It may be true that Nicolas Sarkozy is one of those politicians who is better at running for office than running a government. The thumping defeat of his centre-right forces in France's weekend regional elections was in part a personal rebuke by voters for a president whose Reginald Perrin-like rise over the past 20 years has seemed to many to be as inexorable as it was undesirable. But as leaders across Europe may do well to note, it's not all Sarko's fault.
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