{"id":944287,"date":"2026-05-07T17:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944287\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T17:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T17:52:27","slug":"eu-prosecutors-open-probe-into-bardellas-media-training-sessions-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/944287\/","title":{"rendered":"EU prosecutors open probe into Bardella\u2019s media training sessions \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The services were stopped ahead of the 2022 presidential election, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>In 2022 Le Pen reached the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/marine-le-pens-narrow-path-to-victory-france-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">second round of the presidential election<\/a> before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/macron-re-elected-for-second-term-as-french-president-projection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">losing<\/a> to incumbent French President Emmanuel Macron. Bardella and Le Pen are the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/french-municipal-elections-far-right-national-rally-momentum-presidency-marine-le-pen-jordan-bardella\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current front-runners<\/a> ahead of next year\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>According to several French news outlets, the complaint against Bardella was first lodged with France\u2019s National Financial Prosecutor\u2019s office before being transferred to the European Public Prosecutor. The National Rally official said the complaint represented \u201cpolitical instrumentation\u201d of the French justice system.<\/p>\n<p>The National Financial Prosecutor\u2019s office and the EPPO did not respond to POLITICO\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The new probe comes as National Rally parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen is hoping to overturn an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/france-far-right-national-rally-marine-le-pen-court-verdict-embezzlement-case-guilty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">embezzlement conviction<\/a> that bars her from running in the 2027 presidential election. The National Rally\u2019s presidential plans are in limbo until her appeal is decided in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The services were stopped ahead of the 2022 presidential election, the official said. In 2022 Le Pen reached&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":944288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[33,34,2000,299,5187,36,42,44,2452,11665,1199],"class_list":{"0":"post-944287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-elections","9":"tag-emmanuel-macron","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-france","14":"tag-jordan-bardella","15":"tag-marine-le-pen","16":"tag-media","17":"tag-meps","18":"tag-services"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116534571775844144","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/944288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}