Francoise Hollande’s defeat of Americain Nicolas Sarkozy does matter when it comes to foreign policy because Sarkozy has arguably been the most alliance-friendly French leader in decades—perhaps ever. 

Sunday’s elections results in six European countries, particularly France, Greece and Germany, bode poorly for satisfactorily resolving the European Union’s ongoing financial and political crisis.

Sarkozy disregards his critics and sometimes seems to thrive on criticism.

While markets are again correctly obsessing over Italy and Spain’s poor economic growth prospects, as reflected in markedly higher government bond yields for those two countries, they seem to have taken their eye off two upcoming political events that could usher in a new and more serious phase of the...

Attempts at austerity and deleveraging in Europe have converted an economic problem into a political dilemma, with leftist governments rising against Germany's austerity-laced rescue packages. Germany now faces a tough economic decision that will involve choosing between a breakup of the current euro system and a movement toward a common fiscal policy in Europe.

French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy is not a Thatcherite. The real question: can he get the modest reforms he wants, over the objections of French labor leaders?

Nicolas Sarkozy"s party fared poorly in recent elections, but his reform agenda is still relatively popular.

A review of Nicolas Sarkozy's Testimony: France in the Twenty-First Century.