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Viktor Orban (third right) celebrates his party’s election victory. Photograph: Akos Stiller/Bloomberg
Triumphant Orban to continue Hungary’s migration and NGO crackdown

Hungary’s government is set to continue its battle with the European Union over migration and with liberal civil society groups at home, after prime m(...)

Steve Bannon, former adviser to president Donald Trump, and Marine Le Pen, president of France’s far-right party Front National (FN), giving a joint press conference during the FN party annual congress on March 10th in Lille. Photograph: Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images
Fintan O'Toole: The populism of the far right is utterly phoney

‘History”, Steve Bannon told the far-right National Front in Lille last week, “is on our side and will bring us victory . . . Every day we become stro(...)

Front National president Marine Le Pen: her far-right father says a proposed new party name “brings nothing new” and accuses her of “lacking imagination”. Photograph: Thibault Vandermersch
Front National name change adds to Marine Le Pen’s woes

The extreme right-wing leader Marine Le Pen hoped to restore her party’s flagging fortunes when she announced on Sunday that she was changing its name(...)

Front National leader Marine Le Pen won a small but useful victory at the weekend when members endorsed her plan to change the party’s name. Photograph: Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty Images
The Front National’s cosmetic rebranding

In securing members’ approval for her proposal to change the party’s name, Front National leader Marine Le Pen won a small but useful victory. After h(...)

Front National president Marine Le Pen and former Trump advisor Steve Bannon give a joint press conference during the French far-right party’s annual congress in Lille, north of France. Photograph: Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images
Le Pen hopes to rally support with party’s name-change

Marine Le Pen is changing the name of her extreme right-wing party from Front National to Rassemblement National or National Rally. Le Pen explained (...)

Jean-Marie Le Pen has had his ties with the far right party he founded, the National Front, severed. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters.
National Front severs ties with founder Jean-Marie Le Pen
  • Europe
  • March 11, 2018, 13:05

France’s far-right National Front party has confirmed it has severed its ties to firebrand founder Jean-Marie Le Pen as it tries to revive its fortune(...)

The Promo and Destock store, a French kosher grocery store in Créteil, south of Paris, after it was destroyed in an arson attack. Photograph: Alain Jocard/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-Semitism is on the march across Europe

The Front National is about to depart the French political scene. When members of the far-right party gather in Lille for their annual congress today,(...)

Jean-Marie Le Pen’s memoirs are a journey into France’s tormented history, particularly the second World War and decolonisation. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters
Jean-Marie Le Pen: Self-portrait of a vulgar but at times erudite politician

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the grand-daddy of extreme right-wing movements in Europe, published the first, 400-page volume of his memoirs on March 1st. It is (...)

Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right Front National party leader. Photograph: Pascal Rossignol/Reuters
French judge steps up Le Pen inquiry over Islamic State tweets

France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen was on Thursday placed under formal investigation on suspicion of disseminating violent images over tweets she(...)

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen during the 18 Conservative Political Action Conference in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Thursday. She praised President Donald Trump and lambasted the Front National’s traditional bugbears, the EU and Islam. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images
Marion Maréchal Le Pen gets warm welcome from US right wing

Marion Maréchal Le Pen was cheered at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland on Thursday, signalling a new acceptance of the French (...)

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