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Godeau, Rémi
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
France must revitalise relations with Africa
The France-Africa Summit is currently taking place in Nice. For strategic reasons France should maintain good relations with its former colonies, writes the daily L'Est Républicain: "President Sarkozy never stops praising this 'equitable and transparent partnership'. ... But his words about normalisation sound about as empty as a bottle gourd. ... As if the hyperpresident weren't able to put the colonial heritage behind him and straighten out the still ambiguous relations between Paris and its ex-colonies, despite the fact that he himself has no complexes regarding the past. Will the France-Africa Summit bring a renewal? It is geared toward economic issues and has been enlarged to include the giants Nigeria and South Africa. So much the better. It would be paradoxical for France to renounce its shared destiny with Africa at the very moment when China and India see it as a continent of the future: young, resource-rich and promising growth."
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Sarkozy in Versailles
French President Nicolas Sarkozy will be the first head of state in the history of the French Republic to speak before both houses of parliament in Versailles Palace. The daily L'Est Républicain comments: "Since 1875 no president has addressed the parliamentarians in person. What [Charles] De Gaulle dreamed of Sarkozy is actually doing. Sarkozy the First will speak in all his majesty. No stranger to audiovisual sparring matches, this child of the television chose to lay on the Republican decorum with the Garde Républicaine and rolls of the drum. ... There's no point questioning the strategic importance of this appearance - it's major. Nicolas Sarkozy is losing no time. He is capitalising on his victory in the European elections and surfing on a 'second state of grace'. With this symbolic intervention he is once more dominating politics in France and paralysing the opposition."
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