French president expected to receive boost to personal standing Nicolas Sarkozy was hoping for a much-needed boost tonight as his ruling centre-right party was expected to win the biggest share of the vote in the European elections in France. If the predictions prove correct, it would be the first time in years that a French incumbent government has won an interim election. The French president de...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has told car companies who are set to get a 6 billion government bailout that they should keep jobs in France. Deutshe Welle Sarkozy has said French car companies should locate plants at home rather than in countries like the Czech Republic. One of the conditions for bailout is that car makers must keep jobs in France. Our "one eyed scottish idiot" Crash Gordon wou...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has responded to critics of his decision to return France fully to NATO by downplaying the significance of the plan. Sarkozy has argued that France’s full “reintegration” into the military command structure of the 26-member alliance, after an absence of more than 40 years, is little more than a formality, especially considering that France already...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy kicked off the European election campaign in France on Tuesday (5 May) with an impassioned speech in Nîmes, EurActiv France reports. Sarkozy's long-standing EU stances on economic governance were peppered with a few surprises, including a plea for an "economic and security common area" between the EU, Turkey and Russia.

DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty ImagesWith the forceful gallantry of a modern-day Errol Flynn, French President, Nicolas Sarkozy sent in a unit of French troops to rescue two French natives captured by pirates while vacationing on their yacht earlier this month. This is the second such rescue operation France has initiated in the last five months. Even more rousing than Sarkozy's heroic flair was h...

France's president, Nicolas Sarkozy, honored the 10 French soldiers killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan as the political debate about his Afghan policy sharpened.

The hyper president was hyped up for his news conference at the end of the French presidency of the European Council. The summit he said would "go down in history". President Sarkozy of France - but for a few days yet not of France alone - had praise for other leaders. Gordon Brown he said was "an extremely constructive European". The Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen was "brave". But he saved the ...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is a lucky man. He has lost all credibility, but the voters have no political alternative to his right or to his left. The president is currently campaigning for the European elections on a domestic theme, the rise of crime in France, which he promised to combat in earlier campaigns. In normal circumstances, Mr. Sarkozy’s UMP party would lose considerably to ...

At Saturday's D-Day commemoration, French President Nicholas Sarkozy shared a podium with US President Barack Obama, with predictable results. Yes, that's a stool underneath the French leader, adding another height bump to his custom-made elevator shoes. As someone who's bumped his head on many a doorframe, perhaps I'm not the best person to ask this, but will France and the re...

The French President Nicolas Sarkozy said today neither France nor Germany was satisfied with current proposals for an accord at this week's G20 summit and warned that he would not accept any "false compromises".