French elections: Conservative Sarkozy versus Socialist Segolene Royal
The first round of the French elections are over, and the top two vote getters are heading to the May 6 run-off election:
France’s version of ‘leadership’
Reader LCVRWC has sent me a couple of tips this week on France’s volunteering to step up to the plate and ‘lead’ an international force in Lebanon. They sounded strong at first, but days later, backed off. Jules Crittenden, writing in the Boston Herald today, explains:
French rioters win
The French government has caved in to the demands of French rioters in France who were protesting the First Job Contract (CPE). What was/is the CPE?:
Chirac storms out of EU meeting in a huff
…. because a fellow Frenchman was addressing EU leaders in English, rather than in French: