political parties of France

France opened an inquiry into the Libya case in 2013, after reports by French website Mediapart based on claims by a Franco-Lebanese businessman, Ziad Takieddine, who said he had transferred 5 million euros ($6 million) from Gaddafi's former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi to Sarkozy's campaign ...

After a largely indifferent response to last year's French proposals about the "re-founding" of the European Union, Germany now wants to reassert its control over a splintering community of nation states in order to be able to push back at the American and Chinese influence in the continent's economic and ...

However, the military did recently allow political parties to begin to register for a future election, and around forty political parties have registered already. ... More important, unlike in France, a real democracy where Macron was able to truly build a new movement, it would be virtually impossible for any ...

France's far-right National Front party has definitively severed its ties to firebrand founder Jean-Marie Le Pen as it tries to revive its fortunes. ... Marine Le Pen, French National Front (FN) political party candidate for French 2017 presidential election, concedes defeat at the Chalet du Lac in the Bois de ...

Independent of the EU parliament, the authority registers, controls, and oversees European political parties and their affiliated foundations. The issue is critical. For a party to register as a European political party and get access to EU funds it must have at least seven members from different countries.

He said: “I've watched French politics and I've seen all sorts of shades of Euroscepticism over the course of the last 20 years. “Never before have I seen a French political party clearly and unequivocally say 'France should be an independent country that makes its own laws, controls its own borders and has ...

Piyabutr said the Future Forward Party is modeled after young political parties that broke away from traditional politics in other nations. He cited the left-wing parties of Podemos in Spain, Syriza in Greece, and La France Insoumise in France. "It is a world trend that new political parties are emerging. In many ...

The further away the framing of an organisation as a political party, the more likely it is to change its name frequently. ... Recent examples include En Marche!, la France insoumise, Generation.s – all of which claim to mobilise beyond party, in social movements, citizens' committees or via social media.