Very nice piece form Charles this week ^^
Nicolas Sarkozy finally gets a chance to talk to President Obama today. Phone calls between leaders may be routine, but so desperate is the French President to get time with "my friend Barack" that the Elysée Palace is casting today's video conference via interpreters as a virtual summit.
The coolness of the US President towards enthusiastic overtures from Paris is embarrassing Mr Sarkozy. It has dampened his hopes of finding a kindred dynamic soul in Washington and founding a new Paris-Washington axis. And it is leading him to realise that he will find few takers for his ambitious plans for "refounding capitalism" at the G20 summit in London next week.
China is out. After making waves over Tibet and human rights last year, France is in Beijing's doghouse and Mr Sarkozy is the only leader to have been refused a session in London with President Hu Jintao. Mr Sarkozy annoyed President Calderon of Mexico with his behaviour on a visit there this month. Turkey abhors Mr Sarkozy's permanent veto of its entry to the European Union. Relations with his European neighbours, Gordon Brown and Angela Merkel of Germany, are are not much better than "cordial", which is diplomatic for bumpy...
More:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/world_agenda/article5973832.ece
2 comments:
Ca me rappelle une fille de ma classe de BTS qui s'etait offusquée qu'on puisse voter ségo à la place de sarko : "quoi ??? t'imagines, ségo pour representer la france ? n'importe quoi !"
Alice est pareille. Sarkozyste à fond et pendant la campagne m'a dit: "Quoi?! Je ne peux pas croire que tu votes pour Royale!"
Oui, je suis de gauche oui. Et par conviction pas par confort -_-'
Mais quand ta meilleure amie s'étonne de ça, ça fait peur: quelle image je donne de moi pour que les gens qui m'entourent s'étonnent que je vote à gauche? :-/
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