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Bremer, Hans-Hagen
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Confessions of a womaniser?
In his forthcoming novel The Princess and the President former French president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing describes an affair between his hero and a princess. Now all of France is speculating on whether the author really had an affair with Lady Di. The left-liberal daily Der Tagesspiegel comments: "On both sides of the Channel this sounds simply preposterous. Nevertheless, with this book it's the 83-year-old former president himself who's got people speculating over a possible affair with Lady Di. ... All a fantasy? The confessions of a womaniser who at 83 wants to let the world know that he accomplished more than the text for a European constitution? Giscard d'Estaing is well-known for his gallantry. Lady Di too was not unmoved by his charm. That was in 1994, at a gala evening for the Year of the Child in the Royal Opera House in Versailles, to which Giscard's wife Anne-Aymone had sent out the invitations. The participants at this event were not invented."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU Constitution, » Literature, » History, » Remembrance culture, » France, » United Kingdom
Were the Bulgarian medics freed in exchange for arms?
Hans-Hagen Bremer contests that everything that happens in the world of diplomacy should immediately be made public. "However, in the case of the Bulgarian nurses, about which Nicolas Sarkozy very publicly made a big fuss, keeping the details of the deal with Libya secret was inexcusable. Foreign Minster Bernard Kouchner's denial of the existence of a military pact before parliament, despite Sarkozy's having signed it along with the nuclear memorandum, was a sad performance. Either Kouchner, who wasn't present at the signing of the agreement, wasn't informed by his boss or there really is something to hide. Either that or Gaddafi's statements weren't true. Whatever the case, for a president who promised more transparency in foreign policy the affair is embarrassing, and the longer Sarkozy keeps up the secrecy the more embarrassing it will become."
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