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Sarkozy prison memoir a bid to ‘control the story’ and protect image for political future

One month after Nicolas Sarkozy walked out of prison, the former French president's new book Diary of a Prisoner, recounting his 20 days behind bars, was released this week. Philippe Moreau-Chevrolet, a political communication specialist at Sciences Po Paris, tells RFI this is no simple memoir, but rather a calculated…

Radio France Internationale · Dec 13, 2025

Gaza protests: French students demand an end to ties with Israeli universities

Student protests against Israel have entered their second week in France. A town hall event Thursday at the prestigious Sciences Po school in Paris ended with the administration refusing to create a working group to investigate ties with Israeli universities, which students across France want to see cut over the…

France 24 · May 2, 2024

What the Israel-Hamas conflict means for regional and global economies

Thousands of lives have been lost on both sides in the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The 2 million residents of the Gaza Strip are now going through one of their worst humanitarian crises, forced to find shelter from Israeli air strikes within a densely packed territory that's under…

France 24 · Oct 19, 2023