Nicolas Sarkozy
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France: Merciful executioners
13 April 201260 Le Monde Paris -
France: In shock
20 March 201245 Le Monde Paris -
France: Marathon men
19 March 201229 Le Soir Brussels -
Together apart: Europe disunited
15 March 2012PresseuropBlog -
France: Sarkozy campaign targets Schengen
12 March 20129411PresseuropLe Figaro, Libération, Mediapart & 2 others -
Fiction: Hitchhiker’s Guide to the eurozone crisis
2 March 201234410 Cicero Berlin -
France-Germany: Merkel seeks to save marriage of convenience
7 February 201277PresseuropLibération, Le Figaro, Le Monde & 2 others -
Hungary: Underground Europe
26 January 201235 Cicero Berlin
Europe must renegotiate agreements on the free movement of people, or France will cease to apply them. The ultimatum announced by Nicolas Sarkozy, currently campaigning for re-election to the French presidency, has largely been viewed as a bid to attract more votes rather than an attempt to initiate real political change.
What if the euro crisis were merely a devilish experiment set up by a gigantic computer disguised as Planet Earth? The Berlin cabaret artist Horst Evers runs though the euro crisis – but by the rules of Douglas Adams’ alternative universe. And he finds the human race isn’t quite up to their job.
With 80 days left to run before the first round of French presidential elections, the German Chancellor has joined the campaign alongside her most precious ally in Europe, Nicolas Sarkozy — an initiative judged risky on both sides of the Rhine.