Change in France will eventually result in changes in foreign policy as well.
Viva la 30 hour work week!!!
America suffered from the exact same folks that Sarkozy describes.
Bravo Sarko!
Give credit to Sarkozy for deftly out-manouevering DeVillepin who was Chirac's hand picked successor.
While I believe that foreign policy will move slightly toward greater cross-Atlantic co-operation, Sarkozy will have the same problems his predecessors have had in attempting to "roll back" Socialist labor laws. Communist thugs in the public unions control transportation in France and can bring (and have brought) France to its knees. I was in France in '95 when strikes forced close to 100,000 small businesses to close.
Sounds like Ronald Reagan! Good luck to him.
Good speech but we shall see where it leads.
LePen ended up in second place last election and even got 21 percent of the vote in the face of all out campaign to support Chirac.
A big chunk of public opinion is for that kind of message in France but do they understand that France must change or go further down the tubes economically.
BWAHAHAHA!
BTTT
Whatever Sarkozy's intentions, whatever majority sends him into office, whatever mandate he can claim, he will still have to deal with organized opposition that can put a million people in the streets. That's the real problem here. If he can break a general strike then there's hope for economic reform, but if an alliance of socialist unions and university brats shuts the country down his good intentions will fail.
If aging Rocker/Elvis impersonator, Johnny Hallyday is supporting Sarko, the world will follow.
Sarko is an excellent candidate, very pro-free market, pro American, who has a vision of France as a working society, not a society of free loaders.
Taking on the 68ists in the current atmosphere takes a lot of courage, as does taking on the Islamic immigrants.
Sarkozy is everything that Chirac isn't. And Chirac doesn't like him and is intimidated by his popularity.
Sounds like the French version of what David Horowitz dubbed "the destructive generation."
Will Sarkozy also take on the 69-ers?
"(The generation of 1968) inculcated everywhere — in politics, in education, in society — an inversion of values and a political correctness of which today's young people are the principal victims," Sarkozy said to applause."
WOW.
IF HE WINS, HE WILL BE THE THATCHER/REAGAN OF FRANCE.
France missed out on the reassertion of Conservative values and economic policies in the 1980s, which is why they are so screwed up now.
Maybe he can lead them back to sanite'.
"(The generation of 1968) inculcated everywhere — in politics, in education, in society — an inversion of values and a political correctness of which today's young people are the principal victims," Sarkozy said to applause.He can say that again, and again, and again...HALLELUJAH!
Everyone born after our '68' generation here in America (baby boomers as we call them), who are approximately 40 and younger right now, need to listen to Sarkozy's words and take them to heart.
There may be hope for France yet.