Le Pen, Orban and the ‘Patriots for Europe’: Is the EU being undermined from within?
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Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party this week joined forces with the camp of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to form a powerful new far-right bloc in the EU parliament. The group, Patriots for Europe, will be led by Jordan Bardella, Le Pen’s 28-year-old protégé. With 84 EU lawmakers it will be the parliament’s third-largest political group.