Ex-French President Sarkozy in police custody

NZ Herald / AP Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in police custody, apparently under questioning in an investigation linked to allegations that he took $50 million in illegal campaign funds from Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. But will the shocking detention and sordid case torpedo Sarkozy’s chances at a presidential comeback? Maybe not. Sarkozy, a political…

Ex-French President Sarkozy in police custody

NZ Herald / AP Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in police custody, apparently under questioning in an investigation linked to allegations that he took $50 million in illegal campaign funds from Libya’s Moammar Gadhafi. But will the shocking detention and sordid case torpedo Sarkozy’s chances at a presidential comeback? Maybe not. Sarkozy, a political…

Another outbreak of Blair Disease

Financial Times 12 Mar 2014 SImon Kruper At a reception recently I met the former president of a small post-communist country. I know that’s what he was because he told me so immediately. He then began dropping names of London-based ex-Soviet oligarchs – his friends and business associates, he implied. This man had Blair Disease,…