portfolio alpha....
...Until a few months ago, 29-year-old Mathilde Hignet spent most of her time doing the bookkeeping for her parents’ apple cider and potato farm in Brittany....
...Yet her loss in the presidential runoff has triggered recriminations over her limitations as a politician and the incoherence of her programme, as well as bringing back lingering questions of whether her...
...Marine Le Pen, when asked whether Macron had made the same proposal to her as leader of the far-right Rassemblement National, said “yes.”...
...Le Pen may choose to snuff out Zemmour and his new movement — which also includes her estranged niece, Marion Maréchal, who was once a rising star of the RN....
...The other thing to look out for is whether US House Speaker Pelosi visits Taiwan this week on her Asian trip....
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