Policymakers at home and abroad failed to see the 2008 crisis as an opportunity to break from the past and imagine the world anew
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has lost his final bid to avoid a trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling
The UN Human Rights Committee calls on France to review its 2010 law banning women from covering their faces in public
Sarkozy was taken into police custody and investigated in March over allegations of ‘misappropriation of Libyan public funds and passive corruption’
Europe is braced for an election bonanza this that will determine the politics of the increasingly contested campaign to save the single currency.
France voted on Sunday in round one of a presidential ballot, against the backdrop of a feeble economy.
A gunman suspected of killing three children and a rabbi at a Jewish school in France has wounded three police officers in a shoot-out during a raid.
A gunman has shot dead at least four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse, days after soldiers were killed in similar shootings in the same area.
The Toulouse prosecutor says a gunman has opened fire in front of a Jewish school in a southwest French city killing several people.
Despite an often fawning portrayal in the Western media, they were the Lady Macbeths.
Greece’s Papandreou has won the backing of his Cabinet to push ahead with a referendum on an EU debt bailout deal. World leaders are not convinced.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces implacable German opposition to demands to use unlimited European Central Ban funds to fight the debt crisis.
You know as a country these days that you are in some kind of financial crisis when Michael Lewis shows up.
Turkey’s prime minister heads to Libya on Friday, a day after the French and British leaders were welcomed for helping to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
France said on Tuesday that negotiations were under way for the exit of Laurent Gbagbo from Côte d’Ivoire, saying the strife could be over in hours.
It was business as usual as the AU’s two-day summit stuck to its planned schedule, despite the problems in Tunisia, Egypt, Sudan and Côte d’Ivoire.
French president says his ministers underestimated "sense of suffocation" among Tunisians under Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Editors say Nicolas Sarkozy is using the French secret service to spy on journalists.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy reappointed a trusted ally as prime minister and named new defence and foreign ministers in a Sunday night reshuffle.
Thierry Henry met Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysée palace on Thursday as the president demanded answers over the French team’s humiliating exit.
