Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will try on Thursday to end tension over the appointment of a Frenchman to oversee a shake-up of European banking.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy will try on Thursday to end tension over the appointment of a Frenchman to oversee a shake-up of European banking.
Gizmodo Australia (Free subscription) | yesterday
While French President Sarkozy didn’t namecheck Google directly, he more than alluded to them, claiming that their aim of scanning out of copyright books and putting them online will damage France’s own book digitisation plan. (more…)
Techdirt (Free subscription) | yesterday
French politicians have been quite upset about Google's book scanning project for years. Way back in 2005, government officials announced that Google's book scanning project was a threat to French culture . Why? Because the fear was that Google would just scan English books, and ignore the French. So, the French government mobilized. Or, rather, spoke as if it was going...
Gizmodo (Free subscription) | yesterday
While French President Sarkozy didn't namecheck Google directly, he more than alluded to them, claiming that their aim of scanning out of copyright books and putting them online will damage France's own book digitization plan. Speaking at an event yesterday about France's plans to place the nation's books online, he said: "We won't let ourselves be stripped of our heritage to the...
ERE Blog Central | ERE Blog Network (Free subscription) | yesterday
British PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have issued a joint call for urgent global reform of financial markets. Writing in the Wall Street Journal, they say a one-off tax on bank bonuses should be "considered a priority". The two leaders say it is "simply not acceptable" for taxpayers to cover the cost of bank failures but not benefit from their...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
From the Article: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country’s literary heritage be taken away by a “friendly” large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google [Snip] We won’t let ourselves be stripped of our heritage to the benefit of a big company, no matter how friendly, big or American [...]
Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
French politicians have been quite upset about Google's book scanning project for years. Way back in 2005, government officials announced that Google's book scanning project was a threat to French culture . Why? Because the fear was that Google would just scan English books, and ignore the French. So, the French government mobilized. Or, rather, spoke as if it was going...
Atom Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKGEE5B80GF20091209?sp=true * EDF could take command of French nuclear bid-Proglio * Bid to be submitted on Dec. 10-Proglio * French consortium has already lowered price-sources * Abu Dhabi nuclear plant project estimated at up to $40 bln By Gilles Guillaume and Nina Sovich PARIS, Dec 9 (Reuters) - EDF (EDF.PA) is set to take the lead in a fresh bid by...
Sify (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Nicolas Sarkozy was reportedly threatened by the head of the International Monetary Fund who alleged that the French President's men were out to discredit him as a potential rival in
Connecting the Dots in the New World Order (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
French President Nicolas Sarokozy has announced plans to form paramilitary groups to patrol parts of cities, the "banlieu", where large numbers of immigrants live, in a move that has disturbing echoes of Fascist Europe in the 1930s. Private "citizen" paramilitary groups are supposed to keep „law and order“ in the banlieue. But the decision to set them up...
Celebrity Gossip (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Laurence Ferrari is a journalist Frenchwoman born on July 5, 1966 with Aix-the-Baths (Savoy). She is the girl of the former UDF deputy and mayor of Aix-the-Baths Gratien Ferrari. She followed studies of communication to the French School of the press attachés. She is also graduate DESS of Political and Social Communication (3rd cycle) of the Sorbonne (Paris I).
The Cult of the Dead Fish (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced plans to form paramilitary groups to patrol parts of cities, the „banlieu“, where large numbers of immigrants live, in a move that has disturbing echoes of Fascist Europe in the 1930s. Private „citizen“ paramilitary groups are supposed to keep „law and order“ in the banlieue. But the decision to set them...
Christian Science Monitor (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
French President Sarkozy tagged London a big loser after the EU appointed a French finance chief. London fears greater 'meddling' in its financial services industry.
The English Blog (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Talking of global leaders, this week's Time Magazine has a long article about French president Nicolas Sarkozy, whose public approval rating stands at just 39%, down from more than 60% when he was first elected. On a recent cover, weekly...
