A good Frenchman | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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has always been consistently pro-European, and aware of the necessity for France to behave as a decent European in order to have the credibility to lead. It's one of the things I like about Bayrou's run - at least there is a clear pro-European voice.

Note though that current French commissioner Jacques Barrot has totally sold out to the neolibs on transportation and macroeconomic policies.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sat Mar 10th, 2007 at 11:33:55 AM EST
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Re: the UDF (none / 1)

Note though that current French commissioner Jacques Barrot has totally sold out to the neolibs on transportation and macroeconomic policies.

Given that Barrot is a member of the UMP, I don't know why you say "though". It just makes the difference between the UMP and the UDF all the more stark.

Bayrou did say that France had not been playing its proper rôle in Europe "for decades", maybe because they had stopped believing in it or something.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 10th, 2007 at 11:41:10 AM EST
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Barrot is historically UDF, not Gaulliste. He went over to the UMP in 2002 along with Douste-Blazy.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sat Mar 10th, 2007 at 11:55:40 AM EST
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Thanks.

"It's the statue, man, The Statue."

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Mar 10th, 2007 at 11:56:50 AM EST
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