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  • Sarkozy "get lost" video becomes Internet hit (video)
    25 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Astrid Wendlandt
    A video of French President Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to "get lost" has become a hit on the Internet.
    Sarkozy was filmed by a journalist from the daily Le Parisien on a walkabout at the annual farm fair in Paris on Saturday.
    Sarkozy offered his hand to a man who said: "Don’t touch me, you are soiling me." In reply, Sarkozy said, without dropping his smile: "Get lost, dumb ass."
    The video was posted on Le Parisien’s website www.leparisien.fr.on and by (…)

  • Adieu, France
    5 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lisbon Treaty gets Versailles vote
    French MPs have voted to amend their constitution to permit the adoption of the revised European Constitution.
    EU Observer quotes Prime Minister Francois Fillon as hailing the decision as "a vote that distinguishes the actors of history from the spectators."
    Held in a special session in Versailles, the vote by France’s Chamber of Deputies was passed 560 to 181. Opposition Socialists abstained, arguing that while they supported the Lisbon Treaty, they (…)

  • $cientology : I will be on trial tuesday, february 7th in paris
    4 February 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    They accuse me of death threat and "death or destruction intent toward their organization " with a fake letter, one guy was also violently harrassed by a drunkard
    I suppose also being part of a plot I was witness the police asked me to give a statement and why I didn’t react, which actually I did by calling two scienos to get to help the guy which was in big trouble they are manipulating people they do it the way some famous mediteranean criminal mobsters organization done it for years, (…)

  • Europe’s Enron moment has arrived
    30 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE’S TRADING SCANDAL by DOUG SAUNDERS
    LONDON — As Nicolas Sarkozy and Gordon Brown met for dinner in London last night, there was a distinct sense that both leaders were having an Enron moment: The sudden realization that the country’s most-respected industries are going to need more government oversight.
    Both the French President and the British Prime Minister, who met to discuss the rattling economy and banking crises in an emergency summit with other European leaders, (…)

  • Doubts over French bank’s version of multi-billion euro scam
    26 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Doubts over French bank’s version of multi-billion euro scam
    Paris, January 26, 2008
    Analysts have expressed doubts over Societe Generale’s declaration that a single rogue trader was responsible for the fraud that cost it 4.9 billion euros ($7.1 billion).
    "If you know the control procedures very well, then it is possible to elude them for a few days, maybe a few weeks. But it’s hard to believe that he did this for a year," economist Elie Cohen told France-Info radio Friday.
    If the (…)

  • On the simplified European treaty - Pour un nouveau referendum (video)
    24 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Révolte au Parlement de l'UE - INCROYABLE
    Dear European friends, et chers amis français de l’étranger,
    I’m really sorry of French speaking only to the following words... but I cannot use other language assuring that there will not be misunderstanding. The subject is of The simplified European treaty from a country that had voted No.
    C’est au sujet de la ratification du traité européen contre la majorité des suffrages exprimés lors du premier référendum que je vous écris (…)

  • ’the french are miserable but sarkozy’s my napoleon,’ says his lover (or wife)
    20 January 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Phil Meadley
    Former supermodel Carla Bruni may have maintained a dignified silence about her relationship with the French president.
    But in a startlingly frank interview conducted not long before she met Nicolas Sarkozy, Carla revealed her true feelings about the "miserable" and "negative" French people and the "unbearably polluted" Paris.
    She even likened the 52-year-old President - who some reports claim she has secretly married - to the pop star Prince and Napoleon Bonaparte, (…)

  • Sarkozy reinvents France for bling era
    31 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    John Lichfield: Our Man In Paris
    The republican monarchy invented by Charles de Gaulle – aloof, discreet, solemn, haughty – vanished last week somewhere between Cinderella’s castle and Space Mountain.
    Nicolas Sarkozy wants to reinvent France for the 21st century. He has started by reinventing the French presidency for the Age of Celebrity. The President of the Republic has become the host of a permanent chat show; the only contestant in a "Big Brother" house called the Elysée Palace; the (…)

  • Sarkozy to create a ’French Pentagon’ military HQ
    12 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Anna Willard
    PARIS – President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to regroup France’s different military commands into one new headquarters on the edge of Paris, a ministry official said on Monday.
    The commands of the navy, the army, and the overall military command, will move in 2012 to one building in southwest Paris next to the existing air force command, the official said.
    Around 10,000 people will be based at the new site in the Balard district, including the 5,000 already located in the (…)

  • SARKOZY
    10 December 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By IGNACIO RAMONET Le Monde Diplomatique
    Like the pied piper of Hamelin, Nicolas Sarkozy initially enchanted eminent figures on all sides with his verve and brio. The media were equally spellbound and joined in the mass hysteria. France was virtually hypnotised by this disconcertingly hyperactive president, fizzing with vague plans.
    The scales began to fall from everyone’s eyes when the true nature of the sideshow was revealed. The magician was just a neo-liberal in disguise.
    This was (…)