World news about “Nicolas Sarkozy” published by euronews.
Probe launched into alleged Gaddafi funding of Sarkozy campaignFrench authorities are investigating allegations that late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi donated money for one of Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential campaigns… 20/04/2013
Sarkozy case: judge receives death threats French authorities are investigating death threats made against Jean Michel Gentil, a judge who put former president Nicolas Sarkozy under formal… 28/03/2013
Judge in charge of Sarkozy corruption case receives death threatThe judge overseeing the corruption case against former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has received a death threat and bullets in the post. Sarkozy denies… 28/03/2013
Sarkozy honours Belgian foreign minister Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has made a rare public appearance. The 58-year-old was in Brussels to present France’s highest honour to Belgian… 27/03/2013
France in bitter row over claims against Sarkozy Nicolas Sarkozy was at times controversial in office, out of office he has caused a political and legal brawl in France. Supporters of the former president… 23/03/2013
Sarkozy probe: no smoke without fire or vendetta? A formal investigation of Nicolas Sarkozy could prove devastating for his hopes to reenter politics. It is alleged the former French president accepted… 22/03/2013
Former French President Sarkozy under investigation Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been placed under formal investigation in relation to a case involving France’s richest woman. The 58-year-old… 22/03/2013
Anti-Sarkozy insult was ‘satirical’ – European Court finds France guilty of human rights violationA man who was fined for displaying an ‘abusive’ sign to former president Nicolas Sarkozy was today cleared of his conviction as the European Court of Human… 14/03/2013
Hollande rolls back Sarkozy’s retirement reforms French President Francois Hollande unveiled a plan on Wednesday to lower the retirement age to 60 for some long-term workers. It partially reverses his… 06/06/2012
France Socialist-led France is now under the socialist leadership of President François Hollande. May 15 was a day of rites of passage and symbolism, before getting down to… 18/05/2012
Sarkozy, how golden the handshake? Some will be sorry to see Nicolas Sarkozy go, a head of state with a certain style. In 2007, on the sixteenth of May, he crossed the Elysée Palace main… 15/05/2012
Hollande sworn in as French president – nocomment François Hollande has been officially sworn in as France’s new president, during a ceremony at the Elysée Palace in Paris. He is the first Socialist to take… 15/05/2012
The Presidents of the French RepublicOutgoing French President Nicolas Sarkozy and President-elect François Hollande attend Victory Day commemorations in Paris, in a show of Republican unity. It… 08/05/2012
Historical evening in France – nocomment First reactions of winning and losing candidates in French presidential election result. 07/05/2012
French presidential baiting and debating A single showcase debate on television between the contenders for the French presidency was intended to convince people who had not yet made their choice of… 03/05/2012
French elections foreign policy interest low As in many election campaigns, foreign policy is not one of the French public’s main interests. When the two finalists have mentioned it, foreign policy has… 02/05/2012
MEPs react to French first round result The first round of France’s Presidential election has been watched well beyond the country’s borders. Numerous European broad sheets led with the result… 23/04/2012
Politics pummel share prices Politics pushed Europe’s stock exchanges deep into the red on Monday and the effect splashed over onto financial markets world wide also pulling down the… 23/04/2012
Political fears undermine share prices Europe’s stock exchanges headed deep into the red on Monday with investors reacting to political worries. They sold off shares – to buy things like safe… 23/04/2012
French election frenzy The ten candidates for France’s presidency have six days left to persuade voters: ‘I am the one,’ and the tone seems to be ‘the devil take the… 16/04/2012
French elections: what’s Y got to do with it? They are young, they are French and they are part of what is known as Generation Y. A generation less than 30 years old, they are said to number 13 million… 13/04/2012
Notable dates during the first term in office of French President Nicolas Sarkozy2007 – 6 May: Sarkozy is elected, leader of the UMP conservative party, beating Socialist rival candidate Ségolène Royal. – 16 May: He travels to Berlin… 22/03/2012
French police tear gas ArcelorMittal steelworkers – nocomment More than 200 angry ArcelorMittal employees of a French steel mill facing closure demonstrated in front of Nicolas Sarkozy’s campaign headquarters in Paris. 16/03/2012
Sarkozy – a Frenchman in a hurry After General De Gaulle, Georges Pompidou, Francois Mitterrand, who will be moving into the Elysée Palace after the next French presidential election. The… 15/03/2012
A passport for mockery in StrasbourgA speech by Nicolas Sarkozy which was meant to add momentum to his presidential campaign has rattled the European Parliament in Strasbourg. At an election… 13/03/2012
Sarkozy denies Gaddafi funding allegationsFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has angrily denied accusations, during a live television interview, that he received money from deposed Libyan leader Muammar… 13/03/2012
Sarkozy booed in Bayonne – nocomment Protesters booed President Nicolas Sarkozy as he campaigned in Bayonne, in the French Basque region. 01/03/2012
France easily sells bonds as Sarkozy attacks S&P It was almost like Standard and Poor’s stripping France of its AAA credit rating never happened as on Thursday, in its first auction of medium-term government… 19/01/2012
French downgrade jars Germans France’s loss of a triple-A credit rating from one agency has put a nasty scratch in Nicolas Sarkozy’s policy record, less than 100 days from a presidential… 16/01/2012
Sarkozy Lagarde crisis meeting With the eurozone deeply mired in a debt crisis, International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde was in Paris on Wednesday for talks with French President… 11/01/2012
ECB moves to stimulate economy expectedResponding to a deepening economic slowdown and Europe’s sovereign debt crisis, financial analysts expect a more accommodative monetary stance from the… 07/12/2011
Germany faces more pressure to back eurobonds Germany’s failed bond auction on Wednesday may lead to movement from Berlin on the subject of Eurobonds when France’s Nicolas Sarkozy meets Angela Merkel… 24/11/2011
Armistice ceremony in Paris – nocomment Ceremonies marking the end of World War One have been held in Paris. 11/11/2011
Sarkozy jogs in the rain as clouds gather over Europe – nocomment French President Nicolas Sarkozy goes jogging along La Croisette in Cannes under the clouds that gathered during the G20 summit. 05/11/2011
Sarkozy struggles to save his summit French President Nicolas Sarkozy had hoped the G20 summit in Cannes would be one of the crowning moments of his five years running France. He had hoped to… 03/11/2011
EU leaders agree euro zone plan – nocomment Europe’s leaders have finally agreed a euro zone rescue plan after marathon talks lasting more than eight hours. 27/10/2011
High stakes at euro summit As the latest euro rescue summit loomed, there remained major differences on confronting the currency bloc’s worsening sovereign debt crisis Germany set the… 25/10/2011
EU leaders gather in Brussels for crucial summit Europe’s leaders arrived at the European Council for the crucial two-leg summit to tackle the deepening sovereign debt crisis. German Chancellor, Angela… 23/10/2011
Corruption allegations swirl around Sarkozy The repercussions of a bombing in the Pakistani city of Karachi in 2002 continue to be felt in France. Eleven French engineers died in the attack, which it is… 23/09/2011
Libya: Sarkozy, the people’s hero – nocomment Libyan people thanked Nicolas Sarkozy for his support as the French President visited Tripoli with the British Prime Minister David Cameron. 16/09/2011
Markets want more from Merkel and Sarkozy The leaders of the euro zone’s two biggest economies have vowed on moving to a more integrated Europe. But the business world was expecting more. French… 17/08/2011
European markets volatile after Sarkozy-Merkel talks Another volatile day for European shares. Markets closed at their highest level in more than a week on Wednesday after early losses following disappointment… 17/08/2011
Merkel and Sarkozy fly to the aid of the euro They are pre-ordained to agree. Even if reportedly behind the scenes sparks fly between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy, once again they find themselves on… 15/08/2011
Le Tour de l’EuroWill the EU’s beloved euro project survive? With so much uncertainty currently facing the European single currency, comparisons with this year’s Tour de… 21/07/2011
Nicolas Sarkozy pays tribute to soldiers – nocomment Parliament in Paris has paid tribute to five French soldiers killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan, in the northeastern province of Kapisa. 20/07/2011
Firefighters jump on Champs-Elysees – nocomment Members of the 200-year-old Paris fire-brigade ended the July 14 – Bastille Day – military parade, with a gymnastics demonstration to non-military music, such… 15/07/2011
Bastille Day haka – nocomment French soldiers from overseas territories do the haka for the official military parade on the Champs-Elysees for Bastille Day. 15/07/2011
Sarkozy in Afghanistan – nocomment French President Nicolas Sarkozy met French troops in the region of Surobi, in a five-hour visit to Afghanistan. 13/07/2011
French president manhandled – nocomment As French President Nicholas Sarkozy greeted a small crowd in the town of Brax, about 70 miles from Toulouse, a man reached out and grabbed him by the lapel… 01/07/2011
Rising commodity costs threaten global economy, Sarkozy warns Spiralling food and energy prices are threatening global economic growth, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warned. Speaking in Brussels, the current G20… 14/06/2011
Effigies of G8 leaders can-can in Paris protest – nocomment Sarkozy and G8 leaders walkabout in Deauville during the G8 summit. While in Paris, effigies of G8 leaders throw up their legs in protest in an Oxfam can-can… 27/05/2011
Carla Bruni-Sarkozy pregnant – nocomment France’s First Lady greeted the spouses of the world leaders ahead of the G8 summit in Deauville. It was the first obvious signs of a pregnant Carla… 27/05/2011
Sarkozy calls for tougher internet regulation The world’s first ever e-G8 forum is taking place in Paris, with the technology industry’s leading lights all present. The main area of discussion – internet… 24/05/2011
Caricatures of G8 leaders playing poker – nocomment Papier-mache effigies representing G8 leaders laid their cards out on a poker table in Paris, calling for action and commitment at the upcoming Group of Eight… 24/05/2011
France’s President Sarkozy commemorates Victory in Europe Day in ParisFrance’s President Nicolas Sarkozy lays a wreath at the statue of Charles de Gaulle to commemorate the Victory in Europe Day of May 8, 1945, during a ceremony… 08/05/2011
French-Italian border spat meeting The leaders of France and Italy will meet this Tuesday for what is being described as a calming of tempers — a summit over immigration across their shared… 25/04/2011
Europe Weekly: nuclear cheque and voter incentives In the Europe Weekly review of important stories, Hungary’s ruling party is criticised as undemocratic, over a new constitution. Tensions remain at the… 22/04/2011
Monetary system reform warning French President Nicolas Sarkozy is warning of the risk of another global economic crisis unless the world’s monetary system is urgently overhauled. He was… 31/03/2011
Exclusive: Saif al-Gaddafi ‘wants money back from Sarkozy’ With the situation in Libya still tense and, above all, highly fluid, Colonel Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam Gaddafi gave euronews his personal views on the… 16/03/2011
EXCLUSIVE – Gaddafi to Sarkozy: ‘give us back our money’ ‘That clown Sarkozy’: see the exclusive euronews interview with Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi the son of Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi. Coming up on euronews… 16/03/2011
Doha forum seeks ways to use sport for the greater goodFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy has made a rare public appearance along with other political and sporting figures in Qatar for the Doha Goals… 12/12/2012
Sarkozy plays peace broker to feuding UMP leadership contendersFormer French President Nicolas Sarkozy has waded into the leadership row threatening to splinter his conservative UMP party. His intervention follows a… 27/11/2012
Sarkozy in 12-hour grilling by judge over donationsThe last French President Nicolas Sarkozy has escaped being placed under formal investigation after an all-day grilling by a judge over accusations of illegal… 22/11/2012
Sarkozy’s UMP party to vote for a new leaderAround 300,000 members of the political party of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy are voting for a new leader. The opposition UMP has been without a… 18/11/2012
Sarkozy set for return to politics?Former French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has appeared at a private banking conference in New York as speculation mounts about his future. Sarkozy discussed… 12/10/2012
French police raid Sarkozy home and officesThe home and offices of former French president Nicolas Sarkozy have been raided by police. The search was part of a probe into alleged illegal campaign… 04/07/2012
Parliamentary poll in France, a month after the presidential raceVoting is underway in France in a general election that comes just a month after Socialist Francois Hollande defeated conservative Nicolas Sarkozy in the… 10/06/2012
Hollande inaugurated as French PresidentFrancois Hollande has been officially sworn-in as France’s new president, during a ceremony at the Elysee Palace in Paris. He is the first socialist to take… 15/05/2012
France: Hollande sworn in as French presidentFrançois Hollande has been officially sworn in as the new President of France. He took over from Nicolas Sarkozy in an official ceremony in Paris on Tuesday… 15/05/2012
Sarkozy’s cabinet ministers say au revoirThe outgoing cabinet of Nicolas Sarkozy has met for the final time in Paris. As ministers left the Elysee Palace, they said their leader had told them not to… 09/05/2012
Sarkozy leads final Armistice day celebrationsMay is a month of public holidays in France, and the eighth is the day the country celebrates the 1945 armistice ending the Second World War in… 08/05/2012
Sarkozy leads his final Victory Day paradeMay is a month of public holidays in France, and the eighth is the day the country celebrates the 1945 armistice ending the Second World War in… 08/05/2012
French left celebrates an historic nightIn over thirty years in politics he has never served as a minister, now Francois Hollande holds the highest office in the land. The new President of France… 07/05/2012
Speech: Sarkozy concedes defeatVideo: Nicolas Sarkozy concedes election defeat to François Hollande 06/05/2012
French election Live BlogSecond tour de l‘élection présidentielle française 06/05/2012
French presidential hopefuls cast their ballotsThe two contenders to be France’s next leader have cast their votes in the country’s presidential election. Socialist candidate Francois Hollande filled out… 06/05/2012
Hollande becomes first socialist French leader for 17 yearsFrançois Hollande has become the new President of France. In a powerful speech to the country he thanked everyone who voted and called the 6th of May a new… 06/05/2012
Decision day for FranceVoting is underway across France in the second and final round of a Presidential ballot that could give the country a Socialist head of state for the first… 06/05/2012
Far-flung French kick off presidential pollVoting in round two of France’s presidential election has already begun with polling stations opening in far-flung territories such as St-Pierre and Miquelon… 05/05/2012
France takes a day to consider its choiceIt’s all over bar the voting. Under French law no electoral campaigning is allowed on the eve of the poll. So France’s forty million voters have a day of… 05/05/2012
France: Sarkozy makes final re-election pleaHis chances of clinging to power may be slim according to the pundits but Nicolas Sarkozy is battling to the last to remain French President. With Sunday’s… 04/05/2012
French presidential race extols EuropeNicolas Sarkozy announced barely more than two months before polling that he was running for re-election as France’s president. The core matter was the… 04/05/2012
Centrist candidate provides further election blow to SarkozyIn a move described by observers as ground-breaking the French centrist Francois Bayrou has said he is backing socialist Francois Hollande in Sunday’s final… 04/05/2012
Final countdown in French presidential pollIt seems Nicolas Sarkozy failed to do enough to pull off a convincing victory in his TV face-off with Francois Hollande. Both the French public and… 03/05/2012
French presidential candidates head south for final ralliesFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy headed south to to the city of Toulon for a final big rally ahead of Sunday’s decisive second round… 03/05/2012
Ex-Libyan PM backs Gaddafi’s Sarkozy donation claimAnother voice, that of former Libyan prime minister al-Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi, who is in prison in Tunisia, has added his support to the accusation that French… 03/05/2012
French candidates look for debate boostBoth of France’s presidential candidates are claiming victory today after their only face-to-face televised debate of the campaign. President Nicolas… 03/05/2012
No knockdown in French Presidential TV debateNearly 18 million French viewers followed the near- three hour debate on television between the two men who want to be their leader last night. As the… 03/05/2012
Sarkozy fails to score against Hollande in TV duelIt was a much anticipated face-off between France’s two presidential candidates, billed as a make-or-break debate for Nicolas Sarkozy or a chance for… 03/05/2012
French presidential rivals go head to head in TV debateThe two men battling it out to become French president have faced up to each other in a much anticipated television debate. With just days to go until the… 02/05/2012
All to play for in France’s electionAhead of Sunday’s French election euronews has been speaking to Gael Sliman, the director of France’s second-largest polling researchers, BVA Opinion… 02/05/2012
Crucial TV debate could decide French electionThe French election faces what president Nicolas Sarkozy calls a “moment of truth” when he comes face-to-face with socialist rival Francois Hollande in a live… 02/05/2012
Sarkozy and Hollande prepare for TV duelFinal preparations ahead of tonight’s one and only face-to-face debate between France’s two presidential candidates. Nothing has been left to chance – even… 02/05/2012
Hollande criticises Sarkozy May Day speechPaying tribute to former Socialist prime minister Pierre Bérégovoy, who committed suicide in the same town on May Day 19 years ago, French presidential… 01/05/2012
Sarkozy hosts May Day rally in ParisWith just days to go before the second and decisive round of the French presidential election, incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy has been hosting a May Day rally in… 01/05/2012
French presidential election: Sarkozy up one point in pollsA new poll suggests President Nicolas Sarkozy could be closing the gap in France’s presidential race, with six days to go. Pollsters IPSOS say Sarkozy would… 30/04/2012
Far-right voters still key to French presidential pollWith just a week to go before France chooses its next president and the race for the Elysee Palace is still appearing to be a frantic bid to court far-right… 30/04/2012
France: presidential campaign intensifiesWith just a week to go before the vote that decides who will be the next president of France, both candidates have been rallying their supporters. Sunday… 29/04/2012
France: Gaddafi cash claims rock Sarkozy’s re-election bidClaims that Colonel Gaddafi agreed to finance the campaign that saw Nicolas Sarkozy become French President have rocked his hopes of keeping the job. The… 29/04/2012
Anti-nuclear protesters target presidential election in FranceGreenpeace is using the presidential election in France to call on the two main candidates to recognise the risk of a nuclear disaster and close some… 28/04/2012
