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In all likelihood, we already know the names of the two top candidates who will make it to the second round of France's presidential election: Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande. And if the polls are right, Hollande will be France's next president, the first Socialist since Mitterrand was re-elected back in 1988. But there is still time for voters to change their minds and unanticipated events to take place. So is it a done deal or an open race?

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By FRANCE 24

On the set:

Jean-Philippe THIELLAY, Vice-president, Terra Nova;
Benjamin HADDAD, National secretary, UMP.

Marc Perelman

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year's end new veiw

by Anonyme - 02/05/2012 - 23:35

If France gave an amount of one percent of its GDP as rebate money to the citizens of France, through sales and various other taxes in theory, the government would re-acquire most or all of this money #*!. And furthermore, France and other EU countries could commence giving money away, so as to promote national re-acquirement through taxes And here is the pitch, present the present national deficit owing as separate and standing with beside this new French Citizens rebate deficit-owing; your present fiscal deficit and the new and popular “peoples rebate deficit-increase”
This calculation will increase your national deficit by 15-25 billion Euros, but it would also significantly increase revenue by the year’s end! This free money will come home and will provide massive stress reduction nationally and through-out the EU. It does not deal with your present financial crisis, but it will happily dissipate it into the collective whole.