With Europe under fire for its lack of support for Ukraine and grappling with the prospect of losing Greenland to President Donald Trump — a shift that could spell the end of NATO — an appeal court in Paris could give the coup de grace to the future of the EU as a bloc, if Marine Le Pen’s appeal against a conviction relating to the embezzlement of European Parliament funds by her party succeeds. It is not only the French far-right firebrand’s political future that hangs in the balance, but also the fate of France’s Fifth Republic and that of Europe, too.