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May 8, 2012

France Takes the Easy Way Out

Timothy Smith, Globe and Mail

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By electing a president who asks nothing of them, the people of France have again absolved themselves of responsibility for a broken social model, this time with global implications.

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TAGGED: France, Nicolas Sarkozy, Eurozone, Francois Hollande

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