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Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Angela Giuffrida in Rome

Le Pen and Orbán join forces in European parliament far-right alliance

Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán smile for the camera in front of their nations' flags
France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán in 2023. Photograph: Benko Viviven Cher/Press Office of the Prime Minister

France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen has joined forces with the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán in a new far-right alliance in the European parliament.

The group, styled Patriots for Europe, becomes the third-largest force in the European parliament and the largest-ever far-right bloc in the history of the assembly.

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