Follow French president Nicoloas Sarkozy. Sarkozy won a hotly contested battle against Segolene Royal to win leadership of France.
51-year-old Nicolas Sarkozy began his political life 30 years ago. He's regarded as "The Mozart of...
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Follow French president Nicoloas Sarkozy. Sarkozy won a hotly contested battle against Segolene Royal to win leadership of France.
51-year-old Nicolas Sarkozy began his political life 30 years ago. He's regarded as "The Mozart of Politics" for his talents and energy. He is the son of a Hungarian refugee aristocrat.
Sarkozy has become one of France's most popular new politicians.
Michelle Obama has kicked aside controversy over her expensive French sports shoes and ordered thigh-high luxury boots from the same country, her new shoemaker said Tuesday. Robert Clergerie said the US first lady had chosen a black pair with flat heels as well as another pair of calf-length boots in soft beige buckskin, both in size 41 (US size nine-and-a-half, British size seven). The order was sent in by a retailer in the Obamas' hometown Chicago after Michelle could not find the exact... Read Full Story
France on Thursday unveiled plans for a 35-billion-euro national loan to fund investments that will propel growth even as it faces European demands to rein in its ballooning deficit. At an Elysee ceremony, President Nicolas Sarkozy received a report on the "grand loan" from a special commission set up to outline priorities for the massive borrowing and determine its size. France hopes to leave its year-long recession far behind with the loan that the report said should total 35 billion euros... Read Full Story
French President Nicolas Sarkozy made American actor and director Clinton Eastwood a commander in the prestigious French Legion of Honor on Friday. The citation for the highly coveted decoration said Eastwood, 79, was honored for his body of work, his longevity and his ability to delight audiences around the globe. Former French President Jacques Chirac had honored Eastwood as a knight of the Legion of Honor two years ago, and Friday's decoration was a step up for Eastwood to grade three on... Read Full Story
Where was Nicolas Sarkozy when the Berlin Wall fell? The French president suggests — in a casual post on his Facebook page — that he was at Checkpoint Charlie, chipping away at the Cold War with a pickax alonside throngs of Berliners on Nov. 9, 1989. French journalists aren't so sure. They question his account of the epochal event and suggest he only went a day or even a week later. They are asking why Sarkozy didn't speak of it earlier, posting his account only Sunday, the night before... Read Full Story
A top aide to President Nicolas Sarkozy sought on Thursday to downplay controversy over the French leader's account of how he witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago. Sarkozy recounted on his Facebook page that he rushed to Berlin on the morning of November 9th and was able to chip away at the Wall with a pickaxe later that evening. A 1989 report from AFP showed that Sarkozy was in Berlin on November 16. "I think it's really laughable that we are having this debate because the... Read Full Story
Jacques Chirac will be the first former French president to be tried for corruption, officials said Friday, after charges from his years as mayor of Paris returned to taint the twilight of his long career. Chirac stands accused of giving political allies lucrative bogus jobs as city hall "ghost workers" and his trial will be the latest in a series to expose graft and dirty tricks at the highest levels of state. Judicial officials confirmed to AFP that Chirac would face trial on charges of... Read Full Story
Move over Scarlett Johansson — Woody Allen has a new muse: France’s first lady, the model-turned-singer Carla Bruni-Sarkozy .
The brunette beauty will appear in Woody’s next film in a role that is, as yet, undefined, reports Bloomberg.
“He offered me a role in his next movie,” Carla told a French TV show yesterday.
“I don’t know for what character, but I said yes. I’m not an actress at all,” says the wife of France’s president Nicolas Sarkozy. “Maybe I will be terrible. But, in my life... Read Full Story
France's Culture Minister Frederic Mitterrand appeared to have saved his job on Friday after an emotional television appearance in which he admitted paying male prostitutes but denied sex with Asian boys. Mitterrand faced calls for his resignation this week over his autobiographical novel "The Bad Life" in which the main character describes paying for "boys" in brothels in Thailand and Indonesia. He appeared on French television late Thursday to deny the book was a defence of paedophilia and... Read Full Story
President Nicolas Sarkozy's 23-year-old son is angling for a key job overseeing billions of euros in commerce at France's top business district — a job critics say he does not deserve. Jean Sarkozy's conservative backers insisted Monday that he's qualified to chair EPAD, the quasi-governmental agency that manages the La Defense financial district on the western outskirts of Paris. The sprawling complex of skyscrapers houses the headquarters of some of Europe's biggest companies, such as oil... Read Full Story
