France's Le Pen defiant as EU seeks return of misspent money

France's far-right candidate for president, Marine Le Pen, was set to lose 7,000 euros a month from her European Parliament earnings from Wednesday after defying a demand to repay nearly 300,000 euros of EU funds an investigation says she misspent. The parliament concluded that, in her role as French National Front leader, Le Pen had during the 2011-12 legislature paid party staff with the funds, which EU rules say should be used only to pay EU lawmakers' assistants. Le Pen, locked in an increas