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Nicolas Sarkozy’s Conservative Revolution: The Price for France

Nicolas Sarkozy’s Conservative Revolution: The Price for France

Fujimoto Kazuisa

I Nothing Novel About Sarkozy’s ‘New France’

The French mass media call President Nicolas Sarkozy’s political style “new.” It is true that he won the presidential election under the slogan of “severing ties” with the past, “advancing innovation” and “taking action” toward the creation of “a new France.” But actually, one look into the contents of Sarkozy’s professed reform tells us that it is no more than “conservative revolution” that combines new liberalism and new conservatism. The truth is that there is nothing new about it.

Let us look at major “reform” bills that the Sarkozy-led ruling party Union for a Popular Movement is trying to railroad with a majority of 323 seats in the 577-seat national assembly. Tax deduction for overtime work, and reduction of income, inheritance and gift taxes are pump-primin

Who Is Sarkozy?

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Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s new president, addressed the US Congress on November 7, with his divorce behind him and with the satisfaction of two recent and considerable political accomplishments. The first was his success, in mid-October, in dealing with the first concerted challenge to his presidency—strikes by transport and other unions, accompanied by mass public demonstrations. The second was the European Union’s adoption, at its meeting in Lisbon the same day, of the shortened and simplified union treaty Sarkozy has promoted since becoming president. At an earlier EU meeting in June he had produced the compromise that appeased Poland and let the draft treaty go forward, to replace the elaborate constitutional treaty rejected two years ago by referendums in France and the Netherlands.

His divorce, announced the same day the strikes took place, was not one he wanted, and was of political significance because Cécilia, his companion and wife of the last nineteen years, was closer to him than anyone else, accompanying his ascent from ma

Nicolas Sarkozy's selective memory

In the new volume of his memoirs, the former French president takes jabs at his contemporaries, including the likes of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel, calls for finding a compromise with Russia and endorses a possible successor for a presidential election four years away.

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Storytelling went hand in hand with his political career. Nicolas Sarkozy has applied the same technique to the three volumes of his memoirs, which have been accompanied by polished, scripted releases. After Passions (2019), and Le Temps des Tempêtes ("The Time of Storms", 2020), both bestsellers, the former French president – who has always been obsessed with sales and audience figures – hopes to repeat the feat with this latest volume, Le Temps des Combats ("The Time of Battles"), covering the years 2009-2011, the heart of his presidential term (2007-2012).

For this latest book, he has left his long-time publishing house, L'Observatoire, for Fayard, owned by his friend Arnaud Lagardère and soon to be controlled by another of his

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