The far-right MP, sentenced initially to four years in prison and five years of ineligibility in the case involving fake jobs for assistants to MEPs, has stopped proclaiming her innocence. She now admits she may have inadvertently committed an offense, while arguing that the European Parliament failed to raise the alarm.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is back in court on Tuesday to appeal her embezzlement conviction, with the verdict to determine whether she is eligible to run in the 2027…

OP-ED. In the ideological battle that followed the conviction of the president of the far-right Rassemblement National, the very future of French democracy is at stake, writes…