Nicolas Sarkozy

France voted on Dec. 13 with the far-right National Front (FN) hoping to win control of a region for the first time, giving leader Marine Le Pen a launchpad for her presidential bid in 2017.

Pierrette – 1st Generation

Polls opened Dec. 6 in France for a key regional vote that came three weeks after jihadist attacks in Paris that left 130 people dead.

France's conservative party leader, Nicolas Sarkozy, on Dec. 2 ruled out making any alliance with Francois Hollande's ruling Socialists to stop the increasingly popular far right from winning regional councils in elections this month.

Developments are vindicating once again the claim that relations with Turkey have always been a function of necessity, rather than love on the part of Europe. Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Nicolas Sarkozy made it amply clear at the time what they think about "Turkey in Europe." 

"I can't stand him. He's a liar," then-French President Nicolas Sarkozy told U.S. President Barack Obama four years ago, in a conversation about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama replied: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day." It was a private conversation, but we know about it because it was accidentally broadcast to journalists.

?You turn if you want to. The lady?s not for turning.?

I do not know in which context she said it, but this iconic sentence used in a speech delivered at the U.K. parliament belongs to late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. 

The prime ministers of Balkan neighbours Bulgaria and Serbia discussed the migration crisis in Europe and its implications for the region on Thursday, the Bulgarian government's press office announced.

North African states willing to cooperate or "countries like Serbia and Bulgaria" could help address the migrant crisis by setting up detention centers on their territories, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has said.

Most high-profile European leaders didn’t mince their words on Monday in the wake of the weekend’s dramatic twin “Grecian surprises” — a snap referendum and week-long capital controls — with the consensus being that the July 5 plebiscite will essentially decide Greece’s membership in the euro zone.