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8/2/07

Economist.com: France: Sarkozy: quick off the mark

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France: Sarkozy: quick off the mark

A recent cartoon in France’s left-leaning Libération showed Bernard Kouchner, the country’s foreign minister, plaintively asking: “Can I finally know what I’m supposed to do?” Mr Sarkozy’s reply? “Look handsome and shut up.” Meanwhile Cécilia Sarkozy, the eye-catching first lady, waved peace-signs to a Libyan crowd to celebrate the release of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor from eight-and-a-half years of detention in Libya. Whatever the protracted negotiations, especially by the European Union, that led to their freedom, the acclaim at the end was for the intervention of Mr Sarkozy.

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