Author: Jerome a Paris

Pasqua is a former Minister of the interior of France (in 1986-88 and 1993-95). He has been involved in a number of shady stories in France in the past 30 years (I have lost count of the number of times he has been indicted) but...

This came out yesterday, but I don’t think I have seen any reference to it. It’s a new study by a think tank, so it should be treated with all the requisite care, but it IS making headlines, such as the one used for...

Khodorkovsky guilty of fraud and tax charges A Moscow court on Monday found Mikhail Khodorkovsky, formerly Russia’s richest man and founder of the Yukos oil company, guilty of fraud and tax evasion. The judge has passed a...

US tries to staunch wasteful flow of anti-terror funds Glenville is unlikely to figure high on any list of potential terrorist targets. The small town in south-east Georgia is little more than a ramshackle collection of...

I realise that’s it been almost a full month since my previous diary on that topic, but as the debates have been mostly focused on domestic issues and dominated by unknown (to most of you guys) local politicians, I did not...