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...attitude is: “If you want to stay in our country, then adopt our customs, language, and values, or else go home.” These arguments, common currency now in Europe, used to be confined to extreme-right parties like that of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France...
...Eventually Byrne Fields grew up and John Hughes stopped making movies about high school. And then in 1994, he stopped making movies altogether. He bought a farm in Illinois and more or less quit Hollywood. Except for one surprise telephone call in 1997, the two pen pals never corresponded again...
France Goes Its Own Way The Front National is the big beast of Europe's far right. It was France's third-largest political party for much of this decade, and its leader Jean-Marie Le Pen was runner-up in the 2002 French presidential elections. So in June the party might have expected to harness the perfect storm of rising unemployment, economic insecurity and the racial tensions that have disfigured French society to sail to a historic victory in the European elections. Instead, the FN's share of the vote tumbled, reducing its tally of seats from seven...
Marine Le Pen Party: Front National Policies: Like her father, Jean-Marie, she argues for halting immigration ? and restoring the death penalty. Diverges from him by supporting women's rights, abortion and the creation of a "French Islam" Quote: "I have a very social vision of politics, and there are leftist voters who identify with my positions" - Le Pen explains her popular appeal...
...Just three weeks after the European elections, the former mining town, a traditional fiefdom of the French left, bucked the national trend to give the FN a convincing lead in the first round of municipal elections. The party was boosted by the presence on the trail of Marine Le Pen, the 40-year-old daughter of FN leader Jean-Marie and widely tipped as his successor. This thoroughly modern incarnation of the far right supports equal rights for women, is pro-choice on abortion, and talks of creating a "French Islam" to integrate France's Muslim community. Just as mainstream...