Sarkozy Arrives In UK With First Lady Carla Bruni

In an interview held before he left, he appealed to Great Britain to play a more active role within the European Union. The French president also called for closer cooperation in areas concerning the economy, immigration, security and defense.

Source: Radio Netherlands

President Nicolas Sarkozy and ex-fashion model Carla Bruni were wed last Thursday according to L’Est Republicain but the story was neither confirmed nor denied by the Elysée. The newspaper earlier on also broke the story about President Sarkozy’s divorce last October from Cécilia, his wife of 11 years.

The Italian model turned singer who has supposedly wedded the French president declared in an interview with Le Figaro Magazine last year Carla Bruni « vivre, vivre, vivre » that monogamy bored her preferring polygamy or polyandry (polygamy for women). They met at a dinner hosted by an advertising executive friend of the President last 14th November or exactly two months ago.

The whirlwind romance, engagement and wedding, if the latter indeed took place, will undoubtedly catch the French off guard despite the news having hogged the headlines at home and abroad these last two months but in my view, France will get over the “shock” and felicitations will follow.

Many conservative French (and Europeans) will be asking the ultimate question, “Why so fast?” but trust the energetic president to answer that one fast too. Many will be concerned and will be adamant that no breach of national security should be committed in the name of this presidential marriage. Some quarters will surely be wondering if the DGSE (Direction Générale de Sureté Extérieure), the French foreign intelligence service, has done its duty by “checking on Ms Bruni.” I’m sure the French Secret Service is already “on top of the situation.”

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