Marine Le Pen met les choses au point. David Oranje/Flickr

Les régionales, test de la stratégie présidentielle du FN

La conjonction entre une situation économique alarmante et la crise des migrants en Europe pourrait bien servir de marchepied à Marine Le Pen, engagée dans une tentative de banalisation du FN.
France’s Front National under Marine Le Pen could be described as ‘right wing’, but in a global context what does that even mean? EPA/Guillaume Horcajuelo

Are Ron Paul, Geert Wilders, Cory Bernardi and Marine Le Pen all ‘right wing’?

The rise of the Tea Party in the US and the electoral success of both nationalist populists in Europe and the Abbott government in Australia demonstrates there are many parties with positions described…
For opponents of same-sex unions, gay marriage and gay parenting are one and the same issue. EPA/Etienne Laurent

Liberte, egalite, fraternite? France and the gay marriage debate

The French love a good street protest, to the point where it could be thought of as a national sport. And there has been no shortage of people on French streets making their views felt recently. But there…
A screen grab from Generation Identitaire’s, a growing far-right French movement’s, “Declaration of War” video. YouTube

Occupy le mosque: France’s new radical nativism

Last month, about 70 activists of Generation Identitaire (GI) occupied the site of the unfinished Poitiers Grand Mosque. They unfurled a banner that read, “732 Generation Identitaire”, and asked for a…

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