AMIENS, France—French presidential candidates on Wednesday turned a Whirlpool Corp. factory slated for closure here into an impromptu stage for an ideological battle over how to revive the country’s declining industrial might. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has made the plant’s looming closure a national rallying point for her antiglobalist, euroskeptic campaign. The Michigan-based appliance maker announced in January it would...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 26, 2017 20:34 UTC