Brussels comes back to bite Le Pen – POLITICO

Marine Le Pen built her political career by trashing the EU, and Brussels is now poised to take revenge by blocking her path to France’s presidency.

On Tuesday, at an appeals court in Paris, the leader of the far-right National Rally will learn whether her dream of standing in next year’s election is over, just as polls place her party as a clear favorite to win the Elysée.

If her ambitions to run France are dashed, it will be thanks to an embezzlement complaint originating more than a decade ago in the European Parliament — an EU institution that she once condemned as “the blob that gobbles everything up.”