France has a long history of playing a key role in shaping modern diplomacy. French diplomacy is characterized as conservative, tough, purposeful, and strategic. France engages in both multilateral and bilateral diplomacy, utilizing international organizations like the EU and summits. Within the EU, France supports strengthening the Commission but wants the Council to remain dominant in decision making. However, France has also opposed some EU policies like Turkey's candidacy. Domestically, Sarkozy banned some religious symbols in schools and criticized the burqa as oppressing women.

1. France
The Diplomatic Profile
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Olga Danyukova

2. General Profile
 French Diplomacy played a big role in shaping
modern international diplomacy
 Conservative
 Tough
 Purposeful
 Strategic Autonomy
 Diplomacy of distinctiveness and legality

3. Diplomatic Past
o Cardinal de
Richelieu
-negotiations
o Charles De Gaulle
-”de grandeur”
o Mendes France
-”politics of choice”
o Jack Chirac
-”movement
diplomacy”

4. Diplomatic Style and Methods
 Multilateralism
-Multilateral World Order
 Bilateralism
-Franco-German
relations
 Summits
-G8
 Personal Diplomacy
-Nicolas Sarkozy
 International
Organizations
-EU, UN

5. France and EU
 Member of the
European Union in the
1950s.
 It’s permanent
representation in the
European Union plays a
key role in expressing
France’s positions
within the European
institutions

6. France and EU
 Strength of the global economic
and political influence of the EU
 Its role in common European
defense.
 Development of a Common
Security and Defense Policy (CSDP)
with other EU members
 Led the way in implementing the
Schengen agreement (open borders
for people) and EMU

7. France and EU
 France cooperating with
Germany, and Britain
persuade Iran to accept
International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) inspections
of its nuclear energy sites
 Want the EU to have a
strong Commission and a
strong President of the
Commission but Council,
must remain paramount in
decision making

8. France and EU
 Supported “qualified
majority voting (QMV)”
 Failed in the first
stages of an EU
immigration and
asylum policy
 Did not gain much in
advancing a nascent
security and defense
policy (ESDP)

9. France and EU
 Develop EU missions
 under the mandate of the
UN.
 France failed to encourage
the more European
response in Lebanon
 Often use of force for
military operations abroad
within the EU, the UN or
NATO.
 Opposed Turkey’s candidacy
for EU membership
Lebanon Prime Minister Saad Hariri

10. Religion issues
 Ban “conspicuous”
religious symbols in
schools. Prohibiting
the wear of head
scarves, religious
symbols, such as
large crosses and
the yarmulke.

11. Sarkozy’s domestic “arab policy”
“The burqa is not a religious sign. It is
a sign of the subjugation, of the
submission, of women”
“We cannot accept
in our country
women imprisoned
behind bars, cut off
from social life,
deprived of
identity.”

12. Sarkozy and EU
 Conservative French interpretation of the
EU law on immigration policies
 Sovereignty vs. EU law

13. Foreign Policy Principles
 The construction of
Europe
 International security
 Action at the UN
 International
cooperation
 Humanitarian action
 The fight against
terrorism
 Protect the french in
the world

14. Conclusion
 New energetic style rhetoric and
vision
 Nicolas Sarkozy did not bring any
significant changes to the diplomacy
 Diplomacy of France is a modern
type of “grandeur” and marked by
continuity

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