
France “Mortgaged Its Sovereignty” Through Sarkozy’s Alleged Corruption
The former president is on trial accused of allowing Libya to fund his 2007 presidential campaign.

The former president is on trial accused of allowing Libya to fund his 2007 presidential campaign.

“There are 500,000 dead in this war. There is an aggressor, Russia, Putin. And a victim, Ukraine. But can we think about how we get out of this?” Sarkozy said.

Continuing dialogue with Vladimir Putin is essential and possible, says Sarkozy, while condemning the West’s stubborn fixation with a contradictory, and unofficial, military commitment that is not officially assumed.

The Sarkozy affair gives an extremely degraded image of French justice, but also of French political life.