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Tag Archives: Nicolas Sarkozy
Sarkozy’s bare-chested war counsel
Nothing inspires less confidence in the bases of France’s war against Libya than this photo of Bernard-Henri Lévy about to meet President Nicolas Sarkozy. It is in this state that France’s most media-savvy “philosopher” discussed the high politics of war … Continue reading
That’s Odd Syndication: Buzek, Roma and the Indigènes
The self-consciously radical French group the Indigènes de la République (“Natives of the Republic”) have copied to their website an article by Jerzy Buzek on the World War II-era genocide of the Roma. It isn’t every day that the President of … Continue reading
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Tagged France, Islamophobia, Jerzy Buzek, Muslims, Nicolas Sarkozy, Roma
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Medvedev Defends, Europeans Assault “Multiculturalism”
On the one hand, I know the debate and the burial of “multiculturalism” is a false one, largely manufactured by the European center-right to supposedly prevent gains by the far-right and tax the center-left of dangerous naïveté and self-hatred. On the … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Merkel, communitarianism, Dmitri Medvedev, France, Germany, Islamophobia, Nicolas Sarkozy
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France’s Man in Baghdad Plays James Bond
I was very tempted to entitle this post “Sarkozy’s Little Arabs” for two guests that appeared at the same time on the popular French talk show Le Grande Journal. The first was Amine Benalia-Brouch, a Frenchman of Algerian-Portuguese heritage. A member of Sarkozy’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Boris Boillon, diplomacy, France, Iraq, Nicolas Sarkozy
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