Humiliating phone call: It has been revealed that Nicolas Sarkozy contacted Chinese leader Hu Jintao to ask for investment and backing of the European fund. Further embarrassment as one trillion euro bailout fund announced yesterday does not really exist. Europe is holding out the begging bowl to China in an effort to keep the rescue package for the single currency alive. In a clear sign of how the... 

France is implementing austerity measures with a new budget proposal that would cut government spending for the first time in decades, Press TV reports. The 2012 budget proposal of French President Sarkozy’s government is the first to reduce public spending since World War II. “This was a budget created to please the European commission in Brussels. It stems from the desire to drastically... 

Stealthy and bulletproof: A road-going Mercedes ML, the type which has been modified with armour plating and jamming technology, and allegedly given to Muammar Gaddafi by France. Muammar Gaddafi has escaped in a state-of-the-art armoured vehicle provided by Nicolas Sarkozy, it emerged today. In the latest extraordinary twist to the Libyan rebellion, it emerged that the French President gave the ‘green... 

Anti-government protesters, one of them holding Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) adopted flag, shout slogans against the regime during a demonstration. In Libya, new government forces are turning up the heat on Colonel Gaddafi’s remaining supporters. Meanwhile, some Western leaders are facing charges at home over the legacy of their military intervention. ­The defiant loyalists... 

It seems that French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warmed to the role of Napoleon. The events in Libya have infatuated him. Gaddafi has not been toppled yet, but Sarkozy already threatens Iran. “Its military nuclear and ballistic ambitions constitute a growing threat that may lead to a preventive attack against Iranian sites that would provoke a major crisis that France wants to avoid at all... 

A shocking report prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry for Prime Minister Putin on French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s unexpected trip to China last week to meet with China’s President Hu Jintao states that this Western leader told the Chinese that the Americans were responsible for removing from Libya an estimated 1,500 young girls and boys purported to be utilized as ‘sex slaves.’ Though... 

Silvio Berlusconi (R) and Nicolas Sarkozy (L) The race for Libya’s vast oil wealth is gathering momentum. States who worked together during the NATO airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure lucrative energy contracts. ­Meanwhile, fears are rising that a new regime in Libya could easily slide into corruption. Half a billion dollars from Italy, and now a whopping $1.5... 

Marine Le Pen the daughter of Jean-Marie Le Pen recently became leader of the National Front succeeding her father. She is turning out to be a slick operator. With the French presidential elections less than a year away she is polling ahead of President Sarkozy. She doesn’t deny that there used to anti-Semitism in the party. Now she says she has only one thing to say to anyone with those views “... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is grabbed as he speaks to supporters near the southern city of Toulouse, June 30, 2011. French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been grabbed and almost knocked to the ground by a man in the southern French town of Brax. The attacker yanked Sarkozy’s suit by the shoulder and knocked him to the ground while he reached over a metal barricade to greet onlookers, AP... 

A scandal similar to one where the former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is a defendant broke out in France. Only this time the accused is the former Secretary of State Georges Tron who is believed to be close to President Nicolas Sarkozy. This story began unfolding in May. Georges Tron was reminded of the sins that he might have committed in the period from 1994 to... 

Obama said he and Sarkozy agreed that the NATO bombing must continue. The G8 summit in France has concluded with nations pledging billions in economic aid to the pioneers of the Arab Spring. But this is more than just an act of generosity. Leaders of the Group of Eight leading industrial nations concluded their two-day summit in Deauville, France on Friday, pledging $40 billion to support democratic... 

President Obama will join other G8 leaders today at the posh, French seaside resort of Deauville. On the agenda: proposed global regulations for the Internet, post-tsunami Japan, and military escapades in North Africa. Bizarrely absent from the top priorities listed by hosting head of state Nicolas Sarkozy is the most urgent issue of all: the need to rein in massive government over-spending and debt. One... 

A recent poll by CSA reveals that Nicolas Sarkozy would have to face Marine Le Pen in the 2012 French presidential elections. For centuries, Germany and France have determined the fate of the European continent, from war to peace and prosperity. While the single market has made distant the prospect of war, the leaders of these two powers ― Europe’s two largest economies ― still hold the... 

Sarkozy tells L'Express: "France will face up to its responsibilities on ... recognition of a Palestinian state". France may recognise a Palestinian state later this year Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said in an interview with a leading weekly magazine. “If the peace process is still dead in September, France will face up to its responsibilities on the central question... 

Sarkozy and Berlusconi are demanding European deportation pacts with the countries of revolutionary north Africa to send migrants home. Sarkozy and Berlusconi want passport-free travel within the EU suspended as north African migrants flee north. France and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe’s system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration sparked by the Arab spring...