The lingering commitment to austerity of leading Western politicians in the face of impending economic tragedy is beyond belief. The dismal science is a sobriquet often wrongly applied to economics, but…
Francois Hollande has a tough challenge ahead, having won the French presidency.
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Socialist candidate Francois Hollande has won the French presidential election with 52% of the vote, ousting sitting president Nicolas Sarkozy.
In hindsight, there have been few surprises in this campaign…
Marine Le Pen's ideology cannot be defined simply as "right wing".
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By Haydn Rippon, Queensland University of Technology
Marine Le Pen’s ability to attract nearly a fifth of the vote in the first round of the French presidential election was a resounding victory for her party.
While Le Pen’s Front National (FN) did not…
Socialist candidate Francois Hollande's win in the first round of the French election signals more than "crazy" ideas; but a refashioning of political purpose that extends beyond French borders.
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The seismic forces propelling the socialist contender to the Elysee Palace have been caustically dismissed by Bret Stephens, a prominent columnist for the Wall Street Journal, as the result of the conceited…
Francois Hollande will struggle to consolidate his left-wing base and tackle Europe's economic woes.
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France went to sleep last weekend knowing that almost a fifth of those who felt compelled to vote in the first round of the presidential election chose a party formed on an openly neo-fascist platform…
Nicolas Sarkozy will seek another term as President of France this Sunday.
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The first round of the French Presidential election is set to take place this Sunday.
The latest polls show that right-wing president Nicolas Sarkozy and his centre-left contender François Hollande are…
Merkel, Sarkozy and Monti must accept drastic fiscal reforms if they want to save the Eurozone.
The announcement by credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s overnight that it could downgrade the triple-A rating of Europe’s debt rescue fund has battered market confidence, which had been buoyed…
Former EU commissioner Mario Monti will form government in Italy as Silvio Berlusconi exits.
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Is the Eurozone about to crash and burn, leaving Club Med in its wake? Not so fast.
Reports have suggested that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have discussed a strategic…
Nicholas Sarkozy is a master of the political insult.
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So Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has been called a liar in a conversation that was released on the web.
I’m not talking about the chat between Nicholas Sarkozy and Barack Obama. Rather, I…
President Obama and French leader Nicolas Sarkozy were caught speaking of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in unflattering terms at the G20 summit.
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The recent Cannes G20 meeting was ostensibly about saving Europe from falling into economic oblivion.
But a frank exchange between US President Barack Obama and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, caught…
