Frnacois Hollande - The "normal" guy

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The bling bling King Sarko, neo-Napoleonic Liberator of Libya former president Nicolas Sarkozy, has been reduced to a minor historical footnote - with his popstar Italian belle wife Carla Bruni already plotting her next career move. King Sarko is the 11th European leader to fall over the double-dip European recession. "Merkozy" - King Sarko and German chancellor Angela Merkel, the mongrel couple running Europe, is dead.
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During his campaign, Hollande went no holds barred to identify who the "enemy" is; it's "the world of finance". No wonder Wall Street and the City of London saw - and will continue to see - Hollande as more dangerous than Vladimir Lenin. So the battlefield is drawn; Hollande versus neo-liberalism and "the markets", Hollande as Don Quixote versus the iron troika of the ECB, the IMF and the European Commission (EC).
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Hollande wants to change France's retirement age from 62 back to 60. He wants to hire at least 60,000 new teachers. He wants to reduce electricity prices for low-income people. The only way to finance all this would be his (promised) 75% tax rate on anyone earning over 1 million euros (US$1.3 million) a year, plus a tax on financial transactions. No wonder la grande bourgeoisie in France is tearing their Diors in despair.
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