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EDF’s Henri Proglio - the man with a Fat Cat salary

It might only have been worth a one-liner in the middle of the broadcast on TF1’s prime time news on Tuesday, but confirmation that Henri Proglio, the recently-appointed big cheese at the French utility giant, Electricité de France (EDF) would in (...)

21 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has the "wind in his sails"

This Thursday’s issue of the weekly French news magazine, Le Point, should make interesting reading for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he’s most commonly known here, the head of the International Monetary Fund. Because even though his (...)

21 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rama Yade under fire - again

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

Quick end to striptease during French political party’s evening entertainment

It’s clearly not an easy job holding public office and refraining from "putting your foot in it" occasionally with a throwaway comment especially in these days when every remark can be picked up so easily on a mobile ’phone and (...)

1 Oct. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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

Divisions in France of over dangers of H1N1 virus

Divisions in France of over dangers of H1N1 virus

There are two quite different perspectives that have appeared in France over the past couple of days on the same story: perhaps reflecting the attitude held by many people here and elsewhere over the real dangers associated with "swine flu" - or (...)

28 Jul. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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