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Proof that Sarkozy's honeymoon with the formerly adoring French public is over came on Thursday - just five days after his Elysée wedding to former top model Carla Bruni. All three of the nation's newsweeklies hit kiosks with critical Sarkozy-focused cover stories. The cover line on...
For days, the French dailies have carried quotes from candidates of Sarkozy's conservative Union for a Popular Majority (UMP) party who complain of negative feedback about the President from voters ahead of municipal polling in March. Others also complain about how advisers in Sarkozy's omnipotent Elysée...
On Wednesday, for example, Jean-Pierre Jouyet, the Secretary of State for European Affairs, told reporters that the Elysée "shouldn't substitute itself for the government." The growing chorus of criticism reaching into his own government became too much for Sarkozy, who used Wednesday's weekly cabinet meeting...
In France, the former colonial power in Chad, Elysée officials told TIME that President Nicolas Sarkozy had spoken on the phone to Déby on Saturday to reiterate his support. Those officials wouldn't say whether any plans were afoot to evacuate Déby to Paris...
Indeed, in stark contrast with decades of French intervention to save beleaguered friendly governments in its former African colonies, Elysée spokesman David Martinon stressed that the focus of the French government was "assuring that all the arrangements had been made to assure the safety of our nationals". Paris...