President Sarkozy of France is not a quiet politician, on the contrary he is deeply involved in his country’s politics as well as in the world’s. France holding the Presidency of the EU at the moment, it was Sarkozy who hosted this past Friday the 22nd summit in Nice, France, between Russia and the 27 European nations. Read the rest of this entry »

Lately, the Spanish government has been fretting about the possibility of being left out of the G20 meeting. At least, it appeared it was going to be so when the meeting was called. In Spain there was lack of understanding about how or why the country which has the world’s eighth-largest economy and a banking system that is weathering the financial storm better than others in Europe was not going to be included. Read the rest of this entry »

Nobody thinks the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is amused having learned that a doll in his image (in fact 20,000 copies) is already in the shops together with a voodoo manual and a set of 12 pins. Read the rest of this entry »

Poor Angela Merkel! When one is the only woman in a male club of global politicians one has to put up with certain things one had not expected. First it was George Bush with his back massage, remember? Read the rest of this entry »

Among accusations of race in the US elections, we don’t have to forget that racism is alive and well in Europe too. In France, with a large Arab population, many of them born in the country and with French citizenship, racism is still a force with which to contend, specially in the large cities. Read the rest of this entry »

The Swedish Academy announced today, the 9th of October, the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in literature, the French novelist Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio. The news were received with pride in France where President Sarkozy congratulated him in name of all the French with a “great pride” and named him “a world citizen, son of all continents and all cultures”. Read the rest of this entry »

One could expect that such a large financial crisis as the one taking place in the United States would cross both the Atlantic and the Pacific and affect the financial markets of Europe and Asia. Read the rest of this entry »