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July 2007
- Charges Loom for Former French PM
  
  Times (UK) | Jul 6, 07 4:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin is expected to face criminal conspiracy charges following the discovery of new evidence linking him to a dirty tricks campaign against President Nicolas Sarkozy, the Times of London reports. Police yesterday searched his Paris home after investigators found computer data suggesting he directed a plot to implicate Sarkozy in a 2004 bribery scandal. More »
June 2007
- Sarkozy Is Europe's New Clinton
  
  Der Spiegel | Jun 25, 07 12:31 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy was the star of the EU’s constitutional summit last weekend, pulling victory from the jaws of defeat with a virtuoso diplomatic performance reminiscent of the former president. The new PM displayed what Der Spiegel called ‘Clintonesque ease’ in solving big problems, returning France to her traditional role as Europe’s diplomat. More »
- Sarkozy's Party Loses Ground to Socialists
  
  New York Times | Jun 18, 07 6:34 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The French left refused to roll over and play dead in parliamentary elections yesterday, giving Nicolas Sarkozy a smaller majority than expected. Sarkozy's Conservative Party won a strong enough mandate to push through its ambitious tax cuts and easing of labor restrictions, the New York Times reports, but loses some psychological momentum. More »
- Sarko Looks Blotto at G8
  
  Guardian (UK) | Jun 13, 07 9:23 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Vladimir Putin may have tested out some liquid diplomacy at the G8 summit. After a long meeting with the Russian leader, freshly elected French president Nicolas Sarkozy showed up late to a press conference and appeared inebriated, fumbling for words, giggling, and swaying at the podium. More »
- Sarkozy Says 'Non' to Turkey's Euro Hopes
  
  Financial Times (UK) | Jun 13, 07 5:11 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - France is threatening to block Turkey's full membership in the European Union this month and hopes to push the nation into a "privileged partnership" short of complete participation, the Financial Times reports. It's the first time new French President Nicolas Sarkozy will flex his political muscle in an EU controversy. More »
- Sarkozy Preps for Landslide in Parliament
  
  BBC | Jun 11, 07 8:33 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - More Paris news: Nicolas Sarkozy's UMP party is making a beeline towards a landslide in the French parliamentary election, according to first round polls. UMP could win at least 383 of 577 seats, meaning a serious mandate for Sarko to push through rightish economic reforms. But the election is anyone's game until next week's second round. More »
May 2007
- Sarko, Ségo Shake Things Up
  
  New York Review of Books | May 31, 07 12:33 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - France has been gripped by a serious case of political stagnation, and the recent election between two bright young things—Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal—has smashed it out of its stupor, William Pfaff reflects in the New York Review of Books . More »
- Sarkozy Taps Close Adviser to Be PM
  
  BBC | May 17, 07 9:56 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy named chief campaign adviser Francois Fillon his prime minister today, replacing firebrand Dominique de Villepin. Fillon, a right-of-center senator who directed an overhaul of France's pension system as a Chirac administration official, will lead Sarkozy's effort to institute reforms in employment and welfare laws. Fillon, whose wife is Welsh, is an "avowed Anglophile," the Telegraph reported. More »
- Germany, UK Court Sarkozy in EU Dispute
  
  Times (UK) | May 17, 07 6:43 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Hours after Nicolas Sarkozy became president of France, both Germany and Britain began wooing him—Germany to win his support for a European constitution, Britain to secure his opposition to it. Sarkozy immediately huddled with Angela Merkel, the German chancellor who has been lobbying hold-outs with one-on-one talks, the London Times reports. More »
- Secretive French Office Wields Power in Africa
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 16, 07 9:45 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The election of Nicolas Sarkozy could end the influence of the "African Cell," a tiny French government office that exerts great power in Africa. Since 1958, the Cell has used the French military to install and protect African leaders it considers friendly, opening it to charges that it supports nondemocratic regimes, the Journal reports. More »
- Unions Fire Warning Shots At Sarkozy
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 8, 07 6:00 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Nicolas Sarkozy could be on a collision course with French labor unions over his "economic evolution." The president-elect wooed voters with proposals to extend the 35-hour work week, slash welfare, curb the right to strike and cut taxes. But even as Sarkozy headed to Malta before taking office next week, union leaders were flexing muscles. More »
- Ou Est Mme. Sarkozy?
  
  Times (UK) | May 7, 07 10:57 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - To add frisson to the French election, new president Nicolas Sarkozy is already facing questions about his rocky marriage to his glamorous second wife, Cecilia. The London Times reports the former model, who once said she was "bored stiff" at the idea of being France's First Lady, was conspicuously absent from the campaign trail and appeared only briefly at victory celebrations. More »
- Sarkozy Sees Mandate for New France
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 7, 07 6:29 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared an economic revolution for France and closer friendship with the United States to thousands of jubilant supporters at Paris's Place de La Concorde last night. But there were riots in Bastille and car burnings in the suburbs as disappointed Socialists reacted to the pugnacious right winger's victory. More »
- Sarko Takes French Presidency
  
  BBC | May 6, 07 1:41 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Nicholas Sarkozy, a right-leaning Hungarian immigrant's son, will be the next president of France, according to initial results from the final round of elections there. Sarkozy's victory within an 85% turnout dashed the hopes of a galvanized Socialist Party, and its candidate Ségolène Royal, of placing the first woman in France's highest office. More »
- Royal Slams Sarkozy in French Debate
  
  Guardian (UK) | May 3, 07 6:25 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Socialist candidate Ségolene Royal scored points for passion and toughness, and conservative Nicolas Sarkozy for policy brilliance in the French presidential debate last night. Commentators said Royal, who was trailing in opinion polls, helped close the gap by seizing the offensive, turning the tables on the notoriously combative Sarkozy. More »
April 2007
- French Winners Woo Centrist
  
  BBC | Apr 24, 07 5:45 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Defeated presidential candidate Francois Bayrou is now the most wanted man in France, as Sarko and Ségo compete to woo his seven million voters. Socialist Ségolène Royal has appealed directly to Bayrou to form an alliance, while right-wing Nicolas Sarkozy is rebranding himself as a centrist-friendly “candidate of openness.” More »
- Sarkozy, Royal in French Runoff
  
  CNN | Apr 22, 07 3:03 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Conservative Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Segolene Royal won the first round of voting today to succeed French president Jacques Chirac, CNN reports. Based on vote counts from hundreds of polling stations, Sarkozy drew 30.46% of the votes, and Royal 24.41%. They will face each other in a runoff election May 6. More »