13-Dec-11 World View -- Britain's 'veto' of eurozone plan

[John]

13-Dec-11 World View -- Britain's 'veto' of eurozone plan causes angry recriminations


France's former PM Dominique de Villepin to run for president


** 13-Dec-11 World View -- Britain's 'veto' of eurozone plan causes angry recriminations
** http://www.generationaldynamics.com/cgi ... 13#e111213



Contents:
Britain's 'veto' of eurozone plan causes angry recriminations
Sarkozy downplays threat that France will lose AAA credit rating
France's former PM Dominique de Villepin to run for president
Russia's Circassian issues intensify as 2014 Sochi Olympics approach
S. Korea will light three giant Christmas trees, despite N. Korean threat


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Britain, David Cameron, Nick Clegg,
Moody's Investors Service, France, Standard & Poors,
Nicolas Sarkozy, Germany, Dominique de Villepin,
Colin Powell, Russia, Circassians, Sochi, Olympics,
South Korea, North Korea

[Trevor]

The news just keeps getting better. I don't think the Eurozone is going to last much longer, especially since the old fault lines are opening up again.

[JULLIEN1]

In a surprise, former French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced that he would be running for President of France in April.

In fact it was widely expected in France : he was one of the "presidentiables" (able to become President of the Republic) before the student demonstrations of the spring 2006 and the Clearstream affair (a tenebrous mystery involving both Sarkozy and Villepin still unclear today), often described himself as a possible saviour after a "petainist" presidency (Sarkozy is according to French political standards a die-hard pro-business conservative and critiziced for outrageous [at least according to his opponents] xenophobic speeches) and launched his own political party in December 2010 ( Republique solidaire, "A Republic of solidarity"). But with 1 to 3% of the vote as predicted by the polls, his chances to succeed are slim...
The four main contenders are the incumbent Sarkozy, the socialist François Hollande the centrist Français Bayrou (as in 2007) and Marine Le Pen (far right but with an economical program as or more statist than the "socialist" program )