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France's Latest Woe: Brand-New Website Crashes
By Dana Kennedy - AOL News(July 15) -- Just when things seemed as if they couldn't get much worse for France's image, already tarnished by its disgraced soccer team, a messy financial scandal involving the country's richest woman and a president with his lowest approval ratings ever, the government just launched a brand-new $2 million promotional website to great fanfare and then watched as it promptly crashed. It's been down ever since. Visitors to the much-ballyhooed France.fr, which was to serve "as a major promotional tool for France's image abroad," found only an apology today and an explanation that the site ...
Sarkozy Denies Claims That L'Oreal Heiress Gave Him Cash
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (July 6) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy today angrily denounced a report that France's richest woman helped illegally bankroll his successful 2007 presidential election. Paris' splashiest summer scandal in decades has exploded out of a court case involving Liliane Bettencourt, 87, the heiress to the L'Oreal cosmetics fortune, and her estranged daughter, who is contesting the more than $1 billion her mother gave to a longtime friend and society photographer. Remy de la Mauviniere, AP French President Nicolas Sarkozy denied on Tuesday that L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, ...
Sarkozy Reiterates Trust in Obama, Support for U.S. Afghanistan Strategy
By David Sessions - Politics DailyPresident Nicolas Sarkozy of France spent Tuesday afternoon meeting with President Obama, discussing Afghanistan, possible U.N. sanctions for Iran and a controversial defense contract that angered European countries. At a late afternoon press conference, the two presidents told reporters that they trust each other completely and that their relationship represents unprecedented honesty between the United States and France. Sarkozy's two-day trip to the United States was designed to show that he is working with the United States on Afghanistan and economic issues as France prepares to take over ...
Nicolas Sarkozy, France's Right Wing Take Beating in Regional Elections
By David Sessions - Politics DailyFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy suffered a setback on Sunday as a left-wing coalition of socialists and environmentalists took substantial majorities in the country's regional elections. Sarkozy's right-wing UMP (Union for a Popular Movement) received just 36 percent of the vote, while the left took 54 percent. Far-right groups made a strong showing in some regions. ...
Carla Bruni Drops Gig For Sarkozy's Sake
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (Feb. 2) – French first lady Carla Bruni has decided to stand by her man rather than her singing career, at least when it comes to this month's San Remo music festival in Italy. The Italian-born Bruni was scheduled to sing at the festival's competition but she abruptly pulled out, apparently because another singer at the festival plans to perform a song mocking her husband, French President Nicolas Sarkozy. TV presenter Massimo Giletti announced Bruni's decision to cancel her appearance Sunday night on the Italian state channel Rai Uno, telling millions of viewers ...
Europe to Obama: Don't Count On Us for Many More Troops
By William Boston - AOL NewsBERLIN (Dec. 2) - In his speech Tuesday night announcing 30,000 more U.S. troops for Afghanistan, President Barack Obama said he was "confident" that allies would join in the escalation for an obvious reason: "what's at stake is the security of our allies, and the common security of the world." He is likely to be sorely disappointed with the response, since Europe seems neither militarily equipped nor politically disposed to significantly up its stake in what is still widely seen here as an American war. Of the roughly 110,000 foreign troops now in Afghanistan, 68,000 are American. The ...
Bird Brains Compete for 'Turkey of the Year'
By Buck Wolf - AOL NewsJust how did the turkey -- a bird native to North America -- become synonymous with thoughtless, annoying people, so often overstuffed with jive? Let's face it, some of our nominees for 2009 Turkey of the Year wouldn't be welcome at any Thanksgiving dinner. So, with no further ado, let's look at some of the year's most fowl personalities. AP Roguishly Raw: That ring you hear when your 15 minutes of fame are up must be a call from someone asking you to pose nude. Levi Johnston's offer came from Playgirl, and he promised the pictorial would be "tasteful." We now know that Johnston's ...
Five Things We Learned at the European Summit
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyA few weeks back, I posted about some incipient trouble brewing within the EU. Late last week, European leaders met for a two-day summit to push forward on a number of those procedural and policy issues. Here are five noteworthy things to come out of that meeting: ...
Measuring Economic Progress: Is GDP the Bottom Line?
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyEarlier this week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy called upon world leaders to stop using gross domestic product as their primary measure of economic progress. Instead, he pushed for a focus on quality-of-life indicators like health care availability and leisure time. ...
At G8, Pictures Not Worth a Thousand Words
By Ria Misra - Politics DailySo, the picture of President Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy supposedly leering at a woman as she steps behind them onto a platform isn't the only one of its kind that circulated Friday. Ben Smith over at Politico has a similar picture posted, only this one features both Sarkozy and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who appear to be snickering together like a pair of 12-year-old boys as a different woman bends over to pick up some papers. Of course, Smith also points to another view of the same scene printed in an Italian paper, where the woman appears to be barely in their ...
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