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...these unanswered questions, the vote of confidence given to the IMF partly reflects its performance over the past few months under Strauss-Kahn, a former French finance minister who made an unsuccessful bid for the French presidency before being appointed to the job. Since the U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in September 2008, the IMF has lifted its game and put together rescue packages totaling more than $50 billion for Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Ukraine and other financially overstretched countries...
...storm of controversy continued to rage on Monday, after Royal revealed that she'd written to Spain's Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero to apologize for the "insulting" comments Sarkozy purportedly made about the Spanish leader last week. On April 16, French daily Libération reported that Sarkozy had described Zapatero as "not very clever" during lunch with a group of legislators the previous day. According to the paper, he also made belittling comments about U.S. President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, landing himself in the middle of an embarrassing international press frenzy. Addressing Sarkozy...
Love may mean never having to say you're sorry to those you hold dear, but it turns out apologizing is a pretty good way of cheesing off your enemies. Just ask French Socialist politician Ségolène Royal, who's infuriating foes on the right and left alike by making apologies for President Nicolas Sarkozy, the man who beat her out for the Elysée two years...
...more open and democratic one, his comments were widely criticized as caricaturizing and racist. In recalling them during her Dakar visit, Royal asked for "pardon for those humiliating words that never should have been spoken, and which-I tell you in all certainty-represent neither France or the French people...
...French conservatives responded with immediate outrage-just as Royal had intended. Indeed, given the unbridled fury that both of Sarkozy's public pronouncements produced, one might expect Royal's serial apologizing to have thrilled fellow Socialists. Think again. Though most leftists were pleased to see Sarkozy squirm during the international press storm his reported swipes at fellow leaders set off, few approved of Royal's apology on behalf of a nation that had said "no thanks" to her offer to lead it. (Read "Mon Dieu! Chirac More Popular Than Sarkozy...