Britannia Radio (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Élysée TreatyFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaÉlysée Treaty also known as the Treaty of Friendship, was concluded by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer in 1963.It set the seal on reconciliation between the two countries. With it, Germany and France established a new foundation for relations that ended centuries of rivalry between them. On 22 January 2003, the 40th...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
CHOICES for president and foreign affairs raise questions on how the EU operates. THE appointments of Catherine Ashton representative for foreign affairs and security and that of Herman Van Rompuy as President of the European Council are an insult to European democracy.
MooPig Wisdom (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
1958 By now, more than 45 million American households have television sets. The John Birch Society, a radical anti-Communist organization, is created in the U.S. Dr. Zhivago is published in the US. Banned in the USSR, Zhivago won author Boris Pasternak the Nobel Prize which he was forced to decline due to political forces at home. The price of 1st class US postage is raised to 4¢ from 3¢...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has stirred questions with a post about the Berlin Wall on his Facebook page.
Switched (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Filed under: Web , Social Networking French President Nicolas Sarkozy, known for his fastidious management of his own public image, may have posted a bit of historical fib on his Facebook profile. Earlier today, Sarkozy uploaded a photo of himself with Alain Juppé, former Prime Minister under Jacques Chirac, chipping away at the Berlin Wall with a pickax, exactly 20 years ago. He claims that...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Former French president Jacques Chirac has expressed a grudging admiration for former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher despite their bitter clashes over Europe.
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Old age is a shipwreck. -- Charles de Gaulle WASHINGTON -- Revolutions notoriously eat their children. But France's political system reserves its sharpest cruelties for elderly politicians as they fall from favor, as de Gaulle learned in 1968. Now it is the turn of former President Jacques Chirac, who was ordered on Friday at age 76 to stand trial on 32-year-old corruption charges. Let's be honest....
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
PARIS — Former French President Jacques Chirac has been ordered to stand trial in an alleged corruption scandal dating back to his time as Paris mayor – a case that caught up with him in retirement once he lost the judicial immunity of France's highest office. A magistrate ordered Chirac, whose 12-year presidency ended in 2007, to stand trial on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust,...
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
France's founding republican myth and democratic self-image is belied by its people's enduring fixation with the many powerful leaders who have ruled the country: among them Louis XIV, Napoleon I and III, Général Charles de Gaulle, and even the wartime Marshal Pétain (who "gave himself to France" - and France to Hitler). Patrice de Beer is former London and Washington...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
WESTERN forces could be policing Taliban-infested territory for years but this needn't be a quagmire.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
A few weeks on, the people of the West African nation of Guinea are still reeling from the tragic incidents that were recorded on Monday, September 28, in their national capital, Conakry, when gun-wielding soldiers loyal to the military junta of Moussa Dadis Kamara shot scores of innocent civilians dead.
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
"Guinea, the former French colony that angered Charles de Gaulle with its refusal of partnership" . Partnership? Is this the new name for colonization in re-writing African history? How dare they anger the White Man. How dare they.
Berry Deep France (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
Consternation, frustration or just irony, It was General de Gaulle who once commeneted on the difficulty of « governing a country with 246 varieties of cheese ». The French are proud of their cheese. Talk to a Frenchman about cheese from elsewhere, he will roll his eyes and tell you that cheese from elsewhere is not « real » cheese » at all. Only the French make cheese...
Charles Bremner (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Ireland's 'yes' to the EU Lisbon treaty clears the way for Nicolas Sarkozy to stage his next big splash on the diplomatic front. This will take the form of a grand proposal to Chancellor Angela Merkel to renew the marriage...
baithak (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Since my article Bring Back Jagannath Azad’s Pakistan Anthem published in The Hindu on Sept 22 (slightly shorter version first published by Dawn on Sept 19) I have learnt that my ignorance on the matter was all the more deplorable given the previously published material that I have since come across. Besides Zaheer Kidvai’s recollections in his blog , that I mentioned in my blog post later...
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