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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
TopicMarine Le Pen

Topic: Marine Le Pen

Does history even have a sell-by date & wolf in dragon’s clothing

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

French court convicts National Rally chief Le Pen of EU fund misuse, raising 2027 election ban threat

Marine Le Pen and other RN workers were accused of misusing EU funds for party staff. They denied wrongdoing, arguing the money was used legitimately and the charges were too narrow.

France’s National Rally party to lead new right-wing alliance at EU parliament

Marine Le Pen's far-right RN joined the 'Patriots for Europe' alliance Monday, a day after it finished third in French National Assembly elections, crushing its ambitions of ruling France.

France plunges into uncertainty. Far-Right surge stymied, Left in pole position, all eyes on Macron

The snap elections called by Macron have seen three distinct blocs emerge in the French National Assembly — the Left, his Centre and the Far-Right. None has a governing majority.

Snap polls in France, shock defeat in Germany as Far Right surges in European elections

Results project gain in seats for Centre-Right parties across Europe, while Centre-Left holds. The projected results indicate a crushing defeat for green parties and European liberals.

Marine Le Pen to ‘malignant manicheism’ — how science can help us understand populism

History shows that claiming to act on behalf of the 'people' doesn’t necessarily make it so. In fact, it has often led to despotism and suffering.

Macron winning second term in France is politically & historically significant. Here’s why

One of only 4 presidents to be re-elected since 1958, Macron's win triggered angry protests in Paris & Lyon. Macron's majority over far-Right rival Marine Le Pen was halved.

Is this where Europe is headed? France’s new radicalism law exposes Macron’s centrism

France’s Left and Right-wing agree on one thing when it comes to the new ‘anti-separatism’ law targeted at Muslims — it is too vague.

When White House plans for a strike on Iran left Pentagon, State Dept alarmed

France President Emmanuel Macron reaches out to resentful citizens, and Bangladesh’s famed garment workers continue protests for better pay.

Global Pulse: We will take our country back (never mind that we’re already a sovereign nation)

'We will take our country back' is the universal cry of rightist reaction.

On Camera

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.