Tag: Nicolas Sarkozy

• Tuesday, March 2nd 2021 - 08:01 UTC

  Ex president Sarkozy found guilty of corruption: end of political career?

  

  Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found guilty of corruption on Monday (March 1) and handed a three-year prison sentence after a court in Paris convicted him for trying to illegally influence a judge during his time in office.

• Tuesday, March 20th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

  Ex-president Sarkozy, arrested for supposed illegal financing

  

  Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been arrested on Tuesday at west of Paris as part of an investigation that revealed he received millions of euros in illegal financing from the regime of the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in 2007.

• Monday, November 21st 2016 - 11:51 UTC

  Sarkozy retires from politics after losing rightwing primary elections

  

  “It is time for me to approach a life with more private passion and less public passion,” he said as he announced he would endorse his former prime minister, François Fillon, in the second round of voting next Sunday against Alain Juppé, also a former Prime Minister under Jacques Chirac.

• Monday, December 14th 2015 - 07:07 UTC

  Sarkozy conservatives take the day beating Le Pen's National Front

  

  Marine Le Pen's far-right National Front failed to take a single region during the runoff of regional elections after dominating the first round of voting, pollsters projected. The conservatives of former president Nicolas Sarkozy surged against the governing Socialists, changing the political map of France.

• Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:32 UTC

  French local elections confirm come back of Sarkozy and containment of Marie Le Pen

  

  The far-right National Front (FN) made only limited gains in French local elections won by ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy's conservatives. The anti-immigrant, anti-EU party is likely to have won up to 108 local council seats, from holding only one currently. But they will have too few in any one of the 102 “departements” to control any of them, updated Sunday exit polls showed.

• Wednesday, July 2nd 2014 - 07:35 UTC

  EU upholds ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil: niqab

  

  The European Court of Human Rights has upheld a ban by France on wearing the Muslim full-face veil, the niqab. A case was brought by a 24-year-old French woman, who argued that the ban on wearing the veil in public violated her freedom of religion and expression.

• Monday, March 31st 2014 - 15:53 UTC

  “Black Sunday” for French Socialists, although they managed to retain Paris

  

  French President Francois Hollande is set to take the axe to his beleaguered government after it suffered humiliating losses in local elections in which the far-right National Front (FN) made historic gains.

• Friday, November 29th 2013 - 07:39 UTC

  Mercosur must have an only voice and act as a block, advises former leader Sarkozy

  

  “Mercosur must have greater integration, act with an only voice and operate as a block”, advised former French president Nicholas Sarkozy at a business conference in Buenos Aires, where he also underlined that without the European Union, “France or Germany could have disappeared from the world map”

• Friday, April 19th 2013 - 05:39 UTC

  IMF chief summoned to appear before French court over an arbitration payment

  

  IMF chief Christine Lagarde has been summoned to appear before a French magistrate on May 23 for questioning over an arbitration payment to a wealthy supporter of former President Nicholas Sarkozy, news website Mediapart reported.

• Monday, March 4th 2013 - 05:06 UTC

  The “entente fugale” and the French point of view on defence of the Falklands

  

  Dubbed the “entente frugale” and criticised by some as a dangerous dilution of military sovereignty, Franco-British defence cooperation is nonetheless growing stronger. Shrinking budgets, a less indulgent United States and Europe’s diminishing military clout in the world have bolstered the two countries’ determination to work together.