The removal of Marine Le Pen, France's leading opposition politician, confirms a global anti-democratic trend of banning the Right, says Eugyppius. What she was convicted of was nothing unusual in the European Parliament.
Marine Le Pen will not be allowed to stand in France's next Presidential election after being banned from politics for five years in a ruling condemned by Italy's Deputy PM as a "declaration of war by Brussels".
France has been so distracted by keeping out the "far Right" that it failed to see it was letting in a far Left that poses a real threat to the French economy and the survival of the eurozone, says Matthew Lynn.
Here's something the BBC won't tell you: Marine Le Pen's National Rally was the only party to increase its vote share in the second round of the French election, says Nick Rendell.
Le Pen's National Rally won the popular vote in the French election with 37% – higher than the 34% that gave Keir Starmer his UK landslide. But the party came third thanks to being shunned by the Right-wing Republicans.
Left-wing academics view the ‘far right’ the same way early European explorers viewed the native people they encountered – as primitive, dangerous and in need of ‘civilising’.
Marine Le Pen's Right-wing National Rally party has taken a commanding lead in the first round of France's parliamentary elections, bringing it closer to the gates of power than ever before.
