700 Roma gypsies living in France face deportation by the end of August. The French government has announced plans to deport 700 Roma gypsies as Romania warns about the possibility of a xenophobic backlash. “I am worried about the risks of populism and xenophobic reactions in a context of economic crisis,” Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Baconschi said in an interview with Radio France... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered authorities to expel Gypsy illegal immigrants and dismantle their camps, amid accusations that his government is acting racist in its treatment of the group known as Roma. Sarkozy called a government meeting Wednesday after Gypsies clashed with police this month following the shooting death of a youth fleeing officers in the Loire Valley. Sarkozy... 

Islamic Veil FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy has ordered his government to table a draft law that would ban women from wearing full veils in all public places – a more far-reaching proposal than was widely expected. Government spokesman Luc Chatel said after yesterday’s cabinet meeting that the president had decided in favour of submitting a Bill in May to introduce an outright ban on all face-covering... 

A new report circulating in the Kremlin today authored by France’s Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE) and recently “obtained” by the FSB shockingly quotes French President Nicolas Sarkozy [photo top right with Obama] as stating that President Barack Obama is “a  dangerous[ly] aliéné”, which translates into his, Obama, being a “mad lunatic”, or in the American vernacular,... 

French Jewish President Nicolas Sarkozy on Tuesday warned believers to be thankful for the religious freedom they enjoy in France, amid national debates over faith following a Swiss ban on minarets. In an opinion piece published in the French daily Le Monde, the president defended the Swiss referendum against widespread international condemnation of the ban. “Instead of condemning the Swiss... 

France’s extreme-right National Front is poised to win its first town council in a decade after gaining ground in the north’s former mining heartlands of Pas de Calais, far from the party’s traditional southern base. The far-right party, led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, has reached record popularity in Hénin-Beaumont, a depressed former coalmining town struggling with high unemployment,... 

The French political establishment scrambled yesterday to try to block a significant electoral breakthrough by the daughter of the veteran far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. Marine Le Pen, 40, and her running-mate topped the poll on Sunday night’s municipal by-election in Hénin-Beaumont, an impoverished former coal mining town near Lens in the Pas de Calais. Having won nearly 40 per cent of... 

The Islamic burka is “not welcome” in France because it is not a symbol of religion but a sign of subservience for women, President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday. “The burka is not a sign of religion, it is a sign of subservience,” he told lawmakers. “It will not be welcome on the territory of the French republic.” A group of French lawmakers has been calling for... 

President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is to consider banning the burka and other Islamic clothing which French MPs claim is degrading to women. In a move that sparked fierce debate, a group of parliamentarians called for an inquiry into the wearing of the head-to-toe Islamic veil in France and whether Muslim women who cover themselves completely in public constitute an assault on French secularism... 

The leaders of Germany and France have again rejected the possibility of Turkey’s membership to the 27-state European Union, the Wall Street Journal reports. Speaking on Sunday, Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel said, “We cannot take in everyone in Europe as a full member.” She has, nevertheless floated the possibility of a loosely defined partnership with Turkey. France’s President, Nicolas... 

Merkel has concerns about Sarkozy's plans, although he is unlikely to worry too much. German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her skepticism about a proposal by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to create a Mediterranean Union of countries from Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at a conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Dec. 5, that she had her doubts... 

France decided: “It’s better to be led by foreigners rather then our own French people!” African and Arab immigrants simply destroyed France in the last 2 years just because “it’s France” and what was the French peoples answer to this? “Don’t vote with a patriot that is against immigration, vote with a Jewish immigrant from Hungary that will bring some...