Just a month ago, the French public delivered a clear victory for the Socialist challenger François Hollande, in his Presidential runoff with Nicolas Sarkozy.
Enough French citizens believed that it was time for a change and Hollande now has five years to show France the change for which its citizens are longing. If he is able to pull it off, people will remember him more for being a great president than, rather than an accidental one.
The markets have steadied a bit after their loss of nerve on Monday. But you can't help feeling that it is a bit like a climber, sliding down a glacier to his inevitable doom, who breaks his fall for a while on a crumbling ledge that soon will give way.
While Hollande may be elected France's first Socialist president in 17 years, it was under another socialist, Francois Mitterand that the National Front first made headways in response to austerity measures in the 1980s.
Francois Hollande, candidate of the French Socialist Party, is still the frontrunner in the French presidential elections. But he is untested in government.
Mourners wept as they followed a hearse convoy containing the bodies of three children and a teacher shot down in an attack at a Jewish school in Toul...
In 2007, Sarkozy said he would be 'the president of the buying power'. He leaves the country with 10% of unemployment and a debt of 82,3% of GDP. He has not kept his promises, and it's not by throwing up a smokescreen that the French will forget his record.
One year on from the start of the revolution in Libya, Prime Minister David Cameron has promised that the UK would continue to support the country as ...
The PM showed leadership in exercising the veto. Labour dithered. Maybe that's the luxury of opposition. But it comes at the price of credibility. This is no time for a fence-sitting, flip-flopping foreign policy.
David Cameron has confirmed there will be "opportunities" in all countries for early troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. But, in an apparent swipe a...
Another week, another eurozone crisis! It feels as if this crisis is never ending, self perpetuating until an eventual Armageddon that will at the very best end with the break-up of the eurozone and at the very worst in World War III.
For me, it's clear. It doesn't matter how rich you are, the consequences of not being in Europe can be a devastating blow. Just ask Manchester City.
So Angela Merkel is set to table a new EU Treaty in Brussels on Friday. A new Treaty means a new kind of EU - one set to bind together the 17 eurozone members ever more tightly.
Nicolas Sarkozy called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "liar" in a private conversation with Barack Obama, according to an exchange overhe...
Silvio Berlusconi: the politician, property and media tycoon who allegedly brought 'bunga bunga' to Britain's shores, has also been one of Italy's lon...
As the globe reels from the uprisings around the world, and the rulers of each country affected are accused of corruption and pilfering the country's ...
European leaders have reached a three-pronged agreement to resolve the eurozone debt crisis, including a deal that will halve Greek debt. Banks we...
Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy couldn’t resist sharing a knowing smile when they were asked if they thought Silvio Berlusconi would come up with ...
Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian leader, has submitted a formal proposal to the United Nations for Palestinian statehood, a bid that is expected to fail...
The situation facing the eurozone isn't particularly easy to explain using metaphors. Potential images are everywhere, but none seems to fit. The r...
The leaders of the US, Britain, Germany and France have called on Syria's president to step down as international pressure mounts on the regime after ...
PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Financial officials from the Group of Seven industrialised nations will discuss how to coordinate action between their countries'...
