The French Elections

with Jim Hoagland, Hugh Carnegy , Adam Gopnik and Justin Vaisse
in Current Affairs
on Monday, May 7, 2012 * * * * *

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A discussion about the French Elections with Adam Gopnik of The New Yorker, Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post, Justin Vaisse of The Brookings Institution & Hugh Carnegy, Executive Editor at The Financial Times

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France
Europe
European politics
Sarkozy
socialist
elections
François Hollande

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    1. finalfantasytown  05/18/2012 08:58 PM Report

      Athena's loneliness is from the deep thinking on who the Hestia is, or who can understand and manage the energy perfectly to become renewable, just like a forest. Based on the crisis in Europe, the country functioning on managing economy is not God-made one. Thus, let's go back to the beginning when Gods created human. Why is Hestia the Goddess of domestication? How to identify the character of Hestia based on human religion and culture? Do we need strong belief on Gods when identifying Hestia and figuring out the way waking up her?

    2. finalfantasytown  05/10/2012 10:56 PM Report

      During that time when Zeus and Poseidon had found Thetis' hand, they wanted to combine and translate experiences from human being into their physical world for eternity.

    3. finalfantasytown  05/10/2012 10:47 PM Report

      Thetis' hand can combine long-term memories from various individuals. Thetis' ability to undo/grieve long-term memory of individuals in Acheron River by divine music language.

    4. finalfantasytown  05/10/2012 09:22 AM Report

      Build bundle of wills, the focus of Zeus on Trojan War. Whether Uranus, Cronus, or Zeus, they keep evolve for final fantasy by growing more wills and bundling wills like building muscles in the body. Before Trojan War, Zeus learned prophecy for evolution. Army is the best form to test how various wills of men work together. For making Athena more beautiful, Zeus studied Agamemnon's army through Helen. Why Helen? Why not one of kings in the Union of Agamemnon's army? He doesn't want himself out of control at the crucial point in the war. I am very interested in the hand of Thetis, for which Zeus and Poseidon became rivals. Obviously, Zeus and Poseidon want further evolution among Gods by obtaining the available hand of Thetis. But in terms of system stability through thousands of years, or considering genome stability from Hera, Zeus and Poseidon gave up their desire, back to original track, and continued designing human being. Who is the character of Thetis although I don't care? The Trojan War this time in the 21st century is absolutely much greater than the last one in the 20th century, and much closer to the mythology, which also means human being find the shortest way to Gods or out of maze. All countries hiding and supporting Chinese will be remembered in the memory of history. Through this war, we will live for thousands and thousands of years.

    5. finalfantasytown  05/09/2012 03:58 AM Report

      When population grows madly, Themis in Hades will send prophecy to Zeus for evolution. During approaching final fantasy, how to make one of human being's mythology, which narrates the judgement of the spirits from very ancient time such as dragon and creatures of aphrodite? Continue to make golden apple of fairness/balance aroused by very ancient memory for next generation, or extinction, or temporarily contain the spirit in something? The bridge toward Trojan War is waiting for the judgement of Paris, who was an idle romantic man.

    6. Saultxyca  05/08/2012 09:23 PM Report

      Does anyone actually think that those two formidable, beautiful women — Ségolène Royal and Valérie Trierweiler — would choose to be with a "marshmallow man"? Highly unlikely. As for Petit Nicolas and Carla-Antoinette, the French got weary of gasping and cringing.

    7. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/08/2012 09:16 PM Report

      'First Socialist President in 17 years, tax on the rich, must revive faltering economy. Cameron, Merkel and Obama weighed in with Sarkozy.'

      Sounds really juicy.

    8. jacquicochran  05/08/2012 09:14 PM Report

      Please interview on Mali.

      I seek further understanding of comments made during May 7 interview that president-elect Hollande expressed concern during election campaign for the situation in Mali. It was also said that "he was ahead (of other governments) realizing this is a serious problem."

    9. SharkswithfrikingLazers  05/08/2012 08:56 PM Report

      The Daily Show/Jon Stewart on elections in France and Greece and the fact that Merkel and Germany have all the EU power (at the five minute mark):

      http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-may-7-2012/international-house-of-pander-cakes---greece---franc e-vote

      Charlie, as you know, it is the economy not the size of our military my friend.

    10. REMant  05/08/2012 12:00 PM Report

      One observer wrote a few weeks ago: "Sarkozy's extravagant tastes soon earned him the nickname President Bling-Bling. Moreover, his bluster, temper tantrums and vulgar remarks have often been caught on camera, as was his very public romantic fling in Egypt with pop music star and former top model Carla Bruni - just when he was divorcing his second wife. (He and Bruni later married.) While the French grant their politicians considerable privacy, they expect that private conduct will remain behind closed doors. Sarkozy's performance of his public duties made matters worse. He has alienated many by being omnipresent, erratic and impetuous. He has gone on television to announce an initiative (at times without consulting even the government), only to abandon it soon thereafter. He intervened in ways that appeared partisan and inappropriate for a president - as, for example, when he tried (and failed) to engineer his son's appointment to direct a para-public agency. Sarkozy's presidency has also been marked by several cases of financial corruption in which he and his advisers have been implicated. During the 2007 election campaign, he proposed sponsoring reforms enabling the French to work more in order to earn more income. The result: France's unemployment rate of nearly 10 per cent is the highest of all large industrialised economies, while economic growth is miniscule and wages and salaries have stagnated. Sarkozy's standing has been further damaged by his class-biased economic policies. For example, he lowered income taxes on the affluent while cutting social benefits and increasing the retirement age for most French."

      But it doesn't appear his militarism was an issue. In simple language, Sarkozy went the way of Berlusconi.

      No less than eleven chief executives have been replaced in the Eurozone since 2009. The past few years have also seen increasing polarization in its politics, not only recently in France and Greece, but also the Netherlands. But first of all, Hollande is not going to be able to renegotiate the "austerity" treaties - the "Stability Pact" and the "Fiscal Compact." Secondly, the ECB is going to contest greater monetary easing. If, as he promised, Hollande plans to hire 60,000 new teachers, 90,000 teacher-mentors, 5,000 judges, police officers and gendarmes, build 500,000 homes a year, reduce the share of nuclear power generation from 75% to 50% by investing in renewable energy sources, raise the minimum wage, raise taxes to 75% on incomes exceeding one million euros annually along with increased taxes on corporations and banks, and, balance the budget by 2017, I suspect he'll have to start making labor mkt reforms too, and I'm sure Merkel will tell him that. But, I don't think she'll need to.

      Personally, I've been hoping, ever since her husband left Sarkozy's cabinet in protest, to see Beatrice Schoenberg, also of Hungarian extraction, return to my TV screen.