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Demonstrators protest against the high cost of living in Nantes, France, on Oct. 17. Similar demonstrations have spread across other parts of Europe as households grapple with rising prices and economic uncertainty.
EDITORIALS
Oct 23, 2026
France burns as the political center fiddles
The political center in Europe is struggling to offer convincing answers to voters’ economic concerns.
Demonstrators angered over the high cost of living clash with police in Montpellier, France, on Oct. 17.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 22, 2026
Liberte, egalite, misere? Why France is burning
It’s not only France that’s feeling the heat. Anger about inflation, from energy prices to housing costs, has led to clashes in Italy and Portugal.
Marine Le Pen (center), the National Rally candidate for France's 2027 presidential election, attends a news conference with party president Jordan Bardella (right) and lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy in Paris on Oct. 6.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 11, 2026
The French far right embraces austerity
Marine Le Pen is pairing nationalist politics with fiscal austerity, betting that voters will support spending cuts.
French finance chief Roland Lescure (left) with President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 6, 2026
How Macron’s decade in power left France as Europe’s weakest link
French finance chief Roland Lescure is now leading a rearguard action to preserve what’s left of Macronomics and the French president’s legacy.
President of French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) Jordan Bardella speaks to the press in La Seyne-sur-Mer, France, on Sept. 27.
WORLD / Politics
Oct 4, 2026
Future of French far-right star in balance after antisemitism claims
The allegations also surfaced after months of reports of tensions between Bardella and Le Pen.
Members of a local electoral commission empty a ballot box before counting votes in Russia’s parliamentary election in Podolsk, near Moscow, on Sept. 20.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2026
Why Russia’s Potemkin election actually matters
There’s little purpose to parsing who won the vote; the point is that opponents of Putin and his war were jailed, exiled or banned from running.
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner before talks in Moscow on Sept. 5.
COMMENTARY
Sep 11, 2026
The far right’s political victory in Germany is great news for Putin
No one in NATO has any interest in attacking Russia, but these fabrications make for powerful messages and they’re paying dividends for the Kremlin.
Alternative for Germany Party leaders and members celebrate in Magdeburg on Sunday after decisively winning the Saxony-Anhalt state election, though the party is still expected to fall short of an outright majority to form a government.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 9, 2026
Germany is in a very dark place — and time’s running out
The far-right party’s electoral win will further normalize its anti-immigrant agenda and policy of drawing closer to Moscow.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen poses prior to an interview on the evening news broadcast of French TV channel TF1, following the verdict in her appeal trial over misuse of EU funds, in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 8, 2026
France’s Le Pen says still running for president
The statement comes after an appeals court confirmed her embezzlement conviction but paved the way for her to run with a shorter ban from office.
French MP Marine Le Pen, parliamentary leader of the far-right National Rally party, delivers a speech in front of supporters in Lievin, northern France, on Saturday.
WORLD / Politics
Jul 7, 2026
Marine Le Pen’s presidential hopes rest on French court verdict
Marine Le Pen’s presidential hopes have been in ?limbo since March 2025, when she received a five-year ban from public office for embezzling more than �4 million ($4.6 million).
Marine Le Pen speaks during a political rally of the French far-right National Rally political party on May 1. The National Rally has repeatedly voted against measures meant to slow climate change, but is pushing air conditioning with an eye toward next April’s presidential election.
WORLD
Jul 2, 2026
France’s far right pledges 40 million air conditioners as heat turns political
Across Europe air conditioning is a new battleground as officials grapple with how to adapt aging infrastructure to debilitating heat as the climate changes.
Far-right National Rally parliamentary group president Marine Le Pen speaks to the press at the Paris Nord Villepinte exhibition center in Villepinte, northeast of Paris, on April 1.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 14, 2026
U.S. officials underwhelmed by French far-right’s plans for economy
The blow comes amid the National Rally’s efforts to present itself as a credible steward of the euro zone’s No. 2 economy before next year’s election.
Marine Le Pen, leader of French far-right party National Rally, speaks at a campaign event ahead of the mayoral election second round in Chalons En Champ, France, on Wednesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 23, 2026
France’s far right misses key targets in municipal elections
Marine Le Pen and National Rally President Jordan Bardella were seeking to use the regional vote as an opportunity to establish momentum ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
National Rally President Jordan Bardella expressed confidence that his party could attract mainstream voters, as the far-right party hopes to capitalize on local elections to build momentum heading into the 2027 presidential vote.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 16, 2026
French far right leads in Nice, nearing key election victory
The National Rally is seeking to show that far-right appeal is growing in big cities such as Marseille, Nice and Toulon, as well as more rural areas.
A man walks past election posters on the day of the first round of the French mayoral election in Paris on Sunday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 15, 2026
French far right faces early tests in local votes: What to watch
Voters in 35,000 municipalities will choose mayors and councilors in a two-round ballot that typically turns on local issues and personalities rather than national party platforms.
Marine Le Pen arrives at court on Paris on Feb. 10.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 17, 2026
Le Pen’s shadow is falling on ECB job succession to Lagarde
In the race to succeed Christine Lagarde, the question of when leaders choose the next European Central Bank president is looming almost as large as who they pick.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen leaves the Paris courthouse after a hearing during which prosecutors presented their sentencing request in her appeal trial over the misuse of European Union funds, on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Feb 4, 2026
French prosecutors seek public office ban for Le Pen over misuse of EU funds
They told an appeals court this should ?not be enforced immediately.
President of the parliamentary group of the French far-right National Rally party, Marine Le Pen arrives for a hearing in her appeal trial on suspicion of embezzlement of European public funds, at Paris courthouse, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jan 14, 2026
Le Pen denies any sense she might have committed a crime over EU funds
The French far-right leader struck a conciliatory tone in court, saying “if any fault was indeed committed” she and her party were never aware they might be crossing a line.
Jordan Bardella, president of the French far-right National Rally political party, and French far-right leader Marine Le Pen talk to journalists in Paris on Sept. 2, 2025.
WORLD / Politics
Jan 12, 2026
Marine Le Pen’s political fate hangs in the balance as French appeal begins
The far-right leader had been barred from public office over a conviction for misusing EU funds.
Jordan Bardella and Marine Le Pen leave after a meeting with the French prime minister at the Hotel Matignon in Paris on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Sep 4, 2025
French far-right accelerates recruitment drive with Macron government on brink
The far-right party is betting Emmanuel Macron’s only path out of France’s latest budget crisis will be to dissolve its deeply divided parliament.

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