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Santa Barbara Independent
| 1 year ago
Brandon Fastman Prudential real estate agent Pascale Bassan (left) hosts polling site for the French presidential election S.B. Hosts Polling Site for French Presidential Election Ousted Incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy Receives Majority Vote in Town...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Francois Hollande and Nicolas Sarkozy commemorate end of second world war in Europe video France's president-elect, Francois Hollande, and his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy attend Victory Day commemorations together at the Arc de Triomphe in Place de l'...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
Belarus The leader of Belarus has entered the controversy over claims that Libya under Muammar Qaddafi funded French President Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 election campaign. President Alexander Lukashenko says the late Libyan leader told him when he...
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The Olympia
| 1 year ago
In three separate elections, voters rejected the belt-tightening that governments imposed in response to Europe's debt crisis. Greek voters punished the political parties that accepted a bailout in return for making painful spending cuts. Election...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
The price of crude oil in New York settled at $98.01 per barrel Monday, with pressure coming from European election results and U.S. economic data. West Texas Intermediate crude oil for June delivery slipped to $96.88 per barrel early in the day,...
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Asbarez
| 1 year ago
Combined Sources)French Socialist candidate Francois Hollande beat incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy during Sunday's elections. With 95 per cent of the vote counted, official results showed Hollande with 51.6 per cent of the vote compared with...
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The Sun UK
| 1 year ago
Stories Socialist Hollande wants an economic recovery focused on growth, not cuts. But Berlin said he must stick to a fiscal treaty agreed last year. A challenge to EU belt-tightening priorities was a central plank of Hollande's election campaign.
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Nicolas Sarkozy, the departing French President, deserves praise for his active co-operation in the Western alliance; he was less effective in his attempts to reform the French economy...Forty-three years earlier, Charles de Gaulle had decided that...
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 1 year ago
Political upheavals in Europe, including a newly elected anti-austerity president in France and a Greek election that created a fractured parliament, are rattling economic markets and adding uncertainty to plans for eurozone spending cuts. Socialist...
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The Independent
| 1 year ago
News in pictures On Facebook From the blogs The most read blogs this week, as determined by stats. Be wary of those who confidently assert that our present economic malaise is a consequence of high h.....So, while Friday to Sunday will keep you...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
A photo of Barack Obama in a campaign video for French President Nicolas Sarkozy is upsetting the team of Sarkozy's rival, Socialist Francois Hollande. Hollande's campaign chief Pierre Moscovici said Friday he was surprised that the photo of Obama...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
U.S. stocks are opening lower after the government reported that hiring slowed in April, confirming a slew of data during the month that showed the economy was weakening...When he came to power in 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy seemed just the man...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
When he came to power in 2007, President Nicolas Sarkozy seemed just the man to shake up France's sclerotic economy with his promises of a break from the past. However, any optimism surrounding his victory five years ago has been replaced by cynicism...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
His Socialist challenger, frontrunner Francois Hollande, wraps up his election campaign by paying tribute to Sarkozy. Latest opinion polls give Hollande an average lead of six points over Sarkozy
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
A centrist who was a minister with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the 1990s said he would vote for Francois Hollande in Sunday's presidential runoff. Francois Bayrou, who was education minister when Sarkozy was communications minister from 1993...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Sarkozy is holding a rally at lunchtime in the western Vendee area at lunchtime, while Hollande will address supporters later Friday in Moselle, to the east of France. Campaigning ends at midnight Friday ahead of Sunday's runoff vote for the...
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Newyork Times
| 1 year ago
In a grimy corner cafe on a street above Marseille's Vieux Port, the only concession the owners have made to a strict nationwide smoking ban is to have removed the ashtrays. France's Mediterranean metropolis likes to follow its own rules. The barman...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
In a grimy corner cafe on a street above Marseille's Vieux Port, the only concession the owners have made to a strict nationwide smoking ban is to have removed the ashtrays. France's Mediterranean metropolis likes to follow its own rules. The barman...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
The final polls before France's presidential election Sunday show President Nicolas Sarkozy making up ground on Socialist challenger Francois Hollande but still predict a Hollande victory. Sarkozy on Friday predicted a "surprise" and Hollande urged...
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New Statesman
| 1 year ago
If Sarkozy loses to Francois Hollande, it will be the end of the brash Republique de Bling, not the end of the Republique de Grandeur. For many French people, between 2007 and 2012 Sarkozy betrayed Charles de Gaulle's Republic, replacing its grandeur...
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Epoch Times
| 1 year ago
French president for the next five years, takes place Sunday May 6, and if the latest opinion polls are correct, Conservative incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy could lose his job to Socialist Francois Hollande. Current polls indicate Sarkozy will be defeated...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Final day of campaigning 4 May 2012 Last updated at 02:48 ET Nicolas Sarkozy and Francois Hollande are embarking on their final day of major campaigning ahead of Sunday's French presidential election. Mr Hollande is leading in opinion polls but...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Less than a year after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, Libyans are ripping up the colonel's rule-book. Boxing was outlawed under Gaddafi, who apparently deemed it too aggressive. This time last year, setting up a boxing club like this one in Tripoli...
