The Latest Breaking News from Marine Le Pen

Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the European Union's fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and other members of her nationalist party of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament.

Sunday's vote in France will determine whether the pro-European centrist President Emmanuel Macron or the far-right, anti-immigration Marine Le Pen runs the European Union's second-largest economy for the next five years.

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen registered her highest score in the first round of the 2022 presidential election in the overseas French department of Mayotte, an Indian Ocean archipelago located 8,000 km from Paris.

Emmanuel Macron regained some momentum over far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, as France enters the final week of a closely watched election.

Paris prosecutors are studying a report by the European Union's fraud agency accusing French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and other members of her nationalist party of misusing public funds while serving in the European Parliament. The report was disclosed by French investigative news site Mediapart just days before…

A Le Pen victory in the French election would be a blow to the EU and Nato, and thus a victory for the Kremlin, writes Oliver Hartwich

Far-left contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon won 22 percent of the ballots cast in last week's first round, accounting for more than 7.7 million voters. He has warned his supporters not to help Marine Le Pen, but has stopped short of advising them to vote for Emmanuel Macron.

A planned hijab ban if French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is elected would come "little by little" and be determined by lawmakers, her allies said on Monday, marking a shift in tone less than a week ahead of the final presidential vote.

Of the 48.7 million people enrolled to vote in the first round of France's presidential election, more than one in four opted to stay away. But 226,000 of those who turned out found they couldn't exercise their right after they were mistakenly struck off the electoral roll.