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Romney Embraces Growth, Leaving Austerity To Europe

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Ward - May. 19 (Opinion) - Austerity is out. Growth is in. And Mitt Romney's campaign has taken notice. Politicians in Europe and in President Barack Obama's administration can't get enough of the G word these days. "Growth must be a priority, at the same time as we put in place some fiscal compact to improve our finances," said the new French President Francois Hollande, during a visit with Obama in the Oval Office on Friday.

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Hollande Ousts Sarkozy in French Presidential Election

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Steven Erlanger, Nicola Clark - May. 06 (News Report) - François Hollande swept into office on Sunday, becoming the first Socialist to be elected president of France since François Mitterrand left office in 1995. Mr. Hollande’s campaign promised a kinder, gentler, more inclusive France, but his victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy will also be seen as a challenge to the German-dominated policy of economic austerity in the euro zone, which is suffering from recession and record unemployment.

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Is US a model for austerity-wary Europe?

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - By Laurent Belsie - May. 05 (News Analysis) - America's poor jobs report has rattled world markets. Germany's DAX index fell 2 percent Friday. Wall Street saw its worst week of the year, as slowing job growth stoked fears that recovery in the United States is faltering. Last month, the economy added only 115,000 jobs.

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French presidential campaign ends with Sarkozy trailing

Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Edward Cody - May. 05 (News Report) - France wound up a long and rancorous presidential campaign Friday with opinion polls predicting victory for Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate who promises economic stimulus measures to soften the austerity cutbacks imposed by President Nicolas Sarkozy.

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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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Greek debt 'threatens Eurozone'

Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

BBC News - Jun. 19 (News Report) - The Greek debt crisis is endangering the economies of at least five other EU countries, the head of the eurozone group of finance ministers has warned. Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said Germany was "playing with fire" with a plan to involve private creditors in resolving the crisis. Eurozone finance ministers are set to release 12bn euros (£10bn) in loans later on Sunday. PM George Papandreou confirmed talks over a second bail-out are going on. The 12bn-euro loan is the latest tranche of an EU and IMF aid package, agreed in May last year, worth a total of 110bn euros. Speaking on Sunday at the start of three days of debates, Mr Papandreou said that Greece was in talks for a new bail-out "roughly equal" to the first package, and called for a referendum in the autumn on "changes to the political system", including to the country's constitution. Mr Papandreou asked parliament to support the new cabinet, saying Greece was giving the impression it was divided over the financial reforms, which was not helping its economic situation. MPs will vote on a confidence motion on Tuesday after Friday's cabinet reshuffle saw former Defence Minister Evangelos Venizelos replacing George Papaconstantinou in the finance ministry.

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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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U.S. Orders Diplomats to Stop Telling Truth Until Further Notice

Thu, 02 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

borowitzreport.com - By Andy Borowitz - Dec. 02 (Comedy News) - In the first major policy fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures, the State Department has ordered all U.S. diplomats to “cease and desist telling the truth until further notice.” “We are working overtime to try to make sure that leaks like these don’t happen again,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters. “But until we’ve got the leaks plugged, it’s incumbent on all our diplomats to put on their lying caps.” Secretary Clinton noted that since many US diplomats are major political donors with long careers in the business world, “this shouldn’t be a reach for them.”

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Capitol Hill reaction to poverty figures sidetracked by political concerns

Fri, 17 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Michael A. Fletcher - Sep. 17 (News) - Deborah Weinstein, a longtime advocate for the poor, calls the news that one in seven Americans is living in poverty "a national emergency." But for much of Washington's political class, the shocking new poverty numbers provoked not alarm about the poor but further debate over tax cuts for the middle class.

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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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Iranian media warned after paper calls Carla Bruni-Sarkozy a 'prostitute'

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Ian Black - Aug. 31 (News Report) - Keyhan daily attacked French first lady after she condemned stoning sentence against woman convicted of adultery The Iranian government today urged the country's media to refrain from insults after a hardline newspaper twice described Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, France's first lady, as a "prostitute". The Keyhan daily paper made the comments after Bruni-Sarkozy condemned the stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery. Ramin Mehmanparast, a foreign ministry spokesman, said insulting foreign dignitaries was incorrect and was not officially sanctioned. The paper first called Bruni-Sarkozy a prostitute on Saturday and repeated the comment today. It said that, like Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman sentenced to stoning, ...

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A Modest Proposal: Outlaw Retrograde Mormon Dress

Wed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - May. 26 (Opinion) - We encourage you to share any articles or material you find on Miller-McCune.com with friends and colleagues. Please fill in the fields below with the name and e-mail address. Then fill in the same information for you. Miller-McCune will not keep any

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Sarkozy The Human Bomb

Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:58:45 -0700

New Yorker - By Adam Gopnik - Aug. 30 (Special Report) - In the days since the election, the sense of Sarkozy as a risk-taker has grown stronger, and so has the sense that he is something of a human bomb himself, an unknown explosive quantity whose ends and effects are hard to gauge.

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Sarkozy, Allies Hold Majority, Lose Seats

Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:59:17 -0700

Washington Post - By Molly Moore - Jun. 18 (News Report) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling party won a majority in parliamentary runoff elections Sunday, but Socialists -- contrary to all poll predictions -- gained more seats than they had held in the previous assembly, foreshadowing tough battles ahead for the new government's proposals.

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France's new president - An inclusive government

Thu, 17 May 2007 16:02:18 -0700

Economist - May. 17 (News Analysis) - The polished brass hats, shiny trumpets and 21-gun salute that marked the investiture of Nicolas Sarkozy as president in place of Jacques Chirac on May 16th were all part of the traditional ceremonial pomp at the Elysée. Yet the new President Sarkozy promptly set out to deliver his promised break with the past, flying to Berlin the same day. Two days later he was expected to pick a broad-based government. To no surprise, his prime minister will be François Fillon, a Gaullist former social-affairs minister who pushed through a mini-reform of state pensions in 2004. A late convert to the Sarkosphere, he has become a loyal right-hand man and foil to the hyperactive Mr Sarkozy, tough enough to push reforms but not so strong as to overshadow what will be a hands-on presidency

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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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Sarkozy names Fillon as his Prime Minister

Thu, 17 May 2007 11:34:30 -0700

The Times - By Nico Hines - May. 17 (News Report) - The man who organised Nicolas Sarkozy's slick and victorious campaign for the French presidency was rewarded today with the post of Prime Minister.

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Colonial-Era Ties to Africa Face a Reckoning in France

Wed, 16 May 2007 11:33:46 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By David Gauthier-Villars - May. 16 (News Report) - On the evening of March 4, 10 French paratroopers reached Birao, Central African Republic, and dropped near an airstrip captured by rebel militia. The paratroopers ambushed the rebels, killing several and reclaiming the airport for the government. In France, neither the public nor parliament was informed of the attack for three weeks. Coordinating the mission was the "Cellule Africaine," a three-person office nestled behind the Elysée, France's presidential palace. This wasn't the first time the office has been involved in the Central African Republic's internal affairs: In 1979, France toppled the former colony's self-proclaimed emperor and reinstalled his predecessor. For the past half-century, the secretive and powerful "African Cell" has overseen France's strategic interests in Africa, holding sway over a wide swath of former French colonies. Acting as a general command, the Cell uses France's military as a hammer to install leaders it deems friendly to French interests. In return, these countries give French industries first crack at their oil and other natural resources. Sidestepping traditional diplomatic channels, the Cell reports only to one person: the president. But with France's new President Nicolas Sarkozy preparing to assume office later today, the African Cell's days may be numbered. There are accusations the French military bears some responsibility for the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994, charges the government strenuously denies. There's fierce debate over the French military's continuing presence in the Ivory Coast, where soldiers were dispatched in 2002 when rebels threatened to overthrow President Laurent Gbagbo.

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Sarkozy officially takes office as France's 23rd president

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:44:36 -0700

Los Angeles Times - By Sebastian Rotella - May. 16 (News Report) - PARIS -- Taking office as France's 23rd president today, Nicolas Sarkozy reiterated his promises of change as he assembled a streamlined, historically diverse Cabinet that is expected to include a prominent leader of the leftist opposition. Sarkozy, 52, succeeded two-term incumbent Jacques Chirac, 74, during an elegant ceremony at the Elysees Palace. Chirac greeted Sarkozy on a red carpet in the stone courtyard, then brought him inside for a 35-minute meeting during which Chirac turned over the top-secret codes to France's nuclear arsenal. In his inauguration speech, Sarkozy pledged that he will reach out across ideological lines, an effort that is causing tensions among some of his lieutenants who fear they will be shut out of coveted Cabinet posts. "To all those who want to serve France, I say from the bottom of my heart that I am ready to work with them," Sarkozy said. "I will not ask them to deny their convictions, I will not ask them to betray their friendships, I will not ask them to forget their history. It is up to them to decide in their soul and conscience of free men how they want to serve France."

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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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French President Nicolas Sarkozy Promises Change

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:52:59 -0700

NPR - By Eleanor Beardsley - May. 16 (News Report) - icolas Sarkozy became the new president of France on May 16, when he took over for Jacques Chirac. Although he is a conservative, Sarkozy offers French citizens the option of radical change. Sarkozy, who is pro-American, has said France needs to get back to work to solve its economic woes. The 52-year-old is head of the ruling Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) party. Sarkozy came to power the hard way, said his biographer Catherine Nay. He gave his first political speech at the age of 20. The long-haired, bell-bottomed youth leader of his party was allotted two minutes for the speech. He took 10, impressing party chairman and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. And while he had his sights set on the French presidency from that moment, he worked his way up the ladder over 32 years by first sweeping floors and putting up posters. Most politicians in France attend an elite political school, later joining a minister's staff, Nay said.

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France's Sarkozy arrives to be sworn in as president

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:25:28 -0700

Reuters - By Jon Boyle - May. 16 (News Report) - Nicolas Sarkozy arrived smiling at France's Elysee Palace on Wednesday to be sworn in as president for a five-year term in which he has vowed to reform the country.

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Taking Office, Sarkozy Vows to Bring Change

Wed, 16 May 2007 11:27:57 -0700

New York Times - By Katrin Bennhold, Graham Bowley - May. 16 (News Report) - Nicolas Sarkozy was officially inaugurated as France's 23rd president today, vowing to bring far-reaching change, but also order and authority, to his country. He then left for Germany to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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Potential Players in Sarkozy Government

Wed, 16 May 2007 12:46:47 -0700

Associated Press - May. 16 (News Report) - Potential players in French President Nicolas Sarkozy's government: FRANCOIS FILLON: The four-time Cabinet minister is widely expected to be named prime minister. A member of Sarkozy's inner circle, Fillon, 53, shares the new president's taste for change. As minister for social affairs from 2002-2004, Fillon spearheaded reform in France's retirement policy that triggered nationwide protests. High school reforms he championed as education minister also led to protests and Fillon was forced out of that ministry in 2005. BERNARD KOUCHNER: A doctor by training and prominent Socialist, Kouchner, 67, has been tapped as a potential foreign minister. Co-founder of the aid group Doctors without Borders in 1971, Kouchner was a U.N. special representative to Kosovo and in 1994, sought to bring an end to the Rwandan genocide, meeting with government and rebel forces. In 2003, he spoke in favor of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq -- while France's government led opposition against it.

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