What does Marine Le Pen’s conviction mean for France and Europe?

The condemnation of Marine Le Pen turns Italy into the thermometer of the cracks in the European right. If a political earthquake has broken out in France, in Italy Giorgia Meloni’s coalition of government has reacted with a chorus of discordant voices. Each partner of the majority – Italy’s brothers, the League and Forza Italy – has criticized the sentence in its own way, exposing its deep divisions. The Italian Prime Minister chose a calculate…

Marine Le Pen’s Trump-style defiance over her conviction leaves France and its far right in a bind

Marine Le Pen has been a superstar of Europe’s far-right movement until a spectacular court ruling banned her from running for the French presidency in 2027.

After the condemnation of Marine Le Pen, the President of the Republic spoke on the subject this Wednesday, 2 April in the Council of Ministers.

Silent since the court's decision on Monday, the President of the Republic reacted to the political earthquake caused by the judgement against the Chief of the RN Deputies on the occasion of the Council of Ministers.

It was, for her, a business lunch like any other. I had been careful to choose a good table and, above all, a place that invites to serenity. The innkeeper, of wick, had planned everything: a large room, isolated, on the floor of her establishment. When Amphytrite du Halga left her strange cone in her bag, at the beginning of the meal, it was a whole oppressive existence that suddenly was cut off. For a few hours, the time of a modest supper, th…

What Marine Le Pen’s Conviction Means for French Democracy

Isaac Chotiner interviews Cécile Alduy, a professor of French studies at Stanford and an expert on the French far right, about Marine Le Pen being found guilty of embezzlement.