Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio met a senior 'yellow vest' figure on Tuesday. Jean-Luc Melenchon and Marine Le Pen have also tried to align their parties with the grassroots campaign.

Marine Le Pen’s party moves ahead of Emmanuel Macron’s as French far-right parties gain a combined 30% share of voting intentions.

Far right leaders meet: Italian deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini and France's Marine Le Pen held a press conference saying there must be an alternative Europe and that EU commission president Jean-Claude Junker and economic minister Pierre Moscovici - are enemies of Europe

The far-right French politician is under investigation for sharing images of atrocities carried out by the Islamic State jihadist group.

The gap between the European streets and the corridors of Brussels condemns the EU to remain a scapegoat for everyone to blame when something does not work. The only way to break such an impasse is for politics to become European and eventually offer the democratic legitimacy the EU needs.

The leader of France’s far-right National Rally (Rassemblement national) party has slammed court judges after they ordered that it could not receive €2m in public funding.

A great deal and not much, says an expert in French politics from Sciences Po Lyon.

Marine Le Pen may not be able to rename the Front National "Rassemblement national" after all.

A Twitter video appears to show Davy Rodriguez uttering a racist insult outside a bar in Lille. He denies making the remarks.

French far right leader Marine Le Pen said the old name was a "psychological barrier" for voters.