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Pool staff have banned a French woman from a swimming pool outside Paris for wearing a ‘burkini’.
The woman, named Carole, who converted to Islam, was told that the garment was inappropriate for public baths. The staff said the swimsuit, which consists of a headscarf, tunic and trousers was against pool regulations and unhygienic.
“The ban was imposed as President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government is considering an outright ban on all Islamic dress, such as the head-to-toe burka or niqab, that it considers a “sign of subservience” and “not welcome” in France.”Pool staff have banned a French woman from a swimming pool outside Paris for wearing a... more
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The French first couple is continuing their three-week-long vacation at Carla’s villa in Cap Negre, France.The French first couple is continuing their three-week-long vacation at Carla’s... more
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Nicolas Sarkozy has been enjoying the summer sun in Saint Tropez, France with his wife Carla Bruni. French President spend his time doing a little snorkeling on Monday, August 3rd, 2009. He looks to be in top shape! Nicolas, keep it up, France needs you.Nicolas Sarkozy has been enjoying the summer sun in Saint Tropez, France with his wife... more
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy discussed climate change in New York City on Friday with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Sarkozy stressed the need for a new organization that would oversee climate change initiatives.
The French President's comments come on the heels of the G8 conference earlier this month in Italy where members agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050. Sarkozy's call for a new global group comes scant weeks in advance of G20 talks scheduled for Pittsburgh and the meeting of United Nations General Assembly.
Both of these meetings are expected to lay out the final climate change groundwork that will be necessary for the Copenhagen Conference in December when the successor to the Kyoto Protocol will be established.
Ban Ki-moon praised Sarkozy during the working lunch at the French consulate for his, "full commitment to work together to seal the deal in Copenhagen on a globally acceptable" agreement.French President Nicolas Sarkozy discussed climate change in New York City on Friday... more
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As the landslide victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's disputed election provoked unrest, French President Nicolas Sarkozy denounces the result of Friday's vote as a "fraud."
"The extent of the fraud is proportional to the violent reaction," Sarkozy said Tuesday. "It is a tragedy, but it is not negative to have a real-opinion movement that tries to break its chains."
"If Ahmadinejad has really made progress since the last election and if he really represents two thirds of the electorate... why has this violence erupted?" asked the French leader.
The remarks come as Iran has decried what it calls interference in its internal affairs by certain countries. On Tuesday, Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned a group of European envoys to Tehran over their countries' "malicious stance" toward Tehran.As the landslide victory of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's disputed election... more
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The nude photo was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder Thursday at a Berlin auction house. The image is one of 10 prints of a nude Bruni lounging in an unmade bed captured by American fashion photographer Pamela Hanson in 1994.The nude photo was bought for $19,600 by an anonymous bidder Thursday at a Berlin... more
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J'adore Sarkozy, he is so debonaire, so passionate, so French. Well, I'm sure that's what he'd like us to think given the videos of Monsieur President flirting with his minx supermodel of a wife on facebook.
It goes something like this:
CB: "Nicolas you're sweating...."
NS: "I thought I told you to call me Mr President..."
CB: "Sorry Mr President, have you been taking the stairs again? You know your little legs get tired, that's why we have Michael to carry you"
NS: "Nonsense, I fired his ugly ass. I've been working out with Antoine de Caunes."
CB: "What kind of working out? He's a bad influence on you."
NS: "Anyway, can't stay, the Iraqi PM is coming over, we're going to sort out this Middle East thing, boys stuff, you just stay here and tell these media types how passionate I am."
And so on.J'adore Sarkozy, he is so debonaire, so passionate, so French. Well, I'm sure that's... more
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Hundreds of 'highly intimate' images of the French president's wife and her former lover have been stolen during a burglary.
The photographs and videos of Carla Bruni, who is on an official trip to Spain with Nicolas Sarkozy, date from the 41-year- old's affair with philosopher Raphael Enthoven.
Thieves broke into the Paris flat of his brother, 27-year-old actor Julien Enthoven, where the prints and videos were being kept, and stole them.
Police believe the images could be posted on the web, serving to embarrass Nicolas Sarkozy or be sold for a sizeable sum, thanks to his third wife's status.Hundreds of 'highly intimate' images of the French president's wife and her former... more
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France's parliament rejected a bill on Thursday that proposed disconnecting Internet users if they download music or films illegally, with the ruling UMP party failing to turn out in force to approve the law.
Backed by President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, the legislation was meant to quell the flow of free songs and films on the Internet that has hurt the revenues of artists and production companies.France's parliament rejected a bill on Thursday that proposed disconnecting Internet... more
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A spate of "bossnappings" by French workers has put President Nicolas Sarkozy in a tight spot, caught between the need to enforce the law and the risk of exacerbating unrest during the economic downturn.A spate of "bossnappings" by French workers has put President Nicolas Sarkozy in a... more
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A French student who gave a kiss to Barack Obama when he greeted an enraptured crowd on Friday said the initially reluctant U.S. president had to be encouraged to accept the gesture by his host Nicolas Sarkozy.
Cecilia Dervogne, a student at the University of Strasbourg, was among a noisy crowd of well-wishers who greeted Obama and his wife Michelle when they arrived in the eastern French city for a summit of NATO leaders.A French student who gave a kiss to Barack Obama when he greeted an enraptured crowd... more
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It's the moment many have been waiting for.
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"Friday, French president Nicolas Sarkozy received the ten architects selected to create Le Grand Paris. Earlier this week, they each gave a 30-minute presentation of their visions (see it here). The task is herculean, the mission quasi-impossible, but the challenge absolutely irresistible for any ambitious architect.
For he or she knows that, as Paul Goldberger writes in the New York Times, "politics and architecture have always been inseparable in this city". And that "Parisians, with their long and deep commitment to the idea that the city is in the most profound sense a public place, feel that Paris is very much their own possession."
The challenge however is not to reshape Paris, but rather to extend its inherent beauty to its outskirts, les banlieues – a web of small villages, some terribly grand and chic (Neuilly, Versailles, Saint Mandé, Vincennes, Saint Germain-en-Laye), others modest and provincial-looking (Montreuil, Pantin, Malakoff, Montrouge, Saint Gervais) and others still, socially ravaged and architecturally dehumanised (La Courneuve, Clichy-sous-bois). And also to link them. But how do you bring together so many different styles and the city's "enormous disparity", as Richard Rogers calls it, into one Grand Paris – especially when the city is so clearly defined geographically by its gates, shadows of former fortifications, and now le périphérique, the circular road encasing Paris? The simple answer is: by being bold. But also by understanding the fabric of French society and its psyche.""Friday, French president Nicolas Sarkozy received the ten architects selected to... more
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President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that France intends to become a full member of NATO, 43 years after Charles de Gaulle pulled France out of the alliance’s military command and threw NATO, and American forces, out of the country.President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Wednesday that France intends to become a full... more
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France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she would like to have a baby and if that does not work out she would be happy to adopt one.
The comments, made in an interview with the magazine Madame Figaro released to media on Wednesday, come just over a year after the supermodel-turned-popstar married President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Asked whether she wanted a baby, 41-year-old Bruni-Sarkozy said: "I would like that, but I don't know if it will be possible at my age.France's first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy says she would like to have a baby and if that... more
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A voi Amici Tutti le Riflessioni.
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Il 24 febbraio viene dichiarato ufficialmente la determinazione del permier Silvio Berluconi di realizzare impianti nucleari in Italia. Con la collaborazione Italia e Francia inizia il grande flagello italiano. In tanti sono convinti che essendo presenti vicino all'Italia centrali di energia nucleare, come nella Slovenia e in Svizzera, per giustificare la presa di posizio ne del premie Berlusconi, Purtroppo non è così, L'Italia, dopo la sconfitta elettorale che ha visto la Regione Sardegna vincere la destra di Berlusconi, ha una tremenda paura: la consapevolezza di sapere che in Italia, per la sua natura con enormi problemi, essendo una terra che a livello tellurico ha il suo territorio che per il 90° è impossibilitato ha ricevere basi nucleari, si trova a fronteggiare il dittatore Silvio Berlusconi...Il 24 febbraio viene dichiarato ufficialmente la determinazione del permier Silvio... more
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POINTE-À-PITRE, Guadeloupe: As President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared Tuesday to meet with labor unions and employer representatives to try to head off mounting unrest over France's declining economy, a month-long general strike on the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe escalated into widespread rioting, raising fears that political violence would spread to other French territories.POINTE-À-PITRE, Guadeloupe: As President Nicolas Sarkozy prepared Tuesday to meet... more
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Gordon Brown's had a tough week. First Jeremy Clarkson publicly insults him, reportedly calling him a liar and a "one-eyed Scottish idiot," then he gets gazumped for Obama's attentions by former best-bud Tony Blair. Now French President Nicolas Sarkozy has joined in the Brown-bashing.
According to the Guardian, Sarkozy criticised Brown's handling of the economic crisis during a 90 minute interview on French TV last night, calling some of Brown's policies "mistakes," singling out the cut in VAT particularly, and said France would not be repeating them.
The French have since tried to avoid this becoming a diplomatic row but No. 10 are reportedly angered by Sarkozy's remarks.
And not to stand idly by, when an opportunity to embarrass the PM appears, the shadow chancellor, George Osborne, said in response; "Gordon Brown claims to have saved the world. It would appear that world leaders increasingly disagree."
Anyone having as bad a week as Gordon? Best sob story wins a brownie :)Gordon Brown's had a tough week. First Jeremy Clarkson publicly insults him,... more
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Three-quarters of French people and all the main trade unions are planning to take part in what the press are calling "A Normal Thursday". Air France flights will continue to be late, and British passengers will be looked at as if they are sloppy, worm ridden turds, while French travellers are greeted like long lost friends.
The protesters are demonstrating against President Sarkozy's plans to make people work 36 hours a week and reduce their holiday entitlement from 38 hours a week to 37. The President has vowed to personally drive trains, sell cheese, and leer at foreign tourists in order to help meet the shortfall of staff in key industries.
This satire, full story here: http://thestupidtimes.blogspot.com/2009/01/as-strike-begins-france-braces-for.htmlThree-quarters of French people and all the main trade unions are planning to take... more
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