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Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy
Call it Chirac's Revenge. Less than two years after he left office with nearly record low approval ratings, former French President Jacques Chirac finds himself...
France: The Palace Provocateur
In a country where politicians generally prefer evasion to bluntness, Nicolas Sarkozy makes a point of being an anomaly. As mobs of disaffected youths rampaged...
More French Strike. Where's Sarkozy?
During his first six months in office, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly shown his talents as a captivating performer on the world stage. In...
Sex and the Single President
Having marketed his marriage as an integral part of his presidential appeal, President Nicolas Sarkozy has had to endure the agony of its breakup in the full...
France’s Jewish School Massacre: A Horrified Country Unites After Shooting Spree
France came together in sorrow Tuesday to mark the horrific killing of four people outside a Jewish school in Toulouse Monday—an outrage the headline of the...
Royal, Sarkozy: Toe-to-Toe in France
Nicolas Sarkozy came to Wednesday night's key presidential campaign debate with Socialist Segolene Royal with a reputation for aggression: The former Interior...
The Protests in France Get Personal
As millions of French protesters took to the streets Thursday for a repeat of the nationwide strikes that slowed the country to a crawl on Jan. 29, there was the...
On Iran Nukes, France and the U.S. Play Bad Cop, Good Cop
If France's opposition to the invasion of Iraq prompted Capitol Hill hawks to rename the fries in the congressional canteen, its stance on Iran could just as...
The New Euro Plan: Is Greek Bailout 2.0 The Real Deal?
As they paraded out of their summit chamber late Thursday to hail their new €135 billion ($195 billion) debt deal for Greece, Europe's leaders all wore bullish...
McCain's Paris Romance
If Senator John McCain wasn't the secret favorite of French President Nicolas Sarkozy among all American candidates to the White House, he certainly should be...
Dig For Victory
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 The scandal engulfing France's ruling duet, Dominique de Villepin and Jacques Chirac, is intensifying this week, with every day bringing...
Could Seven Dead Monks Upset President Nicolas Sarkozy's Bold Plans To Remake France's Legal System?
When the severed heads of seven French Trappist monks were found in a remote mountainous region of Algeria in May 1996, it was natural to assume the murders were...
Did Two French Ministers Quit to Save a Third?
When two French Cabinet ministers resigned on Sunday night, it seemed the logical response to public outrage over the news that the two men had been living the...
How Libya Might Go Wrong: The French Version
How might the Libya mission go badly? Every country involved in the coalition has its own military and domestic political calculations. But a general sense of...
France's Belated Mea Culpa on Rwanda
The 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed more than 800,000 lives, sparked years of violent unrest in central Africa and poisoned French-Rwandan relations so severely...
Ready For The Showdown
During warfare, a sudden lull in hostilities can sometimes be mistaken for a truce. But in the battle between French President Jacques Chirac and his...
Following U.S. Lead, France Announces Afghan Troop Withdrawl
Just hours after U.S. President Barack Obama announced his timetable for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, his French opposite Nicolas Sarkozy followed suit...
France's Labor Paradox
President Nicolas Sarkozy may have triumphed over the millions of protesters and strikers who opposed his effort to raise the retirement age in France by two...
Sunday Shopping? France Says Non
In policy terms, December, 2008 is not turning out to be a keeper for French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Less than 24 hours after his government was forced to...
In Chad, Better the Devil You Know?
French President Nicolas Sarkozy likes to adopt a Travis Bickle "you-talkin-to-me?" swagger when seeking to intimidate political rivals, protesters and the...
