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Showing posts with label France. Show all posts
Showing posts with label France. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 9

FT: Death of astute Gabon ruler marks end of 'Francafrique'

Matthew Green on the death of Gabon's Omar Bongo.

Full article may be read here.

Monday, April 6

Paris liberation made 'whites only'

By: Mike Thomson. Full article can be read here.
This is not directly related to a current event, but I thought it is important that people should be aware of a story like this, even if it occurred at the end of the Second World War.

Tuesday, February 24

The Guardian: Sarkozy promises "unlimited cooperation"

By: Stephen Brown. Full Article May Be Read Here. Also, Italian version May Be Read Here

Blogger Comment:
In memory of a long and painful story: In 1987 Italians voted a referendum banning nuclear energy. For years we discussed about the adequacy of the referendum nowadays. Until Berlusconi threw years of parlamentary confrontations in the garbage bin unilaterally taking decisions on the footprint of his cool friend Putin! It may even be the right thing to do.It's just not the right way...it's berlusca way!