Le Pen's daughter to run for leadership
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
THE daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen has said she will run to succeed her father as head of France's National Front party.
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Le Pen's daughter to run for leadership
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
THE daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen has said she will run to succeed her father as head of France's National Front party.
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Berets and Baguettes? France Rethinks Its Identity
Immigration Watch International (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
For decades, the French considered it taboo to question whether immigration and foreign influences were diluting France’s social and cultural character. Indeed, the topic was considered so toxic that no one in France besides extreme-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen would even take it up in public. But times have changed. Twenty years after Le Pen’s [...]
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Sarkozy's tough talk on French identity | Jim Wolfreys
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... heritage," he said, before expressing his desire for "the political death" of Jean-Marie Le Pen 's party. In this sense, with regional elections due in March, the debate follows an established pattern whereby mainstream parties of both left and right attempt to establish their get-tough credentials on immigration in the hope of winning over voters attracted by the FN. Midway...
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A whiff of the gas chambers
Hocemo Li Na Kafu? (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
I remember an interview between Jeremy Paxman and then UK Tory leader Michael Howard in the leadup to the 2005 British general election. Howard said--I paraphrase here--that he intended to withdraw the UK from the UN Refugee Convention. Paxman responded by pointing out that this put Howard's Tories farther to the right of Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National, and would put the UK in league with...
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