Rfi: Former far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on Monday launched her bid to win election to France’s National Assembly next month from the northern French town of Hénin-Beaumont. She played down a challenge from hard-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon, who at the weekendannounced that he will oppose her there. Details. […]
Angela Merkel and François Hollande to have first face-to-face talks in Berlin after eurozone finance ministers meet in Brussels. Europe is braced for a crucial 48 hours of high-stakes summitry […]
Rfi. Sarkozy could face questioning as soon as mid-June because he will lose his immunity a month after his successor, Socialist Francois Hollande, is sworn in on May 15. Sarkozy denies any wrongdoing but might have to face court proceedings. His predecessor Jacques Chirac was convicted last year and given […]
France24. French President Nicolas Sarkozy and president-elect François Hollande appeared side by side in Paris on Tuesday for the first time since the pre-election debate on May 2 to commemorate the end of the Second World War. After a bitter election that culminated with the victory of the Socialist Hollande […]
France24. In style and probably in substance, France’s incoming president could not be more different than the country’s outgoing leader. François Hollande’s political rise to the country’s top post has been slow and steady, with the French media portraying him as “Monsieur Normal” – an easygoing, everyday man. Contrast that […]
Rfi. For those who wondered during the campaign whether François Hollande was just talking tough in the hope of winning votes, his victory speech last night made things crystal clear. “Europe is watching us”, he said, declaring that the French vote would give hope to other countries that “austerity is […]
Credit: Asia Time: By Pepe Escobar Europe may just be living a remix of the late 2008 moment when Barack Obama won the presidency in the United States. But this time, will it be real? The election on Sunday of socialist Francois Hollande as president of France comes at an […]
France24. François Hollande has won France’s presidential election, giving the country its first Socialist president in almost two decades, exit polls showed Sunday. According to Ipsos polling institute, the left-wing candidate took 51.7% of the vote to incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy’s 48.3%. Celebrations are underway at the iconic Place de la Bastille […]
Rfi. ince 1958 only Giscard d’Estaing has failed to win a second term, apart from Georges Pompidou who he died in office. Sarkozy, whose popularity slumped while he was in office, staged a determined comeback campaign, reducing Hollande’s lead over him in the polls. But he lost when it counted […]
April 24, 2012 Rfi. France. Emerging from a meeting with colleagues on Monday, Socialist party leader Martine Aubry told journalists that Hollande had “only one strategy: to get France back on its feet, to put justice back at the centre of all our decisions and unite the French, in other […]
Credit BBC News Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected as France’s new president. He got about 52% of votes in Sunday’s run-off, according to early projections, against 48% for centre-right […]
France 24. Centrist also-ran presidential candidate François Bayrou announced late on Thursday that he will be voting for socialist nominee François Hollande in the election’s second round on Sunday.Some French columnists put this surprise about-face – for centrists traditionally throw their support rightward – down to political expediency rather than […]
Rfi. France. Voting in the deciding round of France’s presidential election started on Saturday on a group of islands off Canada. Mainland France votes Sunday with Socialist challenger François Hollande showing a narrow lead in the polls over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. Voting started at midday Saturday in Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, […]
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Credit: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar He posed in spectacular grandeur as the neo-imperial Liberator of Libya – only a few years after Colonel Muammar Gaddafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign with a cool US$65 million. Profiting from a mysterious alliance between the Holy Ghost and an African chambermaid […]
By JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARAB NEWS STAFF The secretary-general of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation has urged the international community to take effective action to prevent growing Islamophobia or enmity toward Islam and Muslims all over the world. “Islamophobia is on the rise. In fact, it has entered […]
FRANCE 24 A day after locking horns with incumbent French President Nicolas Sarkozy in a heated televised debate, Socialist candidate François Hollande told FRANCE 24 and RFI on Thursday he was satisfied with his performance. “I think the debate unfolded as I hoped it would,” said Hollande, who admitted to having […]
Euronews: Another voice, that of former Libyan prime minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who is in prison in Tunisia, has added his support to the accusation that French President Nicolas Sarkozy took […]
Rfi France. Sarkozy has made no secret of chasing the more than six million voters who picked far-right. His speeches have concentrated on race, Islam and law and order, themes dear to her Front National (FN).candidate Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s first round of France’s presidential poll.On Thursday the Sarkozy camp asserted […]
By AGENCIES ARABBEWS PARIS/TRIPOLI: Muammar Qaddafi’s regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign to the tune of 50 million euros, a news website reported yesterday, publishing […]