Nicolas Sarkozy déjà effacé du site internet de l'Elysée

REUTERS FRANCE: PARIS - Nicolas Sarkozy, à peine revenu à la vie civile, a été effacé mardi du site internet officiel de l'Elysée mais la question de l'avenir de l'ex-président de la République reste ouverte.

"Je changerai de vie, vous n'entendrez plus jamais parler de moi", avait dit l'ancien chef de l'Etat à des journalistes.

Dans l'immédiat il a prévu de partir en vacances avec son épouse, Carla-Bruni Sarkozy.

Selon d'anciens collaborateurs, il ne participera pas à la campagne des élections législatives des 10 et 17 juin. "Il va se reposer et voyager", explique l'un d'eux.

A des interlocuteurs, il a confié ces derniers jours qu'il les informerait de ses décisions sur son avenir professionnel à la rentrée. A d'autres, il a dit avoir déjà reçu des offres. Mais il n'a donné à personne de détails sur ses intentions. » | Emmanuel Jarry | mardi 15 mai 2012

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Nicolas Sarkozy Threatens to Strip Citizenship from Immigrants Who Target Police *
THE TELEGRAPH: President Nicolas Sarkozy has given warning that France will strip French nationality from any immigrant who uses violence against police or public officials.

French president Nicolas Sarkozy. Photo: The Telegraph
"French nationality should be stripped from anybody who has threatened the life of a police officer or anybody involved in public policing," Mr Sarkozy said.

Speaking in the eastern city of Grenoble, scene in recent weeks of clashes between police and armed rioters, Mr Sarkozy said that foreign minors who commit crimes would henceforth find it harder to get citizenship on coming of age.

And he promised to review the welfare payments made to non-documented immigrants living in France, in a speech made amid renewed accusations that he had swerved to the right to distract from his political woes. >>> | Friday, July 30, 2010

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TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE: Sarkozy: «La nationalité française se mérite» : IMMIGRÉS NATURALISÉS | Le président français veut pouvoir déchoir de leur nationalité les Français d’origine étrangère en cas d’atteinte à la vie d’un policier. >>> AP | Vendredi 30 Juillet 2010

Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy to Bury the Hatchet
THE TELEGRAPH: He was the only Western leader who refused to join the scramble to ingratiate himself with Barack Obama.

Irritated by hysteria surrounding the newcomer, Nicolas Sarkozy spent the year after his election issuing veiled insults and patronising digs.

Elysée officials briefed behind the scenes that the US president was a "cold fish", telling Le Figaro that "relations were easier with Bush".

He went on to deride Mr Obama's calls for a nuclear weapons-free world as "naive" and bragged that while he had enacted a cascade of reforms, his US counterpart had placed "all his bets on one" by concentrating on health care. As he rode high in the polls, the French president even crowed that Mr Obama had "lost three elections" since taking office.

The insults were so regular that Mr Obama responded by turning down an invitation to the Elysée after the commemoration of the Normandy landings last June.

But after suffering wipeout in local elections this month and facing speculation that his marriage is on the rocks, Mr Sarkozy has suddenly found the tables have turned. >>> Henry Samuel in Paris | Monday, March 29, 2010

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Sarkozy Provokes Anger with Luxury Holiday in Mexico
THE TELEGRAPH: President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla have provoked an outcry in France by spending the weekend in a £2,100-a-night beach-front villa in Mexico.

’Président de Bling’ in Mexico, enjoying a luxury getaway with his wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, at the El Tamarindo Beach and Golf Resort on Mexico’s south-eastern Pacific coast. Photo courtesy of The Telegraph
The couple spent the weekend at the El Tamarindo Beach and Golf Resort, located in a nature reserve on Mexico’s south-eastern Pacific Coast.

The villa cost £1,640 plus 17 per cent tax and 10 per cent service charge – making a total of just over £2,100 per night. However, the overall cost including security and staff is believed to have come to £45,000.

The visit was shrouded in secrecy and disclosed only after Mrs Bruni-Sarkozy inadvertently told friends at a charity event on Thursday afternoon that “I’m leaving tonight for Mexico” after her husband had burst in a little earlier.

The one-bedroom villa, owned by a multi-millionaire friend of Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón, comes with private pool, outdoor Jacuzzi, butler, cook and maid. It is set in 2,000 acres of tropical rainforest. The Elysée said the presidential couple had sought to keep the private break secret “for security reasons”.

Unemployment in France passed two million in January and the country is expected to go into recession this quarter. “I find [the holiday] very shocking at a time of international crisis and rising unemployment,” Marielle de Sarnez, the vice-president of the centrist Modem party, said.

“At root, it reveals the glaring gap between the president and the people: he is not aware of the state of the country and what the French are going through. The least a leader can do is to assume a form of solidarity with the population. Why can’t he just take a normal break? He’s not obliged to go to a palace, even if someone else is paying.” >>> By Henry Samuel in Paris | Monday, March 9, 2009

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