PARIS: After four decades, France has returned to NATO's unified military command. At a stroke, President Nicolas Sarkozy overturned one of the pillars of French policy - and of the legacy of Charles de Gaulle, the founder of Sarkozy's own political (...)
MEXICO CITY: Shortly before America's elections last November, then vice-presidential candidate Joseph Biden was widely criticized for predicting that an Obama administration would almost certainly be tested by what he called a "generated (...)
French President Nicolas Sarkozy's appointment of Bernard Kouchner as France's foreign minister was a brilliant political stroke. Having beaten his Socialist rival, Ségolène Royal, Sarkozy decided to compound the Socialists' crisis by appointing to (...)
When Tony Blair, having procrastinated about his departure almost to the point of unreason, finally gives up the British premiership tomorrow, it will be to the general relief not only of the British public as a whole, but also of the overwhelming (...)
