French politics is haunted by the ghost of Mitterand | Christine Ockrent

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French politics is haunted by the ghost of Mitterand | Christine Ockrent

With a credit downgrade and an election looming, France’s presidential candidates have found similar inspirationIt was Nicolas Sarkozy himself who, last summer, started turning the AAA credit rating, a rather technical notion until then, into a major political issue. And so last week, after France was officially downgraded by the credit rating agency Standard and Poor’s, the president slipped two points in the polls.

published date:Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:39:17 GMT
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