Search results
Oct 2, 2024 · Marine Le Pen and other senior figures within France’s far-right National Rally party are standing trial on charges of having embezzled millions in European Parliament funds to finance the...
Apr 16, 2015 · A pioneering textual analysis of French political speeches led by Stanford Professor of French Cécile Alduy reveals how Marine Le Pen, leader of France's surging far-right National Front, has ...
- Frexit
- Heavy Hand of The Law
- ‘Intelligent Protectionism’
- Family Life
- French Pride
- A Nationalist Shade of Green
- The Candidate
The very first promise in Le Pen’s manifesto is a “Frexit” referendum on the country’s membership of the European Union, and major institutional reform. She envisages a recentralised, presidential regime, where a reform of Article 11 of the constitution would give the president much greater scope to consult the electorate directly, by referendum an...
To make France safer, Le Pen intends to recruit 15,000 law enforcement officers and to establish a presumption of legitimate defence for the police. This may not mean much in practice but is clearly intended to let the police know that they can expect support, at least in the first instance, from the state in cases of, for example, brutality. There...
France’s prosperity, Le Pen argues, depends on ending globalisation and replacing free trade with “a new patriotic model” of “intelligent protectionism” that will radically reduce unemployment. Globalisation will be tackled with state-led re-industrialisation. Expanding on the document, Le Pen has explained that she would, for example, use tariffs ...
To obviate the need for migrant labour, the state will pursue a policy of promoting the birth rate among French families and help to reduce the cost of living with special allowances for low-income families. With no cheap supply of migrant labour and French industries repatriated and protected, the virtuous circle, as Le Pen describes it, will be c...
To restore French prestige, the military will take on 50,000 new recruits and the defence budget will be significantly increased. Most importantly, France will leave NATO. The requirement to protect France’s cultural and historical heritage will be written into the constitution. Furthermore, the “national story”, an official version of French histo...
Under the heading of sustainability, Le Pen focuses on replacing the EU’s common agricultural policywith a French version and encouraging local chains of supply and consumption as a practical form of environmentalism. To address France’s massive power generation deficit, she intends to keep nuclear reactors and boost renewables, but not wind power....
On the face of it, there are not many surprises in Le Pen’s programme. That her vision for the future of France involves pulling down the shutters is not a scoop. Students of far-right movements in other countries might be surprised, however, at just how much “big government” will be involved in her policies. But this is France, and the state remai...
Aug 21, 2024 · The Man Who Saved France From Marine Le Pen Raphael Glucksmann spoke with The New Republic about how he helped keep the far-right out of power—and his leftist vision for the country’s future.
A Faithful Man (French: L'Homme fidèle) is a 2018 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by Louis Garrel, from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière. It stars Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp, Joseph Engel and Garrel.
Le Pen focused on perceived threats against French life: "Islamification", globalisation, the EU and the euro. She came a creditable third in the 2012 presidential election.
People also ask
Who is Marine Le Pen?
What did Le Pen do for France?
Did Marine Le Pen take France's national rally?
What happens if Le Pen is convicted?
Who is Jean-Marie Le Pen?
Why did Jean-Marie Le Pen resign?
Jul 6, 2024 · About 90 per cent identify LFI as the culprit and 57 per cent say they would leave France if Mélenchon’s party were to govern. Only 30 per cent say they would do so if the RN came to power ...
