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Documentary telling the stories of the battles to keep the European Union together, with contributions by presidents, prime ministers and their closest advisers.
The opening edition reveals how David Cameron was pushed by the Conservative Party's fixation with Europe to call the Brexit referendum, with Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk discussing how Cameron negotiated with EU leaders over the concessions he felt he needed to win the referendum - and how the Europeans saw it
Documentary telling the stories of the battles to keep the European Union together, with contributions by presidents, prime ministers and their closest advisers.
The opening edition reveals how David Cameron was pushed by the Conservative Party's fixation with Europe to call the Brexit referendum, with Jean-Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk discussing how Cameron negotiated with EU leaders over the concessions he felt he needed to win the referendum - and how the Europeans saw it
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/29/nicolas-sarkozy-to-face-trial-for-corruption-and-influence-peddling
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/29/nicolas-sarkozy-to-face-trial-for-corruption-and-influence-peddling
Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sent to trial for corruption and influence peddling.
The case centres over attampts Sarkozy allegedly made to contact a senior judge who was investigating claims that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally funded.
Sarkozy is alleged to have promised the judge a comfortable promotion in return for information about the fraud inquiry.
The judge and Sarkozy’s lawyer, Thierry Herzog, have also been ordered to stand trial on the same charges. All three have denied any wrongdoing; the former leader’s lawyers announced he would appeal against the decision to send the case to court.
This new legal setback came days after Sarkozy was formally put under investigation over claims he took €50m (£44m) from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in illegal donations for his successful 2007 presidential campaign, which he also denied. He went on prime time television to denounce the allegations as “crazy, monstrous”.
In this latest case, Sarkozy is accused of contacting Gilbert Azibert, then a senior judge in France’s highest court, the court of cassation, in 2014 – two years after he left office – via his lawyer Thierry Herzog in order to obtain information about an investigation being carried out about his 2007 campaign funding. In this instance, Sarkozy had been accused of taking envelopes of cash in illegal donations from the late Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L’Oréal fortune.
The case centres over attampts Sarkozy allegedly made to contact a senior judge who was investigating claims that his 2007 presidential campaign was illegally funded.
Sarkozy is alleged to have promised the judge a comfortable promotion in return for information about the fraud inquiry.
The judge and Sarkozy’s lawyer, Thierry Herzog, have also been ordered to stand trial on the same charges. All three have denied any wrongdoing; the former leader’s lawyers announced he would appeal against the decision to send the case to court.
This new legal setback came days after Sarkozy was formally put under investigation over claims he took €50m (£44m) from the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi in illegal donations for his successful 2007 presidential campaign, which he also denied. He went on prime time television to denounce the allegations as “crazy, monstrous”.
In this latest case, Sarkozy is accused of contacting Gilbert Azibert, then a senior judge in France’s highest court, the court of cassation, in 2014 – two years after he left office – via his lawyer Thierry Herzog in order to obtain information about an investigation being carried out about his 2007 campaign funding. In this instance, Sarkozy had been accused of taking envelopes of cash in illegal donations from the late Liliane Bettencourt, heiress to the L’Oréal fortune.
"100s of thousands of syrian refugees"
Typical BBC.
More accurate is "Many 100s of thousands of economic migrants from as far afield as bangladesh and sub saharan africa".
Typical BBC.
More accurate is "Many 100s of thousands of economic migrants from as far afield as bangladesh and sub saharan africa".
Did the BBC SERIOUSLY just try and twist that to make it look like Cameron had good worthwhile hard concessions out of the EU and it was a stupid British public for not seeing this?
I thought Cameron called the referendum because he was afraid of losing votes to the SDP..
but beleived he could persuade us to stay in.
It is called being too clever for his own boots.
Still at least he is honest enough to say we must leave now, as that was the peoples choice.
but beleived he could persuade us to stay in.
It is called being too clever for his own boots.
Still at least he is honest enough to say we must leave now, as that was the peoples choice.
...had to delay watching....will see later
Cameron had to give us a referendum, he thought, to try and combat the rise of UKIP.
All this Brexit BS is Cameron's fault ! ( and.... Farage, Putin, Aaron Banks )
Cameron had to give us a referendum, he thought, to try and combat the rise of UKIP.
All this Brexit BS is Cameron's fault ! ( and.... Farage, Putin, Aaron Banks )
just watching the fall of france and the germans marching through paris
an apt lesson for this time methinks
an apt lesson for this time methinks
Mass migration loving BBC A biased as usual on this tonight.
The way they keep saying EU countries should take "their share" of fake asylum seekers, as if telling Germany who had invited them in to "sod off" was amoral, it's quite shockng. And as usual lots of footage of sad looking kids, not the droves of young adult male economic migrants from anywhere BUT syria.
The way they keep saying EU countries should take "their share" of fake asylum seekers, as if telling Germany who had invited them in to "sod off" was amoral, it's quite shockng. And as usual lots of footage of sad looking kids, not the droves of young adult male economic migrants from anywhere BUT syria.
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