Marine Le Pen is back.
The leader of France's right-wing National Rally
will now be her party's candidate for president,
displacing her young protege, Jordan Bardella,
after a court cleared her path
to run in next spring's elections.
But what would a President Le Pen mean
for the world, Europe, and France?
Welcome back to The Insider.
I'm Edward Carr,
The Economist's deputy editor.
And I'm delighted to have here Sophie Pedder,
our Paris bureau chief,
directly over from Paris on the Eurostar.
Welcome to you.
And Adam Roberts, frequent visitor to the show,
and our foreign editor.
So today I want to talk a little bit
about why Marine Le Pen's election
would mean so much to Europe,