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Marine Le Pen’s conviction raises the thorny question of when a democracy should disqualify a candidate. The case, involving a scheme to divert EU funds to her political party, was no stitch-up. Nevertheless, our leader argues that she
should be allowed
to run for president, in spite of her crimes.
And ahead of Donald Trump’s much-hyped tariffs announcement later today, we look at
how the rest of the world
could respond. Europe has the power to build a formidable bloc of open-market allies. But rules-bending China will spy an opportunity to gain influence. | 
