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"Qu’est-ce Qu’être Français?" and French Identity
Angry young French minorities in dead-end banlieues have, in mo ments of frustration, expressed themselves crudely. Some set thousands of cars and hundreds of buildings on fire amid weeks of confrontations with riot police in 2005, leaving Paris to decipher the smoke signals. In calmer times, some of those young men offer coarse, half-joking justifications for their troublemaking along the lines of, "I'll screw France until she loves me." All bravado and misogyny aside, French-Cameroonian author Gaston Kelman suggests that those kids are simply demanding that their country truly recognize them as French--despite their darker skin or exotic names.
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The Culture Club
No one can accuse the French of letting a little global recession stand in the way of their cultural pride. The proposed new museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, a vast minimalist cube on the Marseille waterfront, will cost a hefty €175 million. But whatever the economy's plight,
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The Rise of the Right
It's really a return to the center.
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10/24/2009InternationalBlair for President
…present no problems for a putative Prime Minister Cameron. Like-minded European leaders, such as the center-right Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, also support him. The problem seems to be with Cameron's No. 2, William Hague, who leads the popular …
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10/12/2009InternationalSilvio, it's Time to Go
…initiatives where his role is marginal—for example, in the summer of 2008 he claimed it was he who sent French President Nicolas Sarkozy to Georgia to fend off the Russian invasion. Italy's military has served in Iraq and Afghanistan and suffered …
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10/09/2009InternationalFlank Shake
President Nicolas Sarkozy thought he'd scored a coup by luring an opponent into his cabinet. Instead, he may have wrecked his entire political strategy.
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10/09/2009PoliticsThanks for Not Being Bush
…S. economic leadership. "Europe must promote the idea of a radical reform of global capitalism," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a speech to the European Parliament in late 2008. "Can we, those of us in the rest of the world …
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10/09/2009BlogsSix People Ticked Off by Obama's Nobel Win
University. His award today is clearly ruffling a few feathers. Here’s six people who must be seriously ticked off. 1. Nicolas Sarkozy . Obama’s French frenemy is already tired of living in the American’s shadow, both literally and figuratively. The
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