France Tales

Since his election as president in May last year, Nicolas Sarkozy has kept tight control of foreign policy while swinging it round towards alignments and alliances quite opposite to those of Jacques Chirac. It is now pro-Israel, pro-US and pro-Nato, where before it had been defiantly dismissive of all three.
It used to be routine. France elected a president and, a year later, the journalist given the job of assessing his foreign policy reached the inevitable conclusion, summarised in a (…)

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