The statement came just days after the candidate from Sarkozy’s own conservative Republican party – whom he had refused to support publicly – was eliminated in the first round of the election Paris: France’s right-wing former president Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would vote for centrist Emmanuel Macron in the run-off presidential election against far-right leader Marine Le Pen. …
Ex-president handed one-year sentence for spending almost twice the legal amount during failed 2012 re-election bid. A Paris court has handed former French President Nicolas Sarkozy a one-year prison sentence after finding him guilty of illegal campaign financing of his failed 2012 re-election bid. Sarkozy, France’s president from 2007 to 2012, was accused of having spent almost twice the maximum …
Snowballing global financial troubles were not the only item on the agenda when French president Nicolas Sarkozy visited his British opposite Gordon Brown in March 2008. Following a summit at Arsenal's Emirates stadium in north London, the pair laid out plans for France to deepen its involvement in Britain's nuclear power sector, anxious to lean on French expertise and launch …
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