‘To realise that Syria deserved the cold shoulder did not require the life of a prime minister’

‘It was days after the ceasefire had been signed and the facts on the ground went square against what President Nicolas Sarkozy of France had intended’

‘If we do not act, we face a nuclear-armed Iran or a new Middle East confrontation’

As his peacemaking efforts in Georgia reveal, Sarkozy's foreign policy is cynical and incompetent

The humiliation of 1940 has cast a baleful shadow over France's postwar history. Can Nicolas Sarkozy, the first president too young to be tainted by it, usher in a new era?

Standpoint’s Mole believes the arrest of Radovan Karadzic could prove explosive for his country

‘The more Iran misbehaves, the more the West is ready to give’

The EU's Human Rights Act need not be incompatible with parliamentary sovereignty - if the government were to grow a backbone

Jews fail to understand anti-Semitism disguised as anti-Zionism

The capture of Radovan Karadzic offers hope for the future of Serbia