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Feb 27, 2008 10:08 AM CST

Paris-Berlin Relations Turn Sour

Tempers fraying in Merkel's camp after 2 high-level cancellations

(Newser) - Only a week after Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel called off a scheduled meeting, France and Germany's finance ministers canceled their own summit yesterday, reports AFP. While nobody wants to say that the leaders of Europe's two largest countries are getting testy with each other, disagreements over economic policy and...

Sarkozy Rips 'Idiot' Citizen

Feb 25, 2008 4:28 AM CST

Sarkozy Rips 'Idiot' Citizen

French prez has a cow at agriculture show

(Newser) - In his latest popularity blunder, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been captured on tape calmly skewering a French citizen who refused to shake his hand at an agricultural show in Paris. "Get lost, you idiot," Sarkozy zings in a sanitized translation when the man tells the president he...

Foes Mobilize to Block Blair as First Euro Prez

Feb 20, 2008 3:14 AM CST

Foes Mobilize to Block Blair as First Euro Prez

Iron support for US still rankles

(Newser) - Stiff opposition is mounting against the possibility of former British prime minister Tony Blair being named the first president of Europe. A "Stop Blair" website has been launched, and a cross-party caucus in the European parliament is forming to campaign against him. A new treaty about to be ratified...

French Police Storm Housing Projects

Feb 18, 2008 5:03 AM CST

French Police Storm Housing Projects

1,000 cops bust 33 for riots in raid on immigrant communities

(Newser) - More than 1,000 French police stormed housing projects in three largely immigrant communities outside of Paris early today and arrested 33 suspects believed linked to riots in November, AP reports. Police sources said two gang leaders in particular organized the street violence that included armed rioters in what they...

Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

Feb 16, 2008 12:53 PM CST

Critics Blast Sarkozy's Holocaust School Plan

Prez wants each 5th grader to study a victim

(Newser) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a new controversy: The maverick leader is now defending his plan to have every fifth grader study a French youth killed in the Holocaust. Critics, including Jewish analysts, warn the move could traumatize students. But one historian applauded Sarkozy's "courage" and said what...

Bruni Sorry for Nazi Outburst

Feb 14, 2008 9:53 AM CST

Bruni Sorry for Nazi Outburst

First lady compared website editors to collaborationists

(Newser) - France's first lady of less than 2 weeks has already had her first run-in with the media, after incautiously comparing a gossip website with Nazi collaborators, reports the Independent. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy yesterday apologized for an interview in which she denounced a website that printed a dubious item about her new...

Sarko Junior
Makes His
Political Debut

Feb 12, 2008 5:45 AM CST

Sarko Junior Makes His Political Debut

Jean, 21, emerges as player in dad's old suburb of Neuilly

(Newser) - Before becoming France's hyper-president, Nicolas Sarkozy was mayor of chic Parisian suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine, the country's richest town. But only weeks before a mayoral election, his hand-picked successor has withdrawn from the race after losing a powerful supporter: Jean Sarkozy, the president's own 21-year-old son. Many are now wondering about the...

Sarkozy Denies Desperate Text to Ex-Wife

Feb 11, 2008 1:25 PM CST

Sarkozy Denies Desperate Text to Ex-Wife

Prez debunks report that he offered to dump Bruni for Cecilia

(Newser) - "If you come back, I'll call it all off," Nicolas Sarkozy said in a desperate text message to ex-wife Cecilia just 8 days before he married Carla Bruni—or so says a magazine website now being sued by the French president. But the magazine's editor has said he...

Sarko's Love Life Now 3
Open Books

Feb 10, 2008 9:51 AM CST

Sarko's Love Life Now 3 Open Books

Bruni wanted man with nuke power, says 1 new tome on courtship

(Newser) - Ooh-la-la, that French president Nicolas Sarkozy has a certain je ne sais quoi when it comes to marrying beautiful women, n'est-ce pas? But now his secret is out and his wife-wooing technique is carefully detailed in three new books rushed to print, reports the Times of London.

Sarko Unveils Rescue Plan for the 'Burbs

Feb 8, 2008 11:04 AM CST

Sarko Unveils Rescue Plan for the 'Burbs

He will beef up police, boost jobs to try to conquer poverty, ethnic tension

(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy unveiled a three-year plan to resurrect the poverty-torn suburbs of France, saying the "very idea of the nation is at stake." The plan calls for a major boost in police officers to crack down on pervasive drug dealers, the BBC reports, along with a bid to...

Wedding Over, Time for Sarko to Woo French

Feb 4, 2008 10:10 AM CST

Wedding Over, Time for Sarko to Woo French

Disgruntled voters look for newlywed prez to get back to work

(Newser) - The French breathed a collective sigh of relief after Nicolas Sarkozy's weekend wedding, hoping it allows the lovestruck president to move beyond the whirlwind romance that made his work suffer and his approval ratings plummet. But as Sarkozy goes back to work, the possible extent of his damage control remains...

Meet the Man Putting Paris
in Motion

Feb 3, 2008 4:31 PM CST

Meet the Man Putting Paris in Motion

Ex-socialist is now Sarko's buddy and France's star politician

(Newser) - Bernard Kouchner was once a card-carrying socialist hurling red ink at the American Embassy in Paris. Now, as France’s foreign minister, he’s President Nicolas Sarkozy’s right-hand man, helping to rebuild long-strained ties with the US. He also may be France’s most popular politician. The New York ...

Blair Eyes Role as
Europe's First President

Feb 2, 2008 12:38 PM CST

Blair Eyes Role as Europe's First President

Ex-British PM wants post to have strong say on defense, trade

(Newser) - Tony Blair is angling to become Europe’s first president, the Guardian reports, but the former British PM wants to be assured the EU’s new top job will come with real authority on defense and trade. Blair, currently the Mideast envoy for the US, EU, UN, and Russia, has...

Sarkozy, Bruni Wed (Finally)

Feb 2, 2008 8:36 AM CST

Sarkozy, Bruni Wed (Finally)

Whirlwind romance culminates in Elysee Palace ceremony

(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy has finally made an honest woman out of his supermodel-cum-singer girlfriend, Reuters says. The French president married Carla Bruni, 40, today at the Elysee Palace in a hush-hush ceremony atypical for the usually public couple. The mayor of a Paris district who officiated the nuptials said the bride...

Breakup Rumors Swirl Around SocGen

Jan 29, 2008 12:11 PM CST

Breakup Rumors Swirl Around SocGen

Fraud-plagued French bank may be too big for single bidder

(Newser) - Wounded Société Générale is looking more and more like a takeover target, prompting France's prime minister to jump into the fray today and say the government would defend the country's second-largest bank against hostile raids, the Wall Street Journal reports. With a $7.1 billion loss from...

Bruni Greets Journo Topless

Jan 25, 2008 10:02 AM CST

Bruni Greets Journo Topless

Buffy the Sarko-slayer indeed, Daily Mail writer finds

(Newser) - Carla Bruni may have the press corps covering her fiancé—French President Nicolas Sarkozy—atwitter, but it can’t be said that the model keeps cards too close to her chest, reports the Daily Mail's Simon Mills, whom Bruni recently greeted with these fittingly plain words: “Sorry for...

Get a Receipt for Those Candlesticks

Jan 22, 2008 7:52 PM CST

Get a Receipt for Those Candlesticks

Bruni says she and Sarkozy haven't tied the knot—yet

(Newser) - Carla Bruni has not yet become Mrs. Nicolas Sarkozy. In an interview with Liberation, the French president's ex-model girlfriend also made life easier for Indian officials by saying she won't accompany Sarkozy on his upcoming official trip there. Protocol-meisters in the conservative country, where unmarried couples are unusual, weren't sure...

Battle for
Le Monde
Heats Up

Jan 22, 2008 4:37 PM CST

Battle for Le Monde Heats Up

Editor tries to keep Sarkozy ally from gaining control

(Newser) - A showdown over the future of one of the world's most prestigious newspapers has come to a head after the editor in chief of Le Monde said he would fight to keep a bosom buddy of Nicolas Sarkozy's from taking over the paper. The French evening newspaper lost $14.5...

Reform Plan Roils French

Jan 22, 2008 1:04 PM CST

Reform Plan Roils French

300-point proposal dares to relax rules, strip protections

(Newser) - In his bid to shake up French society, Nicolas Sarkozy commissioned a leading Socialist to head a 40-member committee to "unleash the economic growth that France is lacking." Its report, to be released tomorrow, contains an explosive set of proposals. The 300 items range from constructing high-tech cities...

India Blushes Over Sarko, Bruni

Jan 19, 2008 1:00 PM CST

India Blushes Over Sarko, Bruni

Conservative country unsure how to host could-be first lady

(Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy’s ambiguous relationship with Carla Bruni has India up in arms over how to deal with the French president’s upcoming visit. Reports say Sarkozy and Bruni were secretly married recently, but Sakrozy won’t confirm or deny, leaving Indian officials to ponder what the protocol is for...