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France election: A vote for change

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France election: A vote for change


Political | 207045 hits | May 06 3:10 pm | Posted by: martin14
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France has voted for change. For only the second time during the Fifth Republic the people have voted to put a socialist in the Elysee Palace. The French left has not won in a quarter of a century.

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  1. by avatar martin14
    Sun May 06, 2012 10:15 pm
    Bahhh, mods change the title please.. damn the BBC.


    Anyway, this won't help the Euro at all. Hollande will try to go to the drunken spending routine,
    and the markets will kick his ass.

  2. by avatar andyt
    Sun May 06, 2012 10:28 pm
    "martin14" said
    Bahhh, mods change the title please.. damn the BBC.


    Anyway, this won't help the Euro at all. Hollande will try to go to the drunken spending routine,
    and the markets will kick his ass.


    Funny, the article said he exact opposite.

    But, maybe this will drive Germany out of the EU - who wants to keep funding other people's parties. Maybe the collapse of the EU would be a good thing - it seemed to way over reach from the original premise.

  3. by avatar Brenda
    Sun May 06, 2012 11:24 pm
    The truth is that if France is to bring its budget deficit down to 3% by 2013 then 18bn euros of cuts will have to be found next year. How that will be done did not receive much attention during the campaign.
    Which is what Brussels wants.
    He will be out to reclaim French influence over the future direction of the EU.
    Thanks, but no thanks.
    Part of Mr Hollande's appeal was that he promised to defend the French social model and save what is called "French exceptionalism".

    "we want the good things of the EU, but the rest can keep the bad parts". Yeah...

    Face it France. You too, are part of the EU and the Euro-zone. And that has turned out to have let every country lose a big part of their sovereignty. You can not change that, unless you change the whole idea of the EU. Tear it down, for instance.
    The EU sucks, with Brussels only wanting to take care of themselves.

  4. by avatar EyeBrock
    Mon May 07, 2012 12:01 am
    Europe, sinking slowly into irrevelance.

  5. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Mon May 07, 2012 12:07 am
    Without the EU Brussels will only be relevant for seekers of good chocolate and beer....again

  6. by avatar Brenda
    Mon May 07, 2012 12:17 am
    "ShepherdsDog" said
    Without the EU Brussels will only be relevant for seekers of good chocolate and beer....again

    Which is the only thing it is good for anyways.
    And Strasbourg can go back to being a University-city. Don't forget they move back and forth between Brussels and Strasbourg every month... Any idea what that costs?

    Sales tax in The Netherlands has been going up from 17.5% to 19% and will go to 20% ONLY to pay for the EU.

  7. by avatar EyeBrock
    Mon May 07, 2012 12:26 am
    They should have stuck to it being a trading block. The EU as a government makes the Senate under Caligula look useful.

  8. by avatar Brenda
    Mon May 07, 2012 12:27 am
    I totally agree with you.

    Oh, I was wrong. Sales tax will be going to 21% as of October 1, 2012

  9. by Thanos
    Mon May 07, 2012 2:58 am
    Probably less of an embrace of socialism as much as it is a rejection of the austerity being pushed by Brussels and Berlin.

  10. by avatar xerxes
    Mon May 07, 2012 4:04 am
    And Athens too. Parliamentary elections in Greece turfed the ruling party in another rejection of austerity.

  11. by avatar Brenda
    Mon May 07, 2012 4:25 am
    The new government of Greece will have to do some serious digging for money tho. Europe has had it with bailing them lazy ungrateful bastards out, taking everyone down with them.
    Then, they have Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal waiting to follow. Who's going to pay for all that shit? Right. France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and that is about it. They can carry the whole EU, including the poor Eastern European countries, until they can't anymore. And the moment that they cannot carry that weight anymore, is near...

  12. by avatar andyt
    Mon May 07, 2012 4:26 am
    Geez, Brenda. If you can't even be bothered to spell though properly, why should anybody take you seriously?

  13. by avatar Brenda
    Mon May 07, 2012 4:50 am
    I wasn't aware anyone did anyway :P

  14. by avatar EyeBrock
    Mon May 07, 2012 4:54 am
    "Brenda" said
    The new government of Greece will have to do some serious digging for money tho. Europe has had it with bailing them lazy ungrateful bastards out, taking everyone down with them.
    Then, they have Italy, Spain, Ireland and Portugal waiting to follow. Who's going to pay for all that shit? Right. France, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and that is about it. They can carry the whole EU, including the poor Eastern European countries, until they can't anymore. And the moment that they cannot carry that weight anymore, is near...


    I think even the EU governments are sussing this out. Nobody has the gonads to say it out loud in Europe but every EU citizen knows the EU is living on borrowed time as it stands now.



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