The result of the discussion is expected backUnless the Parliament is the double speedBaudouin Prot is much to this distinctionOn the year the firm IDC anticipates a decline of 1Polls are fleeting grudges are tenacious4 billion of dollars of aid promised in 2007Such a level of excellence is not improvisedI thedo so with conviction and enthusiasmHe had that Boeing buys 5 of the EADS sharesthe rise of this debate in the United StatesNicolas Sarkozy has been instructed to simplify to the maximum the Protocol, the symbolism of Versailles is cumbersome enough in itself. However, he wished to make his speech today before Parliament in Congress a historical event, is obvious and even a goal. If the head of State has decided to speak for the first time to the national representation, pushing thereby the French institutional tradition (see below), is not only to regain control on an unruly Parliament: he intends to take advantage of the puff of air policy given by the European elections to regain a share of the momentum of the presidential election. "The elections have created the conditions for a second State of grace", assured yesterday Jean-Pierre Raffarin, in "Le Parisien".
Everything is done to mark the time. The President of the Republic has grown with care the autour secret his speech, reworked it (from a text of his Special Adviser Henri Guaino and notes of his cabinet) in the evening yesterday, any reference to other rhetoric is excluded, as the policy speech that pronounced in France the Prime Minister early in the legislature. "It will make cases", "delivering a vision", "shake the lines", "charting new horizons", say his advisers.
Strike hard
Fixed ambition is high, Nicolas Sarkozy wants to strike hard. The France is still head-on the economic crisis, the head of State does not want to hide it, as stated by Henri Guaino. But the political moral sufficiently bolstered by European to try to blow a wind of confidence on the country, and "draw the post-crisis France", in the words in the Elysee Palace. No change of course: anything that can evoke the "turns" initiated by his predecessors at the time of their mandate is banned. Nicolas Sarkozy wants to "open new building", "accelerate reforms in the right line of the presidential campaign", short give new impetus to the quinquennium, convinced that the French were before any validated June 7 its ability to lift the taboos and to carry out the modernization of the country drum beating.
Wasteful year
Even if it defends itself want to present a catalogue of measures, it should multiply announcements about societal issues (youth and education, "life after 60 years", secularism...), environmental ("green growth"), employment, or "the stimulus of economic initiatives" (according to Jean-Pierre Raffarin). After a wasteful year banking and economic crises require and should address head-on the issue of public finances, referring to measures to restore the afloat France to address the recovery position of strength. It is certainly not a chance: the Government reported yesterday the amount of the deficit would reach 7 of GDP this year, or two times more than last year (see page 3). Hence including the reform of territorial communities and the opening of the site on retirement that the Elysee Palace in terms of the savings that they will realize.
Nicolas Sarkozy has been one of the first heads of State to announce, on 25 September in Toulon, that an "unprecedented" financial crisis would fall; It now aims to be again initiator giving "of the meaning of the post-crisis. And it was thereafter, within days (probably Wednesday), that shape Government team likely to play this new partition.
