Nicolas Sarkozy

Disgraced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become the latest establishment figure to back Emmanuel Macron in his re-election bid.

The French government introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism.

The trial of Nicolas Sarkozy concludes Tuesday in Paris, after a court sought to determine whether he broke laws on campaign financing.

A court found French former President Nicolas Sarkozy guilty of corruption and influence-peddling and sentenced him to one year in prison.

A majority of French right-wingers support an alliance between the conservative Republicans and Marine Le Pen’s populist National Rally, according to a poll.

France’s highest court ruled that former President Nicolas Sarkozy will stand trial on charges of illegally financing his 2012 presidential campaign.

PARIS — Former UEFA president Michel Platini has been arrested in relation to the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, a judicial official said Tuesday.

Oliver Stone said French President Emmanuel Macron’s trip to Washington had been “very depressing” and marked a return to the “imperialism of old France”. He was speaking Tuesday as a special guest at a film festival in Iran.

PARIS – More than 300 French dignitaries and stars have signed a manifesto denouncing a “new anti-Semitism” marked by “Islamist radicalisation” after a string of killings of Jews, to be published in Le Figaro newspaper Sunday.

PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being ordered to stand trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, in yet another humbling knockdown to the hard-charging conservative leader.

PARIS (AP) — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was handed preliminary charges Wednesday over allegations he accepted millions of euros in illegal campaign funding from the late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is being questioned by police in connection with allegations that he received 50 million euros from Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi to finance his 2007 presidential campaign.

Contents: France’s Emmanuel Macron vows no more Jungle refugee camps in Calais; Macron demands more money from Britain and to renegotiate the Le Touquet Agreement

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is calling for a meeting with embattled conservative candidate Francois Fillon and his possible replacement to find a solution to the crisis that threatens to shatter the French right.

PARIS (AFP) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to face trial over the allegedly fraudulent financing of his doomed 2012 bid for re-election, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has retired from political life after his humiliating defeat by party colleagues last night as he battled to regain the French presidency. Mr Sarkozy finished third in the first round on the primary vote for

An emotional Nicolas Sarkozy dropped out of the primary to be the centre-right Les Republicain party nominee for French president today. Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe progress through to the next round in the race to decide who will likely

PARIS (AP) — French conservatives are voting in a nationwide primary to choose their nominee for next year’s presidential election, after a campaign marked by concerns about immigration and Islamic extremism. Seven candidates are competing Sunday in the first round

PARIS (AFP) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was targeted by all six of his rivals in a punchy televised debate of candidates seeking to clinch the right-wing nomination for next year’s election. In far sharper exchanges than during last month’s

France’s ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy and former prime minister Alain Juppe will face off Thursday in a televised debate ahead of a primary widely seen as the main battle for the presidency.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is a warning to the rest of the bloc, which must learn to take decisions faster rather than looking to agree new treaties, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday.

(Reuters) – French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would offer Britain a chance to reverse its Brexit vote by negotiating a new treaty for the European Union with Germany, if he wins presidency in 2017, the Financial

Nicolas Sarkozy has suggested he will force Britain to open a migrant centre to process asylum claims from migrants if he is re-elected French President next year. Speaking during a visit to the town of Calais – which has become

PARIS (Reuters) – France needs to get tough on militants by creating special courts and detention facilities to boost security, the country’s former President Nicolas Sarkozy said in an interview published in Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche (JDD).

(REUTERS) – France’s state prosecutor said on Monday that presidential hopeful Nicholas Sarkozy should stand trial over funding irregularities in his failed 2012 re-election bid, potentially disrupting his new campaign. Sarkozy is accused of “knowingly underestimating” elements of his campaign

Nicolas Sarkozy has promised to “go to London the day after the [French] presidential election” to renegotiate an agreement allowing UK border checks to be enforced in France. The former president, who is running to regain his country’s highest office,

Arab social media has remained divided over France’s burkini ban even as the UN rights office on Tuesday welcomed the Supreme Court’s decision to suspend the ban as unconstitutional.

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced Monday that if reelected he would amend the country’s constitution to include an all-out ban on full-body burkini swimsuits.

(AFP) Paris – t would be “unconstitutional” for France to pass a law banning the burkini, and such a move could cause irreparable harm, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve warned in an interview published online late Sunday. Speaking to French daily

CHATEAURENARD, France (Reuters) – Nicolas Sarkozy said on Thursday he would impose a nationwide ban on burkinis if elected back to the presidency in 2017, positioning himself as a strong defender of French values and tough on immigration. Hundreds of

Former French leader Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday announced he will seek his party’s nomination to stand in next year’s presidential election.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on the government to be “ruthless” following the brutal murder of a priest in Normandy by jihadists, stating that France is “at war”, and that there is no choice but for her to “lead and win”. However, the government have not offered any new measures to deal with terrorism.

SAINT-ANDRE-LEZ-LILLE, France (Reuters) – Former President Nicolas Sarkozy courted supporters of France’s Front National party in a speech laced with references to French identity and values but in which he stopped short of launching his bid for re-election next year.

Marine Le Pen and her Front National (FN) party are together riding a cresting wave of support in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks. Latest polling shows the FN is on course to govern two – and possibly three – French

STRASBOURG, France (Reuters) – Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy rallied conservatives in eastern France on Wednesday, hoping to fend off a strong challenge by the far-right National Front (FN) in looming regional elections. The FN, boosted by voter concerns about

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has vowed to electronically tag all 11,500 people on France’s extremist watch list if he retakes the presidency in 2017. Mr Sarkozy also pledged to “expel forcibly all the imams who preach in radical Salafist