6thGen
Beach Fanatic
France is stuck in a deadly economic sludge and any politician who DARES to talk about curbing back their insanely disproportionate share of retirement and benefits wil find himself/herself at the mercy of unions and riots that will literally paralize and cripple the country - so the fact that Sarkozy won on a somewhat unpopular platform of much needed drastic reform - well that was a coup! Hopefully his government will not find itself having to deal with the same issues of co-habitation that destroyed any possibility of eceonomic growth over the past 2 decades - he will hopefully have the political clout and power to enact difficult choices and the french will give him this leeway he needs in order to advance their interests and economic prospects. Make sense?
He did kowtow to the unions and embrace protectionism. Hopefully it was in word only, but regardless he was infinitely better than Royal.
