LE PEN'S EMBATTLED PARTY RETHINKS ITSELF

PARIS Marine Le Pen’s farright National Front party is holding a high- tension meeting that could lead to a name change and a rethink of the party’s demand to pull France out of the euro.

Changing the party’s name — associated with Le Pen’s outspoken father — is among sensitive items on the agenda at a closed-door “seminar for reflection” Friday and Saturday at the party’s headquarters in the Paris suburb of Nanterre. A final decision on such changes would be put to party members later.

Even more explosive is the party’s internal debate over its anti- euro policy. That stance is believed to have cost Le Pen votes in the recent presidential campaign and has deeply divided party leadership — and worried global financial markets because of its potentially devastating impact on Europe’s economy.