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French President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks at a podium, gesturing with his left hand, with European Union and French flags in the background.
Nicolas Sarkozy French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, 2007.

Nicolas Sarkozy

president of France
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Political and Energy Consultant. Author of The Single Market and Tomorrow’s Europe: A Progress Report from the European Commission.
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Nicolas Sarkozy (born January 28, 1955, Paris, France) is a French politician who served as president of France (2007–12). Sarkozy was born to immigrant Greek and Hungarian parents. He qualified as a lawyer (1981) and pursued advanced studies in political science at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris (1979–81). An ambitious and highly skilled politician, Sarkozy in 1983 was elected mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he served until 2002. He first made his mark on the...

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