Nicolas Sarkozy’s Imprisonment Exposes the Deep Corruption at the Heart of European Politics

On October 21, Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of France, will enter La Santé prison in Paris, marking the first time a former French head of state has faced incarceration. This sentence—five years behind bars for conspiring to illegally finance his 2007 presidential campaign through Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi regime—is not merely a European judicial milestone; it’s a stark warning about the global erosion of political integrity.Is Europe Finally Holding Leaders Accountable, or Merely Scratching the Surface?The French court’s decision to imprison Sarkozy underscores the "exceptional gravity" of corruption that enabled foreign influence to infiltrate a nation’s highest office. For those who...