The well known rivalry in France between Nicolas Sarkozy and Dominique de Villepin, both politicians from the right UMP party, escalated to open hatred when Villepin was accused of trying to smear Sarkozy before the last presidential elections. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

It was made known today that Jacques Chirac, the former French president, has been ordered to stand trial for an alleged corruption scandal that goes back to his years as Paris mayor between 1977 and 1995, just before he became president of the country. Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

Next week the G20 summit will start at Pittsburgh. One of the assistants will be President Sarkozy from France. As Keyboard Politics published on September 2nd, the French president had a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel from Germany at which time he said “We want to see things changed in Pittsburgh.” Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

This week the Church of Scientology, with members as famous as actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, has gone on trial in France on charges of organized fraud. This church -registered as a religion in the United States was founded in 1954 by L. Ron Hubbard, the science fiction writer- Read the rest of this entry »