Which is your opinion on the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy to French presidential election?
The impression I’ve gotten is that Sarkozy’s election had more to do with domestic policy and less to do with France’s relationship with America. (Apologies to my fellow Americans, but the world doesn’t always revolve around us!) It seems to have become obvious that there are serious problems with how the French economy is regulated that could jeopardize France’s position in the world and even within the EU. The labor laws that guarantee so much security and quality of life are allowing other EU countries to vastly outperform France in terms of growth in GDP, while driving France’s best, brightest and most ambitious overseas in search of better opportunities. Like it or not, France must now compete on the global stage. Royale basically just offered more of the same, which is basically just a slow decline and death on the world market. I think the majority of Frenchmen have finally realized the same thing the British did in the ’80s: the post-WWII socialist policy is a dead-end. Let’s h
