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Report claims Kadhafi regime ‘agreed to fund Sarkozy 2007 campaign’
Moamer Kadhafi’s regime agreed to fund French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s 2007 election campaign to the tune of 50 million euros, a news website reported Saturday, publishing what it said was documentary evidence. The 2006 document in Arabic, which website Mediapart said was signed by Kadhafi’s foreign intelligence chief Mussa Kussa,…
Sarkozy says no deal with far-right
French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Wednesday he would not do a deal with the far-right, but insisted those who vote for Marine Le Pen’s National Front should not be demonised. Both Sarkozy and his Socialist challenger Francois Hollande finished ahead of Le Pen in Sunday’s first round vote in…
French senate bans denial of Armenia genocide
PARIS — French senators have passed a bill outlawing the denial of the Armenian genocide in 1915, with a seething Turkey slamming the move and warning of consequences while Armenia hailed a day “written in gold.” The French Senate on Monday approved, by 127 votes to 86, the measure which…
France threatens to pull troops out of Afghanistan ahead of schedule
PARIS (Reuters) – France threatened on Friday to pull out early from the NATO-led war in Afghanistan after four a rogue Afghan soldier opened fire on French soldiers, killing four and wounding about 15 others. The killings in the Taghab valley of Afghanistan’s eastern Kapisa province were the latest in…
Intervention in Iran ‘would trigger war’: France’s Sarkozy
French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned Friday that any foreignmilitary intervention against Iran’s nuclear programme would trigger “war and chaos” across the Middle East and beyond. “Time is limited. France will do everything to avoid military intervention, but there is only one way to avoid it: a much tougher, more decisive, sanctions regime,” Sarkozy told an audience…
Turkey to launch sanctions against France over genocide bill
ANKARA — Ankara will announce sanctions against Paris, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday on the eve of a debate in the French parliament on a law criminalising the denial of the Armenian genocide by Turkish forces. “Tomorrow probably I will announce what we will do at the first…
France, Germany seek support in scramble to save euro
France and Germany drummed up support for their plan to fix the eurozone on Thursday as European leaders geared up for a do-or-die summit to save the debt-laden currency union from collapse. With hours to go before the EU summit in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas…
U.S. backs euro ahead of crunch summit
US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner voiced confidence on Wednesday that the European Union will find a way out of its debt crisis when he met eurozone leaders ahead of a crucial EU summit inBrussels. “I assessed how important it is for the US and countries around the world that Europe succeed,” Geithner…
Sarkozy, Merkel to thrash out euro crisis plan
French President Nicolas Sarkozy hosts German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday to thrash out details of a plan to save the euro at the start of a pivotal week for the single currency. The meeting comes as Italy kicked off the crucial week with a draconian austerity package of cuts, taxes and pension reforms to…
Germany, France push for ‘fiscal union’
German Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked off a crunch week of talks on saving the euro by laying out a vision Friday for a “fiscal union” in Europe, ahead of a pivotal summit of EU leaders. A day after French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that Europe needed to be “refounded” in…
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