On Monday 31 March in Strasbourg, MEPs were relatively sober about the verdict handed down that morning by the Paris Court, which found Marine Le Pen and eight other members of the Rassemblement national party, including six former MEPs and Nicolas Bay (who is now a Member of ECR group), guilty of misappropriating public funds, in this case European funds, and imposed a five-year ineligibility sentence on the leader of the political group in the French National Assembly.
While the...