News Source: Washington Post
| 1 day ago
Notre Dame de la Garde, an elegant Roman Catholic basilica, has stood for 150 years on a promontory just south of Marseille's Old Port, looking down protectively as fishermen push out to the sea and symbolizing the irrepressible spirit of this fabled
News Source: The Nation
| 1 day ago
His tone suggested he was paying me some sort of compliment, though I found it odd that he would want the 1 million Moroccans in his country to be carbon copies of someone he had barely met and whose views on immigration--had he asked about them--he
News Source: The independent
| 2 days ago
Just before the France-Ireland football match in Paris, I met my charming, gentle, retired, 60-something, French neighbour on the stairs of our Paris apartment building. "No," he said. "I'm not watching the match...The team disgusts me because they
News Source: Times Online
| 13 days ago
The European Alliance of National Movements would fight “this monstrous federal Europe” from within, Mr Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, said as he shared a platform with the veteran French far-right figurehead and a Hungarian
News Source: The Guardian
| 19 days ago
France is torn asunder by great debate over its national identity It is a question worthy of a nation that prides itself on its philosophers, but the reasons why it was asked at all have merely deepened political and racial divisions Men having
News Source: The Guardian
| 20 days ago
Sarkozy's tough talk on French identity Pandering to rightwing fears of immigration to France will only obscure the real issues of poverty, racism and inequality Announcing plans for a debate on national identity , France's immigration minister,
News Source: The Guardian
| 24 days ago
As elections loom, Nicolas Sarkozy picks moment for national debate • Three-month drive to ponder 'collective future' • President 'exploiting social divisions for political gain' Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP It has been
News Source: The Australian
| 27 days ago
Chirac will be the first former French president to be tried for corruption, officials said today, after charges from his years as mayor of Paris returned to taint the twilight of his long career. Mr Chirac stands accused of giving political allies