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Issued on: 16/10/2019 - 18:36Modified: 17/10/2019 - 09:20 Two French supermarket chains came under fire Wednesday after a lawmaker staged raid...

Date created : 09/01/2019 - 07:51 The official appointed by the French govement to lead a national debate over the grievances raised by so-called “Yellow Vest” protesters quit on Tuesday following ...

A French appeals court has upheld the far-right National Front's (FN) decision to expel party founder Jean-Marie Le Pen over anti-Semitic remarks on Friday, but the party’s bid to cut all links with the notorious politician suffered a setback. The appeals court in Versailles ruled that while the FN had been within its rights to boot 89-year-old Jean-Marie Le Pen out of the party over controversial remarks about the Holocaust, he could retain the honorary role of party president for life. However, there could be a further sting for the man who for decades embodied France's anti-immigrant far-right.The party may eliminate the president-for-life position at a congress next month, b...

Deadly clashes in the West Bank over US Jerusalem move European states call for US peace proposals for the Middle East ...

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Europe © AFP Archive | Marine Le Pen, leader of France's right-wing National Front party Text by NEWS WIRES Latest update : 2017-06-30 French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was charged Friday over claims her party illegally claimed millions of euros from the European Parliament to pay for France...

Marine Le Pen should step down as leader of France’s far-right National Front (FN) after disappointing results in the presidential and parliamentary elections, her father who founded the anti-establishment party said on Tuesday. “You outlive your usefulness when you start harming your party by your ...

The far-right National Front has touted itself as “France’s top party” since Marine Le Pen took over its leadership in 2011, and racked up steady gains and glittering first-round scores nationally in consecutive elections. No longer. The first round of the legislative elections last Sunday was a cle...

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French centrist Emmanuel Macron sought to establish his presidential credentials on Thursday by calling for inteational military intervention against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he is proved to have used chemical weapons.The former economy minister is favourite to win France’s presidential...

Hoping to squeeze out foreign workers and reap electoral rewards, a number of French regions have passed a controversial rule obliging workers on building sites to speak the language of Molière.At first glance, it looks like another of those exquisitely Gallic rows over the spelling of “oignon”, or ...

A French mayor who is a member of France’s right-wing eurosceptic National Front party has renamed a street in his town “rue de Brexit”, meant as a “homage” to Britain's decision to leave the European Union in June. Mayor Julien Sanchez called his decision to rename the street in the southe French town of Beaucaire a “homage to the sovereign British people’s decision" to reject the European Union in a June 23 referendum. A member of Marine Le Pen’s eurosceptic National Front party, Sanchez aounced the move via Twitter. He included a document showing the Beaucaire city council’s 23-to-9 vote in favour of the decision, dated December 22. The decision can be contested before the administrativ...

Hundreds of police officers converged on the National Assembly in central Paris on Wednesday to protest an ever-increasing workload, outdated equipment and rules restricting their ability to defend themselves. The protest follows almost 10 days of nightly demonstrations in cities across France, spontaneously organised on social media by officers who view both the govement and the police hierarchy as “out of touch”. At the end of the day’s protest, the govement promised an extra €250 million, and a review of officers’ rights to defend themselves when under attack. Earlier, a small group of protesting officers, off duty from their normal beat in Versailles, told FRANCE 24 they were “at the end...

The bitter public feud between French far-right firebrand Jean-Marie Le Pen and his daughter Marine entered a fourth round on Wednesday, as the elderly provocateur retued to court to try to overtu his ouster from the National Front (FN). The FN's 88-year-old founder was last year kicked out of the party now led by his daughter for making a string of inflammatory comments. The elder Le Pen had repeatedly defied his daughter's attempt to purge the party of the extremist taint he had bequeathed. The final straw came when he reiterated his view that the Nazi gas chambers were a mere "detail" of history. Marine Le Pen, who has her eye on the French presidency in next year's elections, openly spli...