Marine Le Pen

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party is rising in popularity ahead of next year’s election

Right-wing politicians call for end of the ‘dogma of the open border’

Rocked by mass protests and record-low approval ratings, France’s youngest leader since Napoleon faces electoral oblivion

Snapshot of polls suggest anti-EU parties will grow by more than 60% at next May’s election

France’s far-right may become National Rally as part of makeover ahead of 2019 election

Radical move may isolate Marine Le Pen from grass roots of far-right French party

The French far-right leader is furious after her Front National and personal bank accounts were closed

Europe 'breathes sigh of relief' as far-right is defeated, but new president must lead a deeply divided France

As France prepares to choose its next president, The Week reviews the merits of its two-round voting system

Six police officers injured following confrontation with 150 'professional vandals' armed with Molotov cocktails

Experts divided on how sustainable the boost to market sentiment will prove to be

French presidential candidate temporarily distances herself from far-right party as campaigning for second-round of voting begins

Outsider tipped to beat Marine Le Pen in battle for France's political soul

The leader of the En Marche! political movement is now poised as France's next president

As the candidates meet tonight for a televised debate, we look at the main players and what they stand for

Netherlands was a 'litmus test', but France will be the 'bellweather election', say commentators

Republican presidential candidate 'throws down the gauntlet' to party leaders at mass rally in Paris

European parliament takes vote on National Front leader's tweets of Islamic State violence

Far-right candidate attacks radical Islam and globalisation during campaign rally in Lyon

Centre-right candidate expected to face National Front leader Marine Le Pen in next year's presidential campaign

Caution urged at festivals and markets as France arrests seven in anti-terror raids in Strasbourg and Marseilles

Ruling Socialists withdraw candidates to help defeat Front National

Far-right family feud deepens as the National Front's patriarch is suspended from the party he founded

Leader of the Front National tells the Oxford Union it is time to stop free movement of jihadists

Russia has also reportedly lent money to Greece’s neofascist Golden Dawn, Italy’s Northern League and other anti-Europe parties

With Marine Le Pen threatening to beat Hollande, John Gaffney gives a cautious welcome to Sarkozy

As Marine Le Pen tries to exploit the Front National's success at the polls, her father does it again…

The former PM, a pro-European to his manicured fingertips, appears to make a pitch for the job

Some crumbs of comfort for those who can't believe the French really admire the National Front

Has France's Front National really changed? Or does Jean-Marie Le Pen speak for its members?

Spat comes as founder of Ukip calls Farage a ‘dim, racist alcoholic’

Brits are not Islamaphobic on the whole – so what are those with homes in France to make of the FN?

'As a strictly non-racist and libertarian party, Ukip will be ploughing our own furrow,' insists Farage