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Merkel, Sarkozy seek new EU treaty to save euro

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - Dec. 05 - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that they would prefer a treaty agreed by all 27 members of the European Union but would also accept a treaty among just the 17 countries that use the euro. ...

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Editorial: Europe at the Brink

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 22:09:03 -0700

New York Times - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - Time is running out for Europe’s leaders to extricate Greece from its current unsustainable debt.

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Droughts, Floods And Food

Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman - Feb. 07 (Opinion) - World prices of food are surging, and one major factor is the disruption caused by extreme weather.

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France refuses to end Roma deportations

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:50:39 -0700

BBC News - Sep. 10 - Mr Besson (left) was accompanied by colleague Pierre Lellouche France will not stop deporting Roma (Gypsy) people, French Immigration Minister Eric Besson has said on a visit to Romania. Reacting to the European Parliament's call for deportations to

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Goodbye to la belle France?

Thu, 17 May 2007 12:25:17 -0700

The Guardian - May. 17 (Editorial) - the fact that the French have chosen such a civilised, civilising state over the barbarities of the US, and delivered good public services with a quality that shames their British equivalents, only shows their commitment to making the revolutionary values of liberty, equality and fraternity real. Or so it seems if you can blind yourself to the huge problems of unemployment among young people and the poverty and alienation of those from ethnic minorities.

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Can an American lead the French?

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:57:47 -0700

Foreign Policy - By Patrick Belton - May. 16 (Opinion) - Nicolas Sarkozy may be his country's most unabashedly pro-U.S. leader since Lafayette. France's assertive new president has promised drastic economic reforms ï¿½ la Anglo-Amï¿½ricain, and believes he has a mandate for change. He vowed a modernizing "rupture" with French politics during the campaign and said French politicians should emulate Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair. He speaks often of his admiration for the United States, and his rhetoric of hard work and appeals to the "France that gets up early" is pure Ronald Reagan. Accordingly, his proposals include lower corporate taxes, smaller public sector pensions, and a relaxation of the sacred 35-hour workweek. Make no mistake, France needs Sarkozy's medicine--badly. According to the Economist, its growth rate is the slowest of any large European country. Government spending eats up half of gross domestic product--the highest share of the major economies. During the past quarter century, France's per capita GDP has dropped from seventh to 17th in the world. Unemployment is entrenched around 10 percent nationwide, and it is at least twice as high in the banlieues, the hardscrabble suburbs dominated by marginalized North African immigrants and their descendants.

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L'Adulte: Can Sarkozy reform France?

Mon, 07 May 2007 10:47:07 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By John Fund - May. 07 (Opinion) - Conservative Nikolas Sarkozy's comfortable victory over Socialist Ségolène Royal in France's presidential race may indicate that Europe's slowest-growing major economy is finally ready for some change. Long derided as a "center of social rest" for its cradle-to-grave welfare state, mandatory 35-hour work week, public-sector strikes and ossified employment rules, France has voted for a new president who claims he wants to shake things up. "France does not fear change," Mr. Sarkozy told his supporters as the vote progressed yesterday, "France hopes for it."

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Will France choose Sarko or the road to ruin?

Sat, 05 May 2007 10:47:36 -0700

Daily Telegraph - By Simon Heffer - May. 05 (Opinion) - It rarely happens to a country that a clear opportunity is presented to it to save itself from ruin. Only once since the war has it happened to Britain, in 1979, when the people realised that the end of the road had been reached with the consensus that had prevailed since the Second World War, and it was time to start again on a different basis. Tomorrow, France can choose to have its 1979.

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