Posts Tagged ‘ France ’

You better not die in this town in France The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them. In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents...
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The Adam Smith Institute–a little free market think-tank here in London–has a wonderful blog post* on the road ahead for the Sarkozy government in reducing France’s bloated bureaucracy and the reliance of its people on the government. Read it. An excerpt: plans include measures to reduce the Civil Service workforce – currently 5.2m...
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The results are in, and as predicted Sarkozy has won the election in France. Reuter reports: Although opinion polls regularly suggested voters preferred Royal, who was seeking to become France’s first woman head of state, they saw the uncompromising Sarkozy as a more competent leader with a more convincing economic programme. Royal started...
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A first note: the vastest majority of polls in France are calling out that Sarkozy will be the winner in France today (the results are to be announced at 8 pm in France, which means in about an hour and a half here). So, suppose for a moment that you are a shrill, 53...
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First, I must say, my little-democratic heart with rapture thrills at the thought that right now millions of people are exercising their right to vote. But what will the result of that right be and mean? This article from my beloved IHT is very well done but takes the standard view of most elite...
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News from the across the pond: center-right candidate Nicolas Sarkozy and socialist Ségolène Royal have advanced to the run-off in the French Presidential election. Sarkozy turned in with a fair 30% of the electorate, and Royal followed with 25 percent. This gives Sarkozy something of an advantage in the run-off (which will take place...
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