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14 Jan. 2010 | | Johnny Summerton

International

Sarkozy puts woman in charge of ’spy school’

Academy designed to stop infighting between rival intelligence chiefs. President Nicolas Sarkozy is to create a "school for spies", whose principal job will be to discourage French intelligence chiefs from spying on, and fighting against, one (...)

12 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | J.D. LeaSure

Politics

The French government’s online million-billion loan muddle

It’s an easy enough mistake perhaps getting a few zeros confused especially when the amounts involved are to most of us pretty mind boggling. But it’s not really the sort of error you would expect from a government purportedly more adept at (...)

30 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Society

French tourists in Brazil plane row face bleak Christmas

There seems to be little hope that three French citizens detained earlier this month by Brazilian authorities for causing a disturbance on a ’plane, will be home in time for Christmas. On Monday their families had hoped to have a private audience (...)

23 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Society

Growing disquiet among French over national identity debate

Opposition as to whether there’s a need for a debate on what constitutes national identity here in France is continuing to increase, according to the latest opinion poll released in the national daily, Le Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France. (...)

23 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Rachida Dati - a model European parliamentarian?

How much does Rachida Dati enjoy her job as a European parliamentarian? It’s surely a tough life being a European parliamentarian especially when you weren’t that keen on the job in the first place and now find yourself having to spend your (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Socialist party’s "head of human resources"

He’s at it again. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been bashing the opposition Socialist party. And while it wasn’t supposed to have been recorded on camera, somehow a clip of his sometimes less-than-diplomatic (and in this case (...)

11 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Music to the ears France’s lip-synching government ministers

An all-singing, all dancing, all lip-synching video featuring government ministers of France’s ruling centre-right UMP party. It’s the latest video to create a buzz on the Internet here in France; members of the governing centre-right Union (...)

10 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Society

Promise of a new home for French couple living in a public toilet

A happy - if temporary - solution to the plight of a French couple who have spent the past year living in a public toilet. The Côte d’Azur, or French riveria as it’s often known in English, is internationally renowned as being one of those (...)

7 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s restroom break with Nicolas Sarkozy

Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes Nicolas Sarkozy to task during a private moment. All right, so let’s end the week with the news to end all news, as reported "exclusively" (and then picked up by other French media outlets) in the weekly (...)

7 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People

A thumbs up from the French for Carla Bruni-Sarkozy as their first lady

A new poll shows the French believe Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is an asset to their president, Nicolas Sarkozy, but that she doesn’t necessarily have an impact on his political decisions. As previously promised "another week, another poll" here (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Politics

DSK for French president 2012 - the saga continues

Dominique Strauss-Kahn refuses to be drawn on French presidential aspirations, but that doesn’t stop journalists asking him. The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (or DSK as he’s more commonly known here), (...)

30 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

International

Damascus Reverts to Form

Well, that didn’t last long. Last week, Syrian President Bashar Assad announced he would resume peace negotiations with Israel without preconditions, but now he suddenly says it’s impossible. “What we lack is an Israeli partner,” (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

Society

French woman marries her dead fiancé

Yes you read the headline correctly. Out of France this past weekend comes the touching if somewhat unusual story of Magali Jaskiewicz and Jonathan Goerge. The couple were married on Saturday afternoon in the village of Dommary-Baroncourt in the (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

French politics: Rama Yade’s popularity and Sarkozy’s poor showing

Another week another poll or at least so it seems here as the French have been asked yet again to name their most popular political figure. And topping the list is none other than the junior minister for sports, Rama Yade. The poll comes courtesy of (...)

12 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Rama Yade under fire - again

It hasn’t been an easy time recently for France’s junior minister for sports, Rama Yade, who is trouble again. This time around it’s over her opposition to the government’s plan to abolish the droit à l’image collective (...)

5 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People

Rachida Dati’s latest front cover

When the former French justice minister and now member of the European parliament, Rachida Dati, makes the headlines in France it’s hard to know whether it’ll be for political reasons or because she’s a - well for want of a better word - (...)

4 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

The debate over Jean Sarkozy’s new job continues

Reactions are coming thick and fast to the news last week that Jean Sarkozy, the son of the French president, is in line for a top job at l’Etablissement public d’aménagement du quartier d’affaires de la Défense (Epad), the development (...)

13 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Media

Nicolas Sarkozy to start tweeting

Something to look forward to for all those interested in French politics. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has promised to tweet during December’s United Nations Climate Change Conference. Those following him on Twitter will be able to (...)

7 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Sarkozy reaches new heights

You have to hand it to the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy. He’s not exactly subtle about adding a few centimetres (or inches if you like) to his height when he deems it necessary. For the second time in almost as many weeks, the French media - (...)

28 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

And France’s best-dressed male politician is...?

Oh come on. You know you’re interested. After all isn’t it the most compelling part of politics...the fluffy celebrity side of things? Read on, and you’ll find out (eventually) who the French think is their best-dressed male politician, (...)

24 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Society

Police suspect admits he was behind Sarkozy death threats

A 51-year-old man taken in for questioning at the weekend has reportedly admitted that he alone was behind a series of letters and death threats sent to a number of leading politicians, including the French president Nicolas Sarkozy. The suspect, Thierry (...)

23 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Local News

Sarkozy sidesteps minister’s racial slur

It’s a story that has been making the headlines here in France for over a week now; the incident when the interior minister, Brice Hortefeux, apparently made a remark which many interpreted as being racist. It occurred at the ruling centre-right (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Society

Police step up investigations in Sarkozy death threat case

There has been a development in the case of "le corbeau" (the crow) - or perhaps that should be put in the plural. On Thursday, police swooped on around 20 homes in the southern French département of l’Hérault and took 11 people in for (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

People

Carla Bruni to hit the big screen?

Isn’t it just the news you’ve been waiting for? France’s first lady, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, is rumoured to be set to appear at a cinema near you sometime in the not-too-distant future. Well that’s if the Spanish national daily (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

Politics

Sarkozy appoints new ministers - oops, no he doesn’t

It was a rumour that had been doing the rounds of the Net for some time and certainly ever since the reshuffle at the end of June: the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was about to appoint three new ministers to a seemingly ever-increasing government. (...)

22 Sep. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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