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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
Although they've had a rough relationship for the past year or so, French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade (pictured sitting) states that French President Nicolas Sarkozy (pictured pointing) - who inspired her to join the center-right UMP party in 2005 and to join his administration in 2007 after he won election - remains her hero (interview in French). Sudouest.com interviews her: How do you...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
Paris - She is young, black, strikingly attractive and France's most popular politician - but perhaps Sports Minister Rama Yade's most eye-catching feature is that she repeatedly says no to President Nicolas Sark...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Cacophony is the day within the ruling center-right UMP party, as they determine exactly how to handle outspoken French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade. The drama is making national headlines in Franch. The French are even calling Secretary Yade, who is a former human rights minister, "La Rebelle" (The Rebel). Some days ago, there was a row over Secretary Yade's dissent from the party...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Things are getting interesting in France in regards to Rama Yade, the outspoken French Secretary of State and former human rights minister who is France's most popular politician. A move by the French government to scrap a tax break which benefits top football and rugby players has angered clubs and caused a huge row between Secretary Yade and her fellow center-right cabinet colleagues . Ms. Yade was...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Paris - French Sports Minister Rama Yade may be on her way out because of her public disagreement with a new law eliminating a tax break for top athletes, the online edition of the weekly Le Point reported Tuesday. Prime Minister Francois Fillon gave...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
I see the British press has caught up to Booker Rising, who has been highlighting this latest struggle for a few weeks now. However, there’s some new info. President Nicolas Sarkozy's short temper has claimed a new victim as his former favorite Rama Yade, France’s independent-minded sports minister, has been frozen out after criticizing the president’s handling of a nepotism scandal...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Our girl is getting defiant....again! French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants French Secretary of State for Sport Rama Yade - who has been polling as France's most popular politician for months - to contest March 2010 regional elections in Val d'Oise [which is not her home district; it is where many immigrants live and which is infamous for its violence...including those riots from a few years ago]....
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Yesterday Booker Rising reported with French regional elections approaching in March, the center-right UMP party is rife with negotations on how to form its candidate list and who will top it at which locations. Rama Yade, as alderwoman of Colombes (a suburb of Paris, where she grew up) was originally intended to appear on the UMP's list for the Hauts-de-Seine district. Hauts-de-Seine includes Colombes....
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French Politics (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Sometimes a president's biggest blunders are the decisions to which he devotes the least thought. Placing his son at the head of EPAD is unlikely to have occupied much of Nicolas Sarkozy's time. He could do it, so why not? Yet it has mobilized opposition like nothing else in recent months, including within his own party. Even the mayor of Neuilly, supported for his position by Jean Sarkozy, sees disaster...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
As regular readers know, the moderate-conservative politico polls as France's most popular poltical figure and has been so for months now. The French Secretary of State for Sport and former human right minister is in the French news: Rama Yade: "Beware Of A Disconnect Between The Elites And Common Folks, Lest The French Neo-Nazis Gain Power" Some days ago, Booker Rising featured an op-ed...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
First we have Le Point , a French magazine that currenlty has our girl Rama Yade on its cover. The accompanying article focuses on the moderate-conservative politico's transition from French Secretary of State for Human Rights (a position which French President Nicolas Sarkozy cut when Ms. Yade, who is one of France's Top 3 most popular political figures, challenged his coziness with various dictators...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirms in an interview in Nouvel Observateur that he was disappointed by the refusal of Rama Yade, former French Secretary of State for Human Rights and one of France's most popular political figures, to run in the recent European election (artice in French). “I considered it regrettable that Rama Yade strongly refused the European list because it was very important...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
As Booker Rising readers know, yesterday French President Nicolas announced his cabinet reshuffle which is making big news in Europe. He has sidelined our girl, who was the French Secretary of State for Human Rights and is a popular moderate-conservative known for her outspokenness, by eliminating her position and moving her over as French Secretary of State for Sport. Does Sarkozy Devalue Human Rights?...
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Booker Rising (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
You read right. French President Nicolas Sarkozy done lost his mind, in his cabinet shakeup which is making big news in Europe . He's been itching to fire our girl, who is currently the French Secretary of State for Human Rights, for months because of the moderate-conservative's too competent at her job (1) outspokenness on Libya and China; and (2) defying his demand that she run for the European Parliament...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
PARIS, June 24 (UPI) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy has replaced eight Cabinet ministers in what he called the second phase of his administration. The winners in the reshuffling included right-wing loyalists while glamorous women from ethnic minorities who were part of Sarkozy's initial Cabinet were among the losers, The Times of London reported Wednesday. The newspaper said Justice Minister...
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