Word: socialists
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...much for the show's moderator, who replied that they were actually no more than tuna cans. Still, this would hardly be the first time free food has come in pro-Chavez packaging. In June, mothers complained that an elementary school in Caracas was handing out red "socialist" lunch boxes on which were painted the slogan "With Chavez, only one government" and the logo of the Chavista mayor's office...
...Sarkozy also demonstrated his crowd-pleasing flair in tapping Jacques Attali, a leftist intellectual and erstwhile adviser to former Socialist President Fran?ois Mitterrand, to head an elite panel on ways to unshackle the economy. Attali's appointment continues Sarkozy's habit of "opening" government to leading figures from the opposition. "When you get down to it, maybe be I'm the person who knows how to exploit the talents of the Socialist Party best," he said sardonically. "They have very good people, and ones they hardly use at all. Maybe during another incarnation I was a director of human resources...
...everyone was won over by the Sarko Show, nor the policies it sought to introduce. Socialist Party economic expert and former Economy and Finance Minister Michel Sapin described the speech as big on generalities but short on detail. "This speech lacked everything we were waiting: for concrete and specific answers to the grave problems of the French economy," Sapin told French television. Like other critics of Sarkozy's performance, Sapin noted the nearly $15 billion in tax cuts already passed by the President has further bloated France's staggering public debt without finding new revenues to offset the cost. Meanwhile...
...Morocco, the PJD seeks to emulate the Turkish rather than the Algerian model. If King Mohammed VI allows the PJD's evolution to continue - the party is currently the main opposition to a ruling coalition largely composed of nationalist and socialist parties - this may be good for Morocco and establish a pattern for other Arab countries to follow...
...time, the fires became a serious political issue. George Papandreou, leader of the opposition Socialist PASOK party, slammed the government's response as "totally incompetent." Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis - who has declared a state of emergency - fingered arsonists for setting the country ablaze, and several suspects have already been charged. Even if the fires relent before national elections in mid-September, anger over the scale of devastation will likely keep smoldering...