Tag: President Nicolas Sarkozy
French presidential election turns to question of identity
The race to become the next president of France is becoming a referendum on what it means to be French.
As voters prepare to head...
NY Times on France’s “Burqa Ban”
September 1, 2012
The French law banning the full-face veil from public spaces has been controversial from the start, with loud debates about the meaning...
Hollande would keep France’s burqa ban
News Agencies - April 27, 2012
France's socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande says that, if elected, he won't seek to overturn a law banning face-covering...
Angst emerges in France’s suburbs as Le Pen surges
Reuters – April 25, 2012
Marine Le Pen's breakthrough in the French election’s first round brought her anti-immigrant National Front (FN) party its highest poll...
