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Nicolas Sarkozy (Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sarközy de Nagy-Bocsa)

Date of Birth: 28 January 1955
Place of Birth: Paris, France


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Espion embarrassant

In his diaries Bertrand who headed the Renseignements Généraux for 12 years links President Nicolas Sarkozy to Pierre Falcone a businessman accused of helping to sell arms worth US$790 million to Angola in 1993-8...


Facing Nkunda

Kouchner who often contradicts President Nicolas Sarkozy argues that such a force could repeat the success of the EU’s Artemis intervention in Congo’s north-east Ituri region in mid-2003...


Pirates afloat

French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants the maritime police to take both ‘preventative’ and ‘punitive’ actions against pirates...


Elections at last

In May Nicolas Sarkozy became the first French President in a decade to visit the country following the Angolagate arms deal scandal of the early 1990s (see Pointer)...


The dead bite back

Since President Nicolas Sarkozy took office in May 2007 he and his government had been trying to re-establish relations...


Wasteful wars, foreign friends

Unsolicited bids Offering military assistance to a country that did not request it is extremely bad manners responded a seasoned Nigerian analyst after French President Nicolas Sarkozy and British Premier Gordon Brown offered to send their troops to the Delta to stop violence and rampant oil theft...


Friends old and new

Meanwhile French President Nicolas Sarkozy's visit on 23 May led to promises of a 'strategic alliance' and closure for various scandals (AC passim)...


Apartheid's awful legacy

ANC Chairman and presidential hopeful Jacob Zuma was similarly remiss initially sticking with a previous engagement to chat to French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris while the violence was at its worst...


The ex-revolutionary front

Without embarrassment Britain's ex-Premier Tony Blair and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have extolled Gadaffi's transformation into the West's new best friend seller of oil and buyer of nuclear power installations (non-military of course)...


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