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...alone. With an estimated 150,000 Greeks, about 12% of the country's electorate, undecided ahead of Sunday's parliamentary elections and with a legal ban on opinion polling in the last fortnight of the campaign, ruling conservatives and rival socialists appear to be locked in one of the toughest election standoffs in recent history. A flurry of opinion polls published before the blackout showed the conservative New Democracy party had a slight lead against PASOK, the socialist party that incumbent Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis toppled in 2004, ending more than two decades of almost uninterrupted socialist rule. What...
...after De Gaulle's return to power, and ahead of all other French Presidents. Sarkozy even seemed to break with the past - quite a feat for someone from the same political family as outgoing President Jacques Chirac. Thanks to his policy of "opening" to rival forces, Sarkozy has attracted Socialist stars to his team, forging a cooperation that is uncommon in France...
...wants to give greater freedom to markets, but his actions show he's no economic liberal at heart. The merger of Gaz de France and Suez is the perfect example of an interventionist state influencing companies and the market. Politically, Sarkozy has shown true genius in undermining the Socialist Party by attracting some of its leading lights to his team. But is mere political calculation also behind his backing of Socialist Dominique Strauss-Kahn to head the International Monetary Fund? Sarkozy's motives are often open to question - and differ from his stated objective...
...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...
...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...