May 17, 2012 (Paris, Voice of America) – France’s new president, Francois Hollande, is heading to the United States (Friday) just days after taking office. The G8 and NATO summits will offer a glimpse of France’s foreign policy under its new leader. Francois Hollande took office this week, promising to unify France and help fix its [...]
May 16, 2012 (Paris, The Irish Times) – French President François Hollande will make his first foray into global diplomacy tomorrow when he meets US president Barack Obama before joining up with world leaders for G8 and Nato summits. Mr Hollande, who travelled to Berlin to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel within hours of being sworn in [...]
May 16 2012 (Washington, The Guardian) – Barack Obama is to press German chancellor Angela Merkel to support a growth package to help bail out Europe at the G8 summit this weekend amid fears in the White House that the eurozone crisis could damage the president’s re-election chances. Obama is scheduled to meet Merkel, the new French president François Hollande, the Italian [...]
London (Reuters) – Scientists from 15 countries are calling for a better political response to the provision of water and energy to meet the challenge of feeding a world of 9 billion people within 30 years. The joint statement by some of the world’s leading science academies was issued on Thursday ahead of the G8 summit [...]
Moscow (Associated Press) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will skip a planned visit to the United States this month for a key global summit and a much-anticipated meeting with President Barack Obama, the Kremlin confirmed Thursday, as he faced pressure from protests and opposition criticism at home. The White House announced Wednesday that Putin is unable [...]
