PARIS -- The leaders of Germany and France, meeting here on Monday, pledged not to allow Russia and China to block international action to stop the bloodshed in Syria, and promised to help the Syrian people. Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany and President Nicolas Sarkozy of France also called for Greece to come to terms quickly with the European...
ABBEVILLE, France -- This small city in northern France has few immigrants and little crime. But in the last local elections here, the candidate of the far-right National Front eliminated the standard-bearer of President Nicolas Sarkozy's party in the first round of voting and then won 30.2 percent of the vote in the runoff, losing to a Socialist....
PARIS -- France's failure to make a definite decision about its energy future has left it with little choice but to extend the life of its existing nuclear power plants, an independent government agency said Tuesday. The French Court of Audit noted in a report that with 22 of France's 58 nuclear power plants due to reach their originally envisioned...
Nicolas Sarkozy, fulde navn: Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sárközy de Nagy-Bócsa (født 28. januar 1955 i Paris' 17. arrondissement), er Frankrigs 23. præsident, valgt for Union pour un Mouvement Populaire. Han er den sjette præsident i Den Femte Republik. I anden valgrunde 6. maj 2007 slog han med 53% af stemmerne Parti Socialistes kandidat Ségolène Royal. Han blev indsat som Jacques Chiracs efterfølger den 17. maj 2007.
Nicolas Sarkozy er også kendt under kælenavnet "Sarko", der dog aldrig bruges i offentlig kontekst, men ofte i aviser og tidsskrifter, f.eks. satirebladet Le Canard Enchaîné.
Sarkozy har med sin stærke karisma og sine klare udmeldinger opnået stor tilslutning i den franske befolkning og særligt i sit eget parti UMP, hvor han efter en urafstemning blev valgt som formand med overvældende flertal i 2005. Fold ud