or will emmanuel macron see off her challenge? a le pen victory would have profound effects on europe as a whole. i asked nick beake, the bbc s europe correspondent, who s been covering the first round and is now back in brussels, for his views. we saw the brexit vote, then we saw the election of donald trump, and people are wondering whether the french are going to do something very similar, something that upsets everything that s come before. and that s because a le pen presidency wouldn t just change the face of france, in some ways, bringing in her own domestic policies, but it would change france s place, notjust in the european union, but among the international community. and although she s softened some aspects of her appeal to the french people for example, she no longer says that france should come out of the single currency, the euro