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April 23, 2012

Is Hollande Enemy or Prisoner of Finance?

Robert Peston, BBC News

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Although Francois Hollande began his campaign to be president of France by declaring that his true enemy is "the world of finance", the socialist victor in the first-round of voting is also - to an extent - a prisoner of that world.

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