Whistleblower website WikiLeaks says the US National Security Agency (NSA) eavesdropped on two successive French finance ministers and the country’s high-stakes export contracts, trade and budget talks over a decade. According to new documents released by the transparency website on Monday, the NSA wiretapped the communications of two finance ministers Francois Baroin and Pierre Moscovici and three... 

The US National Security Agency (NSA) spied on the last three presidents of France from 2006 until 2012, according to newly released documents from the WikiLeaks whistleblower website. The NSA wiretapped former French presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy as well the current leader Francois Hollande, WikiLeaks said in a press statement published on Tuesday, citing top secret intelligence reports... 

The French electoral earthquake has surprised nobody but the hostile elite who handle our affairs and the presstitute media (to put it in the terms of Mr Craig Roberts) who still try to control the minds in the world. The old country is now under fire as was Austria more than ten years ago. At this time it was fake Gaullist Chirac who conducted the moral crusade against the small continental country.... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac A court in France has handed former French President Jacques Chirac a two-year suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of embezzlement and misuse of public funds. Chirac was tried on Thursday over a party-financing scandal during his 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, AFP reported. Chirac, who did not attend the trial due to doctors’ recommendations,... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac A French lawyer and former aide to Jacques Chirac says the ex-president of the country and his prime minister received millions of euros in cash from despotic leaders of African nations. Robert Bourgi, who served as an adviser to Chirac and former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin before switching sides and joining the conservative camp of French President... 

Former French President Jacques Chirac The trial of former French President Jacques Chirac has opened in his absence in Paris on charges of misusing public funds during his time as mayor of the city. Chirac’s lawyers had last week submitted a medical report to the court, explaining that the 78-year-old is in a state of vulnerability that makes him unable to answer questions about his past, the... 

A collective of the Franco-Chinese called to protest Sunday in Paris. He denounced the violence reported against members of this community. The event will be the main slogan “security for all, solidarity with the Chinese in Paris. Organizers expect about 10,000 people in the Belleville district, according to AFP. Organizers spoke of a “climate of growing insecurity.” For them, “people... 

The European Union’s competition watchdog has appoved the use of €99m (£76m) of French state aid for a consortium attempting to build an internet search engine to take on Google. A lack of funding has meant the project – which is Latin for “I seek” – is still in the concept stage, but will now be able to get up and running thanks to support from France, which has championed...