FRENCH PRESS REVIEW: He’s one of France’s most celebrated living rockstars and several French papers lead with concerns over his health. Johnny Hallyday is being treated in an LA hospital for complications arising out of an operation on a slipped disk.
INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW: Barack Obama travels to Oslo today to accept the Nobel Peace Prize. According to the Guardian, a poll conducted in Norway shows 44% of citizens take a dim view of the US President’s decision to skip lunch with King Harold.
FRENCH PRESS REVIEW: In a bid to protect Europe’s culinary delights, the European Commission is ‘codifying’ certain dishes. Unless they are prepared ‘just so’, they won’t be given the coveted ‘Traditional Specialty Guaranteed’ label (TSG).
INTERNATIONAL PRESS REVIEW: “It is one of the grim paradoxes of climate change that the nations most affected by it are those with the least political clout.” Could the solution be a walkout, asks the International Herald Tribune.
FRENCH PRESS REVIEW: France’s Immigration Minister recently called for a debate on French national identity. Yesterday, Nicolas Sarkozy made his views on the matter known in Le Monde. His article has divided France’s newspapers along predictable lines.
Two walls tell two different stories. One, Nicolas Sarkozy’s Facebook Wall. The other, the Berlin Wall. The French president says on the first he was there when the second fell, on the 9th of November. It seems that's not quite the truth.
Papers in India and Pakistan as well as around the globe are analysing the recent spate of militant attacks in Pakistan. Amongst the questions being asked - why are so many former Pakistani military personnel turning rogue?
The imminent appointment of Nicolas Sarkozy's 23-year-old son to a plum administrative job is creating ripples, even within the ruling UMP Party. The left-leaning press says the move is akin to restoring 'royal privilege'.
The election of Nicolas Sarkozy's 23-year-old son Jean as President of the La Défense business district's authority is on the front pages of several papers. The left-leaning paper Libération is calling for him to stand down.
