This is a refreshing political tone: In a dignified ceremony in a red and gold hall in the Élysée Palace, François Hollande, 57, was invested Tuesday morning as president of France, the first Socialist to hold the office since François Mitterrand l…

For the first time since the election of François Mitterrand in the 1980s, French voters elected a socialist president earlier this month. Is there anything progressive forces in Canada can learn from their French cousins? While the context is d…

IF the new president of France thinks he can go on a spending spree, Germany has other ideas. I suspect Hollander will find his fiscal hands tied.

A promise of a welcome with “open arms” in Berlin could not conceal unease among Merkel’s Christi…

From The Life of Reason by George Santayana :
quote: “Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is…

L’élection française est terminée et les Français et Françaises n’en sortent pas certains de leur avenir.Les Français comme dans beaucoup de pays occidentaux ont voté « contre ». Les programmes politiques, les solutions proposées, la valeu…

Masses of people thronged Place de la Bastille — symbolically representative of the French revolution — to cheer the electoral victory May 6 of French Socialist Party candidate François Hollande, over conservative incumbent President of the Re…

By Michael J.W. StickingsAs you know, François Hollande won the French presidency yesterday with a second-round run-off win over incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy.It was close. Hollande received the most votes in the first round, held on April 21-22, but fell…

His background and his past can help analyze what his policies for France might look like.  As for how he might be able to set back the tsunami wrought on France by the cult of islam, I fear he will  do more      for the …

By Carl Francois Hollande scratched out a victory over Nikolas Sarkozy yesterday in the French elections.I say “scratched out,” because a three point victory over a wildly unpopular president is not exactly a drubbing, but it’s also not exactl…

On election day in Paris, Place de la Bastille (home of the left) was full and Place de la Concorde (home of the right) was empty. As sure a sign as any that the Socialist Party was about to win the presidency, as it went on to do. Francois Hollande is…

I have not been a huge fan of Sarkozy, but this new president of france will be a disaster. He is kind of a eurosceptoic, but he is a socialist. The euro has fallen on news of his election.

Socialist Hollande triumphs in French presidential poll

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La forme du débat Sarkozy-Hollande a été désappointante. Elle aurait dû permettre à chacun des participants de dire ce qu’il avait à dire pour mieux éclairer l’électorat sur sa personne et son programme.Les animateurs de ce débat n’ont …

Hollande might as well stay home and read Stieg Larsson novels for all the influence he is having

La campagne présidentielle française est très intéressante. Après un premier tour vivement disputé, nous avons vu le candidat-président Nicolas Sarkozy revenir des bas-fonds des sondages pour s’approcher à 1,5 % de son adversaire socialiste F…

It doesn’t seem Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s MASSIVE ego needs viagra to remain tumescent, as his recent verbal ejaculations interjections in the media have demonstrated. Strauss-Kahn stated that he believes the highly public undoing that followed his enco…

Suddenly, everyone wants to change the tune from ‘austerity’ to ‘growth’

Campaigning on Tuesday, less than 48 hours after the first round of Presidential election…

This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Yesterday’s Alberta election certainly proved somewhat of a shocker – producing about the best possible result short of a minority scenario that would have allowed the NDP to exercise the balance of…

This and that for your Tuesday reading.- Yesterday’s Alberta election certainly proved somewhat of a shocker – producing about the best possible result short of a minority scenario that would have allowed the NDP to exercise the balance of power, as th…