If Nicolas Sarkozy gets his way (and he always does, doesn't he?) French writer and philosopher Albert Camus will find a new resting place on the famous burial grounds of the Panthéon in the Latin Quarter in Paris. Sounds like a good idea. His current grave in Lourmarin is hardly worthy of a Nobel Prize [...]
Paris: French President Nicolas Sarkozy apologised to Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen for France's controversial victory over Ireland in their World Cup play-off on Wednesday, but would not
FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has apologised to Ireland after their team was deprived of a World Cup berth by a goal that should not have been awarded.
FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy has apologised to Ireland after their team was deprived of a World Cup berth by a goal that should not have been awarded.
We all know that the French can be a right shower of bastards when they want to be. Just ask the New Zealanders. Back in 1985, they sank a Greenpeace ship, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbour, drowning a photographer in the process. Ten years later, they started testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific, blowing the shit out of a number of atolls in the region. Judging by the hysteria in the...
France on Thursday unveiled plans for a 35-billion-euro national loan to fund investments that will propel growth even as it faces European demands to rein in its ballooning deficit. At an Elysee ceremony, President Nicolas Sarkozy received a report on the "grand loan" from a special commission set up to outline priorities for the massive borrowing and determine its size.
Opposing groups try to find consensus on who should take presidential and foreign minister roles ahead of Brussels summit The leaders of Europe's main political tribes conferred in Brussels this afternoon in an attempt to hammer out a last-minute consensus on who should be the top two people running the EU's new Lisbon regime ahead of a crucial Brussels summit. While Christian democratic government...
Is Tony Blair about to make the most remarkable political come back since Winston Churchill? The Blair Camp is playing down his chance of being chosen as the new President of the EU council variously putting it at “1 in 10” and “less than likely”. But the fact remains – as Sky News has consistently reported unlike almost all our British rivals – that the name of...
Germany and France are to strike a deal on who they want for the coveted post of first permanent European council president, Chancellor Angela Merkel announced today, sparking anger in other European capitals over a feared Franco-German stitch-up. With 27 EU leaders going into a special summit tomorrow increasingly at odds over the twin posts of European Council president and EU foreign minister,...
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — A Gaza charity headed by the interior minister of the militant Hamas group on Wednesday offered $1.4 million to any Arab citizen of Israel who abducts a soldier. Palestinians have frequently called on Israeli Arabs to abduct Israeli soldiers, but this is the first time that money has been offered. The Waad group from Gaza offered the bounty for Israeli soldiers in an e-mail...
Terrorist freed, terrorist deported France Ould-Aissa Charef (33), a French citizen of Algerian origins, has been imprisoned in Ryad for more than a year, suspected of having links to al-Qaeda. Charef, married with four children, moved to Saudi Arabia in order to study theology at the King Abdulaziz University. But the Saudi authorities, who closely monitor foreigners coming to Saudi Arabia to study...
French President Nicolas Sarkozy flew to Riyadh on Tuesday to boost efforts to break the impasse of the Middle East peace process and try to resume the stalled peace talks. After bustling talks with Israeli, Palestinian and Syrian leaders in the past week, France now starts seeking to mediate the Mideast peace process on site. In Amman, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has held talks with Palestinian...
Carla Bruni, wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, visited Qatar on Wednesday to help efforts to persuade the emirate to set up branches of major French universities and research bodies, an aide said.
RIYADH: President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived here yesterday for a visit meant to deepen French political and economic ties with Saudi Arabia as part of his administration’s efforts to raise France’s profile in the oil-rich Gulf. The one-day visit – Mr Sarkozy’s third to the kingdom in less than two years – is both low-key and high-intensity. Billed on both sides as more personal...
US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy to seeing the pink satin draped booty of 17-year-old girl Mayara Tavares at the taking place is G8 summit in L’Aquila, Italy on July 9, 2009.
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The media can't even get it straight! Is Mayara 16 or 17 years old? They are full of it!!
Nicolas Sarkozy, the President of the Council of the European Union and Victor Yushchenko, the President of the Ukraine, will adopt a joint declaration establishing the political framework for EU-Ukraine relations