Pension protests in France put pressure on Sarko
French workers take to the streets over pension reform but a bottle of champagne is on President Sarkozy holding his nerve says Lindsey Hilsum.
French workers take to the streets over pension reform but a bottle of champagne is on President Sarkozy holding his nerve says Lindsey Hilsum.
Forget how many men Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has slept with – the big headline America has grabbed out of a juicy new biography of the French first lady is the revelation that Michelle Obama thinks
The wheels of justice turn slowly, they say. And sometimes they don’t turn at all, until something or someone sends them spinning.
BOULOGNE, FRANCE – I’m sitting surveying the docks in Boulogne-sur-Mer – which, I’m told, is France’s premier fishing port. Not for much longer. Fishermen from
STRASBOURG, FRANCE – I just had the plane journey from hell. First it took off almost three hours later than planned, because European airspace had to be cleared for Barack Obama and 27