France-USA: a high-maintenance friendship?

Cyril Vanier interviews Christopher Dickey, Paris Bureau Chief of Newsweek; Gregory Viscusi, Reporter for Bloomberg; Richard Beardsworth, Professor of Political Philosophy at the American University of Paris (AUP); and Paul Vallet, Professor of International Relations at Sciences Po and American Graduate School in Paris.

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Click here to watch part 2 with Christopher Dickey, Gregory Viscusi, Richard Beardsworth; and Paul Vallet.

Program prepared by Narimène Laouadi.

Marc Perelman

French Politics Editor

19/12/2008 - POLITICS

Was Sarkozy an EU success?

As French President Nicolas Sarkozy's six-month presidency of the EU comes to an end, David Crossan talks to Nicolas Perruchot (Nouveau Centre MP), Pervenche Beres (Socialist MEP) and José-Manuel Lamarque (France Inter journalist).

11/12/2008 - POLITICS

2008 review: a Sarkozy wedding and an EU presidency (part 2)

This week our Politics show looks back at the highlights and lowlights of the year, in the company of a panel of foreign journalists based in France. Nicolas Sarkozy has been bustling on all fronts; but has he grown in stature? (Part 2/2)

11/12/2008 - POLITICS

2008 review: a Sarkozy wedding and an EU presidency

04/12/2008 - POLITICS

Socialists “speaking with a single voice”?

Can Martine Aubry, the new French Socialist Party leader, make good on her promise to turn the Socialists into a more united party? David Crossan interviews Sandrine Mazetier, Aubry’s former spokesperson. (Part 2)

04/12/2008 - POLITICS

France blocked by slow European Commission?

France is still waiting on a green light from the European Commission to crack on with its multi-billion euro bank aid plan. Among David Crossan's guests: Jacques Myard, an MP from France's ruling UMP Party. (Part 1)