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Speedy's Race Against Crime
Until recently, Nicolas Sarkozy was often derided as a cynical schemer driven exclusively by his own career ambitions. He was called a "bastard" and a...
Behind Sarkozy's G-20 'Walkout' Threat
Marie-Antoinette may be nearly 235 years dead, but that doesn't mean France's corridors of power lack for drama queens. Scarcely 48 hours before the opening of...
Sarkozy's Warning to Rioters
Sighs of relief were exhaled across France Wednesday, with news that rioting in suburbs north of Paris had eased considerably during the third consecutive night...
Cracks Deepening for Sarkozy
Since his election to the Elysee on a platform of deep and sweeping reform, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has repeatedly pledged a "rupture" with the past...
Why Pro-Arab France Is Warming Up to Israel
Watching France run interference for Israel in the run-up to the recent U.N. vote on the Goldstone inquiry into last winter's Gaza war, Arab governments may...
Is The Government Of Protest-Loving France Orchestrating Strikebreaking?
To many observers abroad (and even some closer to home), France has the reputation of being a singularly strike-happy place—a country whose workers will walk out...
Why France Is Selling Warships to Russia
As Russian President Dmitri Medvedev wound up a three-day state visit to Paris on Wednesday, he had to be pleased with the results. After all, he virtually...
Sarkozy's Big Plans for a Greater Paris
The frightful Battle of Paris that many observers expected has been averted — at least for now. In unveiling mammoth plans to modernize and reorganize France's...
Why China Keeps Picking on Sarkozy
In much of the world, President Nicolas Sarkozy enjoys a reputation for being something of a diplomatic dynamo. In China, the energetic French leader has a...
Europe's Conservatives Sour On the Free Market
France's notoriously divided and ideologically marooned Socialist opposition has long struggled to find a leader capable of selling a modern leftist vision that...
Must-Reads from Around the World: March 30, 2012
War on Islam – The Washington Post reports that early morning raids in Paris and other French cities led to the arrest of 19 people suspected of radical Islamist...
Transport Strikes to Derail Sarkozy?
To the outside world, France's nationwide transport strike Wednesday will look like just another in a long line of work stoppages by French workers and their...
The Sarkozy Soap Opera
Paul Simon once sang that there must be 50 ways to leave a lover, but that number shrinks considerably when you're the first lady. Just ask Cecilia Sarkozy. ...
French Socialists Seek Candidate--And Unity--To Confront Sarkozy In 2012
So what are the main take-away points for international readers curious about the presidential primary being held by France's Socialist Party (PS), and now...
Can French Bank Deal On Greek Debt Save The Euro?
Could the end of the Greek debt crisis be in view—and with it the pressure that has put the very future of the euro in jeopardy? That's the hope behind a draft...
France Moves Closer to Banning the Burqa
By ordering his cabinet to table a law banning the full face- and body-covering veils worn by some Muslim women, French President Nicolas Sarkozy appeared to...
Beware of Riling France's President
What's French for "be careful what you wish for?" Just ask the 19 million voters who flocked to the straight-talking, populist presidential candidate Nicolas...
Recommended Reading: BBC's Hewitt On The Sarko-Hollande Battle
For anyone who hasn't done so yet, I suggest having a read of a very well-focused and evenly-argued story by Gavin Hewitt, Europe editor for BBC News, on the...
Sarkozy Makes Eyes at NATO
It is an episode of Gallic exceptionalism branded into the French national consciousness: in 1966, then-President Charles De Gaulle Charles De Gaulle flounced...
Europe's Hopes for G-20 Summit Risk Being Dashed
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is not the sort to let a grim outlook undermine his trademark determination. So despite the chorus of warnings against...
