Only 10 percent of French youths read a newspaper daily. This may be the era of Twitter and blogs, but the French government won’t give up on the printed press. In fact, it is stepping in to bail out the print-news industry in an unusual way. In an attempt to get young people to read the printed stuff again, the Sarkozy government this fall started giving every 18-to-24-year-old a one-year subscription... 

Who ratted out First Lady Michelle Obama for getting VIP treatment while shopping in Paris last month with her daughters? That would be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The issue: Getting a store usually closed on Sundays to open for her. The cautious Mrs. Obama, who carries a limited, strategically applied issues portfolio, is now caught up–unwittingly–in a domestic debate in France... 

New details have emerged about Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu’s meeting last week with French President Nicolas Sarkozy that paint a picture slightly less cordial than the one presented at Wednesday’s press conference, in which the premier described his visit as a demonstration of an “unbreakable bond.” According to Channel 2, in the closed-door meeting, Sarkozy told Netanyahu... 

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been jeered in Africa while attending the funeral of President Omar Bongo in Gabon. Hundreds of people, lined up for the funeral in the capital Libreville, booed the French president as made his way to the presidential palace, yelling at him to leave the country. President Bongo, who ruled the former French colony for 41 years, died last week at the age of... 

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Two French websites – Islamisation, administered by Joachim Véliocas, and Bivouac-Id – have posted reports on the laying of the first stone of the new Grand Mosque of Tours. Notable among the dignitaries present were the Algerian Minister of Religion, the Socialist mayor of Tours, Jean Germain, and… the archbishop of Tours, Monsignor Aubertin. Tours will have its Grand Mosque when the 5 million... 

One arab youth tried to steal the purse of a French man, after he tried to get it back, the other Arabs beat him. The government of Nicolas Sarkozy sent the policeman in jail, just for putting it on his facebook page, the French are outraged at the incompetence of Sarkozy to deal with ethnic crimes and illegal immigration.  Read More »