Another French woman could have a great importance in the next presidential election in France. After the Socialist Party leader Martine Aubry and the Communist head Marie-George Buffet, Cécile Duflot, the head of France’s Green Party has become a rising politician in Paris. 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 »

Nobody is sure yet of how much was accomplished at the G20 meeting mostly because the most talked about event, one that was probably orchestrated behind the scenes but not expected to be presented, was the dramatic disclosure Friday made by Obama, flanked by Brown and Sarkozy, the leaders of Britain and France, of the existence of a covert Iranian nuclear enrichment site. 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 »

The first reports we had were of an air strike by US fighter jets that appeared to have killed Afghan civilians last Friday. Since then we have learn that there were German troops who had ordered the attack on two tankers. The bombing by the US jet created many dead and injured people. And then the information or misinformation began. Were they civilian casualties or Taliban fighters? Read the rest of this entry »

As a proof that life does not stand still, When I wrote the article yesterday, it was Germany and France agreeing to reduce the bonuses paid to bankers and planning to impose control on this in the coming Pittsburgh summit of the G20. The United Kingdom did not seem to be on the same wave. 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 »