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The trial could determine France’s political future. Twelve representatives of the Rassemblement National (formerly Front National) are expected to attend their appeal process in Paris from Tuesday. Last year, 24 of them were sentenced to prison and fines for embezzling subsidy money. The trick was to pose party employees as personal parliamentary assistants to MEPs. In this way, they received wage subsidies totaling 4.1 million euros from the European Parliament.