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Vaulting ambition helped propel Nicolas Sarkozy to the Elysée Palace, but when it comes to extending his grandiose plans to Europe, the French President risks a noisy clatter to the floor...
...Speaking on French television Monday, Sarkozy admitted that "something isn't right" with the E.U., and there had been "errors" in the way it was set up. He warned that its citizens were losing faith in the project, adding, "We must therefore profoundly change our way of building Europe...
...There are too many issues on the French presidency agenda," said Hugo Brady, of the London-based Centre for European Reform. He warned that instead of overextending himself - and trying to resolve the irresolvable Lisbon Treaty morass - Sarkozy should limit himself to a few key policy issues that the E.U. can rally round...
...Brady also warned against Sarkozy's following his presidential predecessors' tradition of nakedly pushing French national interests in Europe's name. "The E.U. presidency is about achieving consensus. It's about being an honest broker, not a bulldozer," Brady said. He warned that Sarkozy's penchant for glitz and spontaneous policy announcements could be jarring in the more cautious E.U. settings. "Sarkozy has admirable energy, but he does not have diplomatic skill," he said. "At a time of fraught nerves, Europe needs someone to reassure, and I'm not sure Sarkozy is that...
...that there were no laws to "hamper an unscrupulous man of unlimited means from buying his own way into office," proposed "a very radical measure" he hoped might make elections more fair and transparent. (To his great embarrassment, Roosevelt himself had been hit with accusations that he promised a French ambassadorship to a senator from New York in exchange for $200,000 in big business campaign donations.) "The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided ... an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money," Roosevelt...