Nicolas Sarkozy

PM set for crisis talks in Paris

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gordon Brown is to head for France to meet President Nicolas Sarkozy for talks on the global financial crisis.

Au revoir golden parachutes

Thinking Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday

The French president Nicolas Sarkozy is taking advantage of the financial crisis to make good on a campaign promise - get rid of outrageous severance packages. He is promoting a bill to restrict the paying of golden parachutes and lucrative...

Sarkozy’s women ‘used in smear plot’

Times Online (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago

A TALE of skulduggery and intrigue has emerged in France, where the former intelligence chief is suspected of spying on President Nicolas Sarkozy’s wives and lovers as part of an effort to smear him.

Brown to meet Sarkozy for talks

BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gordon Brown is to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy for talks on the global financial crisis.

Sarkozy, Merkel prepare European crisis plan

Reuters UK (Free subscription) | yesterday

COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel paved the way on Saturday for European measures to tackle the global financial crisis but revealed little about their plans.

• Merkel repeats opposition to European banking bail-out fund - Summary - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• FRANCE: In De Gaulle's hometown, Merkel and Sarkozy discuss crisis - France24
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Sarkozy says eurozone working on solution

Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday

French President Nicolas Sarkozy said the countries in the euro zone were working on a joint solution to the financial crisis but he declined to elaborate on its details

• Germany's Merkel, France's Sarkozy meet on historic anniversary - The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• FRANCE: In De Gaulle's hometown, Merkel and Sarkozy discuss crisis - France24
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FRANCE - GERMANY: Merkel, Sarkozy pledge coordinated action on financial crisis

France24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

Stressing the need for a unified European financial package during a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would meet with British PM Gordon Brown ahead of Saturday's eurozone talks.

Arts, Briefly: Sarkozy, Merkel to Open De Gaulle Memorial

New York Times (Free subscription) | yesterday

President Nicolas Sarkozy of France and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will inaugurate a memorial complex dedicated to Charles de Gaulle.

A new two-speed European Union

A Fistful of Euros (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

A few days ago, Edward explored the gap between the Eurozone’s monetary and political architecture (and the lack of the latter) as a potential risk to the Eurozone itself. But in what looks likely to be a weekend of rapidly changing events, here is a new wrinkle: Nicolas Sarkozy has convened an emergency heads of [...]

Eurozone leaders to meet Sunday at financial-crisis summit - Summary

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Paris - The 15 heads of state and government of the eurozone countries are to meet Sunday in Paris to discuss solutions to the financial crisis, the office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday. The aim of the meeting is to define a com...

Spy file reveals naughty Nicolas had affair

News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy had an affair with the wife of a cabinet member about four years ago, secret notebooks reveal.

Shai Agassi totally into what France is doing with EVs

AutoblogGreen (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Filed under: Emerging Technologies , EV/Plug-in Shai Agassi likes what he's hearing from French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy recently announced a plan to expand sustainable transportation infrastructure in France, including more money for electric vehicles. The founder of Project Better Place - and someone with an apparent inability to find a media outlet he doesn't like - said that France's...

Winners Of Nobel Prize For Medicine Voice Concern For Future Of HIV/AIDS Funding; Montagnier Discusses Therapeutic Vaccines

Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

Luc Montagnier and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi, two French scientists who jointly were awarded half of the Nobel Prize for medicine earlier this week, spoke with French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday about the effect that the world financial crisis could have on global funding for HIV/AIDS, the AP/Hartford Courant reports.

FRANCE - SPAIN: French, Spanish presidents meet on economic crisis

France24 (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is meeting with his Spanish counterpart Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero on Friday with the economic crisis on the agenda. The gathering follows Zapatero accusing the IMF of inaction.

France pledges support for electric, hybrid cars

Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy yesterday pledged €400 million ($625-million) in state support for the development of electric and hybrid cars. He said at the Paris Auto Show that the money will be ''exclusively for the research and development of nonpolluting vehicles'' over fours years. His comments came as French car makers Renault SA and PSA Peugeot Citroen said they made separate deals with energy...