Tag: Marine Le Pen

Friday, April 29th 2016 - 06:27 UTC
''Vote Leave'' Chair says leaving the EU will not affect UK protection of Overseas Territories

Withdrawal from the European Union will not affect the protection the UK provides for its overseas territories, the chair of Vote Leave, Gisela Stuart, has told MPs in the House of Commons.
Monday, December 14th 2015 - 07:07 UTC
Sarkozy conservatives take the day beating Le Pen's National Front

Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front failed to take a single region during the runoff of regional elections after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The conservatives of former president Nicolas Sarkozy surged against the governing Socialists, changing the political map of France.
Monday, December 7th 2015 - 08:19 UTC
France's far right National Front with record gains in regional elections

France's far-right National Front (FN) saw record gains in the first round of regional polls on Sunday, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris. Despite the strong result, it faces an uphill battle to clinch a run-off vote next week after Socialists withdrew candidates to block it from power.
Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC
French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed.
Friday, January 9th 2015 - 06:59 UTC
Charlie Hebdo plans to publish a million copies on next week's edition

Charlie Hebdo, the controversial French magazine that was the target of a deadly attack on Wednesday will publish a million copies on next week's edition, compared to its usual print run of 60,000, its lawyer Richard Malka announced.
Thursday, January 8th 2015 - 05:21 UTC
Fears in Europe of violent retaliation and Islamophobia following Paris killings

The terror attack that killed 12 people in Paris on Wednesday will have come as little surprise to Europe's police and intelligence services. For months, they've regarded the prospect of a mass killing in Europe by isolated gunmen or small groups of Islamist terrorists as a question of when rather than if.
Monday, September 29th 2014 - 08:33 UTC
French far-right won its first ever seats in the country's Senate

The far-right National Front won its first ever seats in France's upper house of parliament, as President Francois Hollande's Socialist party lost its Senate majority. The left still controls the lower house, which is the dominant legislative body in France, but Sunday's ballot underlined the unpopularity of the president and the continued rise of the anti-immigration, anti-Euro National Front.
Monday, May 26th 2014 - 07:43 UTC
Marie Le Pen European victory rattles France; calls for dissolution of national assembly

France suffered a political earthquake on Sunday as the far-right National Front (FN) topped the polls in European elections with an unprecedented haul of one in every four votes cast, exit polls indicated.
Monday, March 31st 2014 - 15:53 UTC
“Black Sunday” for French Socialists, although they managed to retain Paris

French President Francois Hollande is set to take the axe to his beleaguered government after it suffered humiliating losses in local elections in which the far-right National Front (FN) made historic gains.
Tuesday, March 25th 2014 - 09:30 UTC
Despite backlash from the extreme right, France will stick to economic reforms, says minister

President Francois Hollande's government will stick to planned economic reforms and spending cuts despite being punished in local elections where the anti-immigrant National Front (FN) made gains, the French finance minister said on Monday.