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...also wants to reform pensions and liberalize the labor market - always explosive issues. His objectives for the next 100 days on hot topics like immigration, justice and education are popular, but the social context he'll be facing won't be favorable. His first major electoral test will be French municipal elections next March, when the Socialists could recapture strategic cities like Toulouse, Bordeaux, Reims, Rouen and Caen. Before then, Sarkozy counts on demonstrating the left's weakness, which he can do only as the young General Bonaparte did upon becoming First Consul: by portraying each new battle as both...
DOMINIQUE MOÏSI SENIOR ADVISER TO THE FRENCH INSTITTUTE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS...
...approached them with nationalistic designs. Sarkozy played a central role in getting E.U. leaders to accept a simplified treaty in the place of a new constitution, for example, yet he has continually criticized the European Central Bank - and attacked its president, Jean-Claude Trichet - for not shaping policy to French economic considerations. Similarly, just how good a European was Sarkozy being when he preempted years of effort by Brussels to secure the freedom of Bulgarian medics held by Libya in order to cut a deal of his own with Tripoli? Sarkozy did a marvelous job restoring relations between Paris...
MARIELLE DE SARNEZ EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE CENTRIST UNION FOR FRENCH DEMOCRACY...
...succeeded in one important area: after years of passivity and even absence of leadership under former President Jacques Chirac, Sarkozy recognized that France needed a new leader who would put himself and the nation back on center stage. Beyond that, Sarkozy's record is far less brilliant than obsequious French media have suggested, and the coming season promises to be more complicated...