Al Jazeera English
| Mar 21, 2013
Nicolas Sarkozy is being formally investigated over allegations that he accepted illegal campaign donations from L'Oreal billionaiare Liliane Bettencourt. The former French president may not face jail time even if found guilty but the probe could ...
Euronews
| Nov 19, 2012
The race to replace Nicolas Sarkozy as leader of France's main opposition party UMP is in chaos amid allegations of fraud. Both former Prime Minister Francois Fillion and rival Jean-François Copé claimed victory and irregularities c...
Al Jazeera English
| May 15, 2012
Francois Hollande has a tough job of turning around the economy, with France posting zero growth for the first quarter of this year on the day he was sworn in.
Press TV
| May 10, 2012
Just a few days after being elected as the new president of France, Francois Hollande is facing his people's high expectations. Not far from the official celebrations of the Victory in Europe Day, many turned up to call for more justice and an end...
France 24
| May 7, 2012
Elena Casas Montanez provides an overview of France's newspaper headlines focusing on the French election, with coverage from Liberation, Le Figaro, and others.
Telegraph.co.uk
| May 3, 2012
In a speech in Toulon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy gives a patriotic speech saying Socialists will bring austerity and recession.
Al Jazeera English
| May 3, 2012
Three days before election day, Nicolas Sarkozy and his rival for the French Presidency Francois Hollande have held rival rallies.
A new opinion poll suggests Hollande's lead has narrowed slightly after Wednesday's heated television debate. Both ...
Al Jazeera English
| May 2, 2012
French President Nicolas Sarkozy debated his Socialist rival Francois Hollande in a testy television duel that was billed as Sarkozy's last chance to save his chances of re-election on Sunday. Sarkozy went into the grueling 2.5-hour television de...
— May 7, 2012 at 04:00 am
...But the overwhelming reason for his loss in Sunday’s election was voters’ resentment at the painful, counterproductive austerity policies crafte...
— Apr 30, 2012 at 12:37 pm
...Since the 1950s, the last Sunday of April has been a special day when France honors those deported. Sarkozy paid tribute to French Jews during a...
— Apr 30, 2012 at 06:17 am
...Sarkozy was forced to deny allegations that he had received euros 50 million from the late Muammar Gaddafi as France's presidential rivals accus...
— May 1, 2012 at 03:29 pm
...to Mr. Raffarin that, fortunately, on June 18, 1940, General de Gaulle did not pronounce these words but chose instead to be disloyal to the Vic...
— Oct 1, 2012 at 08:57 am
...Sarkozy who once welcomed Gaddafi as the "Brother leader" during a state visit to Paris was said to have received millions of dollars from the L...
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Nicolas Sarkozy is a French politician who served as the 23rd President of France from 16 May 2007 until 15 May 2012.
Before his presidency, he was leader of the Union for a Popular Movement. Under Jacques Chirac's presidency he served as Minister of the Interior in Jean-Pierre Raffarin's first two governments, then was appointed Minister of Finances in Raffarin's last government and again Minister of the Interior in Dominique de Villepin's government.
Sarkozy was also president of the General council of the Hauts-de-Seine department from 2004 to 2007 and mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, one of the wealthiest communes of France, from 1983 to 2002. He was Minister of the Budget in the government of Édouard Balladur during François Mitterrand's last term.
In foreign affairs, he promised a strengthening of the entente cordiale with the United Kingdom and closer cooperation with the United States. During his term, he faced the late-2000s financial crisis and the Arab Spring. He also married Italian-French singer-songwriter Carla Bruni on 2 February 2008 at the Élysée Palace in Paris.
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