Word: coloniale
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But things may not be that clear-cut. Voter turnout - around 52%, the highest since 2004 - may have been inflated by the stature of the candidates, according to Ma Ngok, a political scientist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chan, a chief secretary in the last British colonial administration...
If French President Nicolas Sarkozy knew he was certain of glowing treatment in the U.S. by marketing himself as the anti-Jacques Chirac, that same reputation will earn him a chillier greeting during his state visit to Algeria, where his predecessor is still fondly remembered. Indeed Sarkozy's embrace of...
As he headed into the three-day visit to Algeria Monday, the usually combative Sarkozy and his team took pains to quell the rising tensions between France and its former colonial possession, and wave off the anti-Semitic comments in particular as the uttering of a loose cannon seeking to...
Surprisingly to some, the most striking comments Sarkozy had upon arrival Monday night had to do with France's own colonial past, which he said was "profoundly unjust, [and] contrary to the three founding words of our republic: liberté, egalité, franternité". The view reversed Sarkozy's attitudes...
Indeed, despite Sarkozy's acnowledgement of the often brutal French colonialization - and the chilling of relations between Paris and Algiers it had provoked in the past - it's unlikely his comments will fully satisfy Algerian critics like President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who once likened French occupation of his country to Germany...