In a recent speech detailing her economic program, the French far-right leader Marine Le Pen offered what can only be described as a populist vision of fiscal consolidation. Whether she can make such a paradoxical formulation work will now determine her own future, and possibly that of Europe’s nationalist right.
PARIS—Marine Le Pen, the leader of the far-right National Rally (RN) in France, has unveiled an economic program centered on rapid fiscal consolidation—more commonly known as austerity. In doing so, she has broken sharply with her own party’s past and aligned herself more closely with a longstanding trend on the European right.
