Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
February 28, 2010
Sarkozy visits Rwanda
A couple of days ago Nicolas Sarkozy, during a tour of French-speaking African countries, visited Rwanda, the first visit by a French leader for 25 years. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
January 11, 2010
Sarkozy to create a “school for spies”
Perhaps the disarray that took place among the United States intelligence and security agencies,with their failure to stop what could have been a disastrous terrorist attack in the skies over Detroit on December 25, is what has prompted French President Nicolas Sarkozy to go ahead with his plan. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
October 12, 2009
A very French scandal
Last June President Sarkozy, some say influenced by his wife Carla Bruni, drafted Frédéric Mitterrand – a nephew of late French President François Mitterrand- into his cabinet to become France Culture Minister. Probably Sarkozy could not imagine that a few months after a scandal would broke out with some politicians asking that his minister steps down. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
August 11, 2009
From rental bikes to cars in Paris
No longer a novelty, several major American and European cities offer the possibility of renting a bike for the hour or day. And taking profit of this are not only the tourists but also the dwellers of those mostly congested cities. The rentals not only contribute to cut on pollution but also they are more economic than having a car and certainly more adaptable for our modern life. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
July 20, 2009
US and France: two faces of the stimulus
The financial crisis has hit many countries baldly but what made the difference among then was the way they reacted to it. Stimulus has been the word widely used by governments to show how they were going to fight such a crisis. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
June 22, 2009
Banning the burqa
At the beginning of June, President Barack Obama made an apparent dig at France’s headscarf ban -after a law enacted in 2004 banning the Islamic headscarf and other conspicuous religious symbols from public schools- in a speech aimed at healing rifts with the Islamic world. Obama defended the choice of some Muslim women to don the headscarf Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Rosa Maria Young on
May 26, 2009
And after Cannes and Monaco?
After 12 days of crowds, actors, paparazzi, and all sort of film workers, Cannes has woken up this morning quieter and once is cleaned up, ready to welcome anyone for a stroll along the Croissette. It was a quieter and perhaps less glamorous 62nd film festival that gave the Palme d’Or appropriately to a master of the disturbing, bleak and depressing films, the Austrian director Michael Heneke for his black-and-white film The White Ribbon about a children’s choir in a northern German village, set on the eve of the First World War. Read the rest of this entry »
