Blog posts tagged "Nicolas Sarkozy"

October 8, 2010 7:33 am 21 Comments

For the last years of Labour’s time in power, bilateral summits between France and Britain became a commonplace. At the last one between Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy, the French offered a deal to share aspects of their nuclear deterrent – submarine patrols that would reduce the need to have so many Trident Subs, and [...]

December 10, 2009 12:03 pm 12 Comments

Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy put aside old rivalries to set out a joint vision for a stronger economic future, blogs Jon Snow for Channel 4 News.

April 1, 2009 8:28 am No Comments

I’m sitting the Locarno room at the Foreign Office waiting with 200 other hacks for the Obama/Brown press conference, and even in this august circumstance there’s an air of a palpable expectation. Not of course in terms of economic breakthrough but the mere arrival of The Man.