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Eric Pape
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Mar 28, 2007 02:30 AM
By Eric Pape and Christopher Dickey Just how polarizing is Nicolas Sarkozy for kids from France 's tough suburbs? Passengers heading into Paris 's Gare du Nord international train station got an idea yesterday. The answer came in the form of projectiles...
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Christopher Dickey
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Mar 25, 2007 07:17 AM
Ségolène Royal has suddenly wrapped her campaign in the blue, white and red flag of France while singing La Marseillaise . This might sound predictable for any presidential candidate, but for one from the French left, in fact, it's not. The Socialists...
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Christopher Dickey
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Mar 25, 2007 07:02 AM
"Now that he's hoisted himself up to the front row, voters listen to him differently and have expectations that he hasn't satisfied yet." -- Dominique Reynié, professor at The Institute for Political Studies in Paris, speaking in today's Journal du Dimanche...
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Eric Pape
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Mar 24, 2007 08:32 AM
Yes, there are blogs, websites, satirical music videos and You-Tube-friendly "gotcha" moments -- all the modern campaign tools of the Internet-connected world. But the most vibrantly French element of the 2007 presidential campaign comes from the nation's...
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Christopher Dickey
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Mar 23, 2007 06:13 AM
The French are masters of cordial loathing, elegantly tearing each other apart with phrases said and unsaid. But it's rare you see such a striking example as the one provided by President Jacques Chirac earlier this week when he announced that conservative...
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Eric Pape
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Mar 19, 2007 02:22 PM
France 's Constitutional Council announced this evening that only 12 out of 21 presidential hopefuls actually will be allowed on the ballot come election day. The rest were unable to muster the requisite 500 signatures (known as " parrainages" ) from...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 18, 2007 07:45 AM
For the third week in a row the French press is excerpting a book by a male politician discovering the shrew in Ségolène Royal. First there was conservative former prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin publicly feeling sorry for Royal's partner, Fran...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 18, 2007 07:34 AM
Newsweek International March 26, 2007 issue - A month before the French go to the polls, François Bayrou's greatest asset seems to be who he's not. As voters have wearied of the in-your-face UMP party candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and the Socialists' Ségolène...
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Eric Pape
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Mar 17, 2007 03:23 AM
Green is the new black, a can't-lose issue for hip middle-aged conservatives these days. No surprise then that France 's right-wing presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, perhaps catching a tailwind from Britain 's mountain-bike riding conservative opposition...
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Eric Pape
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Mar 12, 2007 09:51 PM
It is sometimes said that you can get the clearest view of a man as he makes his way toward the door. So what does that tell us about Jacques Chirac, who finally announced Sunday that he would not run for another term as France 's president? Chirac may...
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Christopher Dickey
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Mar 11, 2007 07:30 AM
Newsweek International March 19, 2007 issue - Rarely has a foreign dignitary "especially a French one "gushed so effusively about what's right with America . When Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy spoke at the headquarters of the Daughters of the American...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 10, 2007 05:23 AM
Karl Zéro, the wickedly funny and widely watched French television star, is about to shake up the French elections with a full-bore blast at both the leading candidates. Z é ro's new film, "S é go and Sarko are in the Same Boat," given a limited release...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 10, 2007 04:18 AM
By Tracy McNicoll Cl é ment Pitton, 23, has a message for those presidential candidates who are more than twice his age: "We Will Not Pay Your Debt." A group he founded called Impulsion Concorde claims it already has collected more than 8,000...
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Eric Pape
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Mar 9, 2007 02:08 PM
By Eric Pape When polls showed French conservative Nicolas Sarkozy pulling away from Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal last month, Sarkozy sniffed the air theatrically in front of the journalists trailing him. He said he could almost "smell"...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 6, 2007 10:28 AM
French Culture Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres told Le Monde over the weekend that he would love to keep his job under a Sarkozy presidency. So, with S é golène Royal the main obstacle to that contract renewal, the minister's remarks in New Orleans...
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Christopher Dickey
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Mar 4, 2007 01:12 PM
The agricultural fair in Paris is always a great venue for French politicians to show just how much they love French farmers, along with foie gras, charcuterie, cheeses, oysters, wines and other wonders of the terroir, not to mention bulls and cows, rams...
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Eric Pape
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Mar 3, 2007 10:11 AM
Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, presidential candidate and self-styled top cop, isn't making a lot of campaign stops in the neighborhoods where fiery riots erupted less than a year and a half ago. The real cops on that turf may well be concerned that...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 2, 2007 07:19 AM
Former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin was wildly unpopular by the time he left office in 2005, but he does have a certain raffish charm. In the 1970s, he'd sometimes get on stage with a rock band, looking for all the world like France's answer to...
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Tracy McNicoll
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Mar 1, 2007 04:24 PM
"I'm not saying it will be easy. I think the first two years will be difficult, because we'll have to invest massively in training, education, and innovation. I say to the French that, for a year, year and a half, we'll have to grit our teeth. We'll have...
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