The boldness of Nicolas Sarkozy
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In April, France's new finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, met with US National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington.
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Jacques Chirac's potential successors _ including the head of his own party, Nicolas Sarkozy _ are racing to distance themselves from the French president's legacy that critics say is marred by economic ...Comment
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Biography quotes Cecilia Sarkozy describing the French president as a seducer and skinflint
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Investor's Business Daily - Europe: France&#39;s Nicolas Sarkozy seems serious about the big changes -- &quot;la rupture&quot; -- he vowed to make if elected president. In his first foreign policy address, he was forceful, positive and rooted in Western values.
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Nicolas Sarkozy has been inaugurated as president of France. Will he lead the country in the right direction?
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Creating a defence and aerospace industrial champion centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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PARIS - For President Nicolas Sarkozy, a day does not get much darker than this.
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French Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has taken one step closer to a bid for the presidency, taking the helm of President Jacques Chirac&#39;s party.
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Come Monday, President Nicolas Sarkozy will likely be one of Europe's most powerful leaders. With the government, parliament and top state bodies under his conservative camp's control, he should face little political resistance as he seeks to reshape France.
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Now that Carla Bruni is his bride, Nicolas Sarkozy is focusing again on running France: endorsing a showcase super-fast train, promising to rescue steel workers threatened with layoffs and negotiating with labor leaders.
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This could have been Francois Hollande's moment of glory. As leader of France's Socialists, he could have used his powerful job as a springboard to the party's presidential nomination, just like Francois Mitterrand did in the 1980s.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's role in Tuesday's release of five Bulgarian nurses was touted as another success amid EU lethargy. But some say his frenetic diplomacy lacks substance.
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French centre-right presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy sets out his foreign policy vision.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy, his new government in place and five years in power ahead of him, vowed Wednesday to carry out swiftly the &quot;daring&quot; reform programme that helped get him elected last month.
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...
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Mr. Sarkozy proved to be the crucial figure during a European Union meeting, helping to break down the resistance of Polandâs identical-twin leaders to a deal.
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Presentation of the 2005 budget marks the centre-piece of his brief tenancy, and Sarkozy is banking on strong public approval so that he can leave the government on a high note.