Tag: Sarkozy
Thousands protest across France
Hundreds of thousands of civil servants across France are on a massive strike protesting job cuts. Protesters include teachers, hospital workers, tax officials and government officials. France's...
Sarkozy Says 'non' to Blair EU Presidency
It seems Tony Blair's participation in the Iraq war has come back to bite him, as he attempts to become President of the European Union."Nicolas Sarkozy has withdrawn his backing of Tony Blair to become the first...
French Foreign Minister meets Hugo Chavez over FA...
Caracas, Venezuela, 30 April 2008. The French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner met with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez today at Miraflores Palace in Caracas. On this occasion,...
Paris honours Dalai Lama, Sarkozy woos China
It looks like the governments of France and of Paris are working at cross-purposes." The Dalai Lama has been made an honorary citizen of Paris, as anti-French protests continue in China. Paris city council voted to...
Somali Pirates 'Killed in French Rocket Attack'
Conflicting reports are emerging regarding an alleged French rocket attack on pirate ship off the coast of Somalia: Sarkozy denied claims that anyone was killed in the attack, while eyewitness accounts tell a very...
Students riot for their teachers' jobs in the str...
Twenty thousand students and teachers took to the streets in Paris today to protest against the government's cost-saving reforms that will cut thousands of teaching jobs next year. Police however, were also on the...
Gordon Brown not attending Olympics opening
Downing Street has confirmed that Prime Minister Gordon Brown will not be attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics."However, he will be at the closing ceremony when the Olympic baton will be passed to...
FARC and France disagree over Ingrid Betancourt (...
Caracas, Venezuela, 4 April 2008. A recent "European" initiative to have Colombian French Ingrid Betancourt released seems to have failed badly. It what now appears to have been a unilateral French...
French media tell Sarkozy behave with the Queen
""Avoid getting excessively agitated in the (royal) carriage," Le Monde newspaper advised the president.The paper also recommended that Sarkozy should not answer his mobile phone in front of the queen, wear his Ray-Ban sunglasses or look at his Rolex watch -- except in...
Sarkozy calls for Franco-British Brotherhood, but...
The French President Nicholas Sarkozy visited the UK today, bringing along his controversial new wife."French President Nicolas
Sarkozy said he wanted to build a stronger alliance with Britain
and improve cooperation...
Sarkozy`s ex-wife to wed at New York`s Rainbow Room
"New York (ANTARA News) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ex-wife is to marry her Moroccan-born lover at New York's glitzy Rainbow Room on Sunday, according to a program of the celebrations seen by AFP.Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz and Richard Attias, a multi-millionaire events...
Sarkozy Hints at Beijing Boycott
If France follows through with the boycott, it could certainly compel other nations to do the same, although there isn't yet a broad-based, international consensus on what the necessary response to China's troubling...
40 Years After 1968: 'Where Has All the Rage Gone?'
As the U.S. death toll strikes its solemn bell of 4,000 soldiers killed in Iraq, with countless more Iraqis killed in the process, I have been asking myself this same question of late: where has all the rage gone?...
Nicolas Sarkozy's Ex-Wife to Wed in New York
France's former first lady, Cécilia Ciganer-Albéniz, plans to wed her
boyfriend, Moroccan-born public relations executive Richard Attias, in
Manhattan Sunday.
Ciganer-Albeniz, 50, and Attias, 48, left Paris Tuesday...
France, local elections: left wons the first round
On the 9th of march 2008, in the first round of the municipal elections in France, the Socialist Party [PS] gained ground mostly everywhere, specially in big cities like Paris, Lyon and Lille. ...
