Sarkozy and Carla Bruni
There's a donor conference on aid to Palestine on in Paris today, with Mahmoud Abbas, Tzipi Livni, Tony Blair, Condoleezza Rice and others in town. Security is tight; the matter is pressing. But what are people really talking about in the French capital this morning? Only one subject: the revelation, according to L'Express magazine, that Nicolas Sarkozy's new girlfriend is Carla Bruni, a Franco-Italian model and singer.What really caught my eye about this story, however, is not that the president, who announced his divorce from Cecilia in October, has found time in his head-spinning diary for romance. It is that the couple were apparently spotted by photograhpers this weekend, not at the Opera, nor the latest exhibition at the Grand Palais, but at…Disneyland. Given Sarkozy's Americaphilia, and his manifest weakness for light entertainment in all its early-Saturday-evening-TV-variety-show forms, this should perhaps not come as a surprise. Sarkozy is clever and sharp and brilliant in many ways but he is not an intellectual, and has no time for the coffee-drinking left-bank crowd. Note EU-Digest: Certainly a new page for France has been set by Mr. Sarkozy, only the future will tell if its good or bad?
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