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Macron, Le Pen win first round of French presidential election

The result is a stinging defeat for the centre-right and Socialist parties that had dominated French politics for 60 years.

France

Elated Le Pen supporters brace for runoff

Supporters of National Front leader Marine Le Pen were elated to see her qualify for the May 7 presidential run-off against centrist Emmanuel Macron.

France

Macron and Le Pen through to French election run-off

Centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right candidate Marine Le Pen will go head-to-head in the second round of the French elections.

France

Marine Le Pen polishes up the FN for Élysée assault

Marine Le Pen ditches the rants and turns on the charm

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Euroviews. The EU must prepare itself for President Le Pen in France

After the UK's unexpected vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump’s unexpected triumph in the US presidential election last year, you might imagine that EU leaders have developed detailed contingency plans for a victory by the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential election.

World

How the FN makes a small town its own - the French far-right puts down new roots

France's far-right Front National appears stronger than ever. How to explain its success, and how much, if at all, has the party improved its past, often rabid image? More importantly, has Marine Le P

France

France's unpredictable presidential race enters its final days

Latest polls make the outcome incalculable. While centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right contender Marine Le Pen retain the top spots, there is barely a percentage point between them.

Europe News

French judges push for Le Pen to be stripped of immunity

French judges probing Marine Le Pen’s alleged misuse of EU funds to pay for party assistants, are pushing for her European parliamentary immunity to be lifted.

France

France: National Front Paris HQ hit by arson attack

The Paris headquarters of France’s far-right National Front was hit by a suspected arson attack on Thursday.

France

Financial scandals of Marine Le Pen and French politics

Marine Le Pen’s presidential campaign has been carefully coordinated and tightly controlled but she, like many of her political rivals, has fallen foul of…

France

Google Maps puts Marine Le Pen in the Elysee Palace

The French presidential elections will soon get underway.

France

Far-right, fake jobs and all you need to know about France's pivotal election

If the main course is anything like the entrée, then France is set for even more controversy at the ballot box.

France

Second French presidential debate turns into a feisty affair

For the first time 11 candidates in the French presidential election have gone head-to head in a televised debate.

France

Euroviews. View: Is Emmanuel Macron the new Napoleon Bonaparte of France?

Russia

'We’re not trying to influence events', Putin tells Le Pen

The Russian president granted an audience to French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen in Moscow

France

The most unpredictable election in French history?

A month before the first round of France's presidential election, polls suggest 43 percent of voters have still not made up their minds about who to vote for.

France

Euroviews. Le Pen and Macron: same words but different meanings

With Le Pen, we have a vision that based on a specific idea of the past in need of restoration and which is based on the denunciation of negatively perceived changes in need of removal.

France

And the winner is? Macron tops polls after French presidential debate

There were no knockout blows in France’s first presidential TV debate.

France

11 candidates to contest French presidential election

The race to become France’s next president has officially begun after the definitive list of candidates was published.

Cinema

'This Is Our Land' focuses on manipulative ways of a fictional French far-right party

Lucas Belvaux's 'Chez Nous' has angered the French far-right Front National for its portrayal of a ruthless, manipulative fictional far-right party.