Posts tagged with 'Nicolas Sarkozy'

06 May 12 No Comments

France is falling again for the mantra of change

Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande, France’s two presidential candidates, both talk of change – but what they are actually engaged in, blogs Jonathan Rugman, is the business of

24 Apr 12 No Comments

Tamper with France at your peril?

Jonathan Rugman asks whether this really is the end for Nicolas Sarkozy and what that could mean for France.

22 Apr 12 3 Comments

Hollande or Sarkozy? The differences explained

Why would France vote for either Hollande or Sarkozy in today’s elections? Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman explains.

19 Apr 12 3 Comments

It’s time for change says France’s ‘Mr Normal’

Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on François Hollande – the man hoping to topple President Sarkozy in the French elections.

16 Apr 12 1 Comment

Sarkozy’s last weapon: the politics of fear

Channel 4 News Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jonathan Rugman blogs on the French presidential elections

23 Sep 10 2 Comments

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.

02 Mar 10 1 Comment

Time for France and Rwanda to bury the machete

The wheels of justice turn slowly, they say. And sometimes they don’t turn at all, until something or someone sends them spinning.

08 Jul 09 3 Comments

A bluffer's guide to this week's G8 summit

By the time you are reading this I hope to be supping on mozzarella di bufala in a medieval Italian hilltop town full of churches stuffed with paintings by Renaissance masters. The reality will