After years trying to moderate her party’s image, the far-right leader, convicted of embezzlement, now voices Trump-like ...

A week after Marine Le Pen was found guilty of using European Parliament funds to pay party staff in France, thousands ...

Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken ...

Convicted of embezzling public funds and banned from running for office, far-right politician Marine Le Pen stood unshaken ...

Yvon Castel says he has voted for the far-right National Rally for years, but is less than impressed by the tactics its ...

If Le Pen’s sentencing jolted the French political system, it sent a thunderclap through the nationalist corridors of Europe.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Marine Le Pen denounced a conviction that risks blocking her from the next presidential election as a ...

Prosecutors requested a two-year prison sentence for Ms Le Pen and a five-year period of ineligibility. She said in response that they want her "political death". In a key decision on Friday ...

A Paris prosecutor has sought a five-year prison sentence and a five-year ban from public office for nationalist leader Marine Le Pen in a trial where she and 24 others stand accused of embezzling EU ...

The National Rally (RN), Le Pen's party, organised the event in response to what it calls a ... claiming that this "political decision" had "flouted the rule of law but also the rule of democracy".