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Franco-German continuity, but differences on the table. Next weeks crucial for June EU Summit

Written by ACM
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
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*Berlin/15-16 May 2012- German Chancellor Angie Merkel and new French President Francois Hollande declared a Strategic will for "Continuity" in  EU-crucial Franco-German close relations, but didn't hide also current "Differences" in certain concrete, topical issues, from Economy up to Afghanistan, etc., for which the "Next Weeks" will be Crucial, because "each side, (France and Germany) will put at the Negociation Table its Proposals", in view of EU decisions on Growth, etc. in the forthcoming Brussels EU Summit in June, including on the Debt provoked in Greece currently seeking to form a New Government, and various other topical issues, perhaps in a way which, according Hollande, might be more "balanced" vis a vis other EU Member Countries and EU Institutions, as he added (see infra).
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Exceptional Weather events faced by Hollande, don't block the Franco-German summit...
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- "We are particularly glad that Mr. Hollande came to visit us (in Germany) ... even despite a ThunderStorm which stroke his Airplane ! Perhaps, it's a good omen for our cooperation", observed from the outset chancellor Angie Merkel, trigering widespread Smiles for that unprecedented incident which reportedly obliged the new French President to urgently return back to Paris and change Plane, arriving in Berlin with a Delay of more than 1,5 Hour... 

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But Hollande, notoriously had, already previously to face an exceptionaly adverse Weather also inside Paris, where he was reportedly obliged even to "change clothes 2 or 3 times in a row", after standing against a heavy Rain in a Convertible Car and afterwards in an Open-Air event, finding Rain again, later the same day in Berlin, before spending there with Merkel an apparently more calm evening, (at least from the Natural Weather point of view)..

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    Hollande, who had already made it known earlier that he would come to Berlin without any future Minister, but only with one Counsellor, in order to keep entirely free and personal his 1st meeting with Merkel, nevertheless, suprised twice by searching and sorting out of his Coat's and Pants' pockets 2 different sets of long Notes, (a Yellow and a White one  successively), that he carefully placed in front of him, before he started to speak...

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    If rumours that among his main Ministers (f.ex. on Foreign Affairs, etc) would be Fabius and Moscovici, both Experienced Politicians who have held important positions in the Past as former Prime Minister/President of National Assembly and fomer EU Minister/EU Parliament's vice President, respectively, (Comp. their earlier Statements to "EuroFora"s co-Founder in the Past), are confirmed, then, it's obvious that the appointment of Ayrault, a former Professor of German language, as new Prime Minister (as German Press already noted), might not be enough in order to equilibrate Fabius' notorious involvement in the "No" movement against EU Constitution, back in the 2005 EuroReferendum, nor  Moscovoci's strong Criticism against the "Fiscal pact", (and particularly against the "Golden Rule" with the obligation to work towards a Balanced Budget in the Future, that he stressed that it "must be abolished") in statements made earlier in Strasbourg. So that Hollande himself might have to add his Personal authority as President in order to avoid eventual misunderstandings...

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Crucial Discussion on various Proposals during Next Weeks
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    - "Each side, France and Germany, will put at the Table its proposals", in order to "prepare intensively the (EU) June Summit" in Brussels, Merkel anounced from the outset, warning that "we have an  Intensified Agenda on EU issues", into which "we entered Quickly" .


    - "We discussed and agreed that that we'll prepare closely the forthcoming ( EU) Summits (i.e. "an informal Diner on 23 May", and the "late June Council") with our collaborators, and that, Each Side, the German and the French, will put at the Table their Proposals for the Agenda of the June (EU) Council", Merkel anounced  - "It will certainly be very Important that Germany and France present Jointly to this (EU) Council in June their ideas", she stressed, pointing a the classical Franco-German "joint" method of stimulating EU's way forward.


    - Hollande also acknowledged that "the Method which seems better to us, is to put all at the Table" (of Negociations), but he went on to add that  he would like for this to be done "on the occasion of the Informal (EU) Summit of May 23", i.e. apparently collectively, in front of all the 27 EU Member States, (for which he "thank(ed)" Merkel to accept his proposal to "postpone" it until the middle of EU Parliament's Plenary Session, next week in Strasbourg, "in order to allow me to be able to prepare it better", as he noted).


    Already changing methods, Hollande had earlier met, in Paris, with the Heads of collective EU bodies, such as the Presidents of EU Council and Commission, van Rompuy and Barroso, even before taking over oficially his new job, and this was also reflected in his statements at Berlin :


     - "We (France and Germany) have strong links and an important Responsibility", paticularly because of "our contribution in the construction of Europe". But "the Meaning that I give to the word "Friendship" between our 2 Countries", implies "a Balanced relation, which respects our Political Sensitivities, (i.e. ChristianDemocrats and Socialists), and also our European Partners and the (EU) Community Institutions" (such as EU Council, Commission and Parlement, stressed  Hollande from the outset. *- "We (certainly) want to work together for Europe's General Interest, but also by stimulating all other EU Member Countries' too,  he added.
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>>> On EU/€urozone Economy :
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    - "As it's well known, on March (2012) we had signed the Fiscal Pact" (included in the New €uroArea Treaty), for which Negociations had been Completed Earlier, (See "EuroFora"s NewsReports from Paris on 16/8/2011, and Brussels' EU Summits of December 2011 and January 2012), reminded Merkel from the outset.


    => "Now, this work of the January and March (EU) Councils is Culminating in the June (2012) Council, above all, concerning the issue of Growth", (as it had been already scheduled since December 2011 and January 2012), the German Chancellor observed.


    + Replying to Press Questions on whether she might be "afraid" of "Differences" considered to "Separate" the Socialist and ChristianDemocrat Franco-German leaders, particularly on Hollande's pre-Electoral promisses to "augment the number of Civil Servants, to slam the Pensions' Reform (recently made by the out-going French President Sarkozy, who prolonged the Time for 2 more Years after the age of 60, except in Hard/Dangerous Jobs, in order to ensure the Amount of Money needed for each pensioner and for the whole system even in a period of Global Economis Crisis and longer Lifespan), and, more generally, on "Increased Spending in France", Merkel appeared adamant :


    - "It's not my habit to be"afraid", at any case, since that's not a good guide in Politics", the German chancellor laughed back. + "Moreover, each Country has an Autonomy of Decision, and, as such, this is not an issue for me". Merkel pointed out.


    + Because, "at 1st, we agreed that there is an Obligation to Work Together", she reminded, as a matter of General Principle on Franco-German relations affecting all Europe. "2nd, we now talked for about 60 Minutes : There were Similar, and may be Differend approaches for the Perspectives, but that can also be interesting". "3rd, I don't know if, perhaps, sometimes, more Divergences appear in Public, than there Really is", Merkel downplayed the issue.


    => F.ex., "as I've always said : On one side, stands the Fiscal Pact", as she called the New €uroArea Treaty, (proposed by France and Germany on August 2011 : See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from Elysée Palace on 16/8/2011, discussed, decided and signed by EU Brussels' Summits on December 2011, January and March 2012 : See "EuroFora"s NewsReports from Brussels' EU Summits of 12/2011 and 1/2012).


    + "And, on the other hand, we have already started to work in January and March (2012 EU Summits) on the issue of Growth, as well as before that, so that, now, we have to work in this direction also on June'"s EU forthcoming Summit, "and this is not the problem", Merkel reminded the overal context.


    >>> Now, "the Question is : - "Who has which (concrete) Ideas ?". Because "Growth" is, indeed, a Generic term. But Growth has to come from the People. Therefore, I'm delighted that we have Agreed that we Shall Discuss between us Differend Ideas on how Growth can be created, and I don't think that we might not have any similar approach. May be some Differences of Views could exist, here or there, but that's all, and I look forward to work further together", the German Chancellor replied with realistic optimism, at least for the basics.

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    Questioned by the Press on his earlier anounced intentions about the "Fiscal Pact" in the "EuroArea Treaty", and particularly if he wanted  to "ratify the Fiscal Pact as it is, or, if, on the contrary, he wanted to Change its Content", Hollande simply confirmed the Reply that he had given to "EuroFora"s question, back on March in Strasbourg (See relevant "EuroFora"s 3/2012 NewsReport, with our Questions and Hollande's Replies, on this and other topical issues) :


    - "I want to ReNegociate what had been established at another moment, in order to integrate inside it a Dimension of Growth".


    + But, "the Method on which we agreed (with Merkel) is to put all Ideas, all proposals on the (Negociation) Table, and to see, afterwards, how they can be Leggaly transposed, in order to be implemented. So, it's only at the end of this work that I could reply to your question", he added, apparently opening a window for some "softer" versions of his stance, from the way that it was initially interpreted by most People and Media...


    => - "Everything must be put at the (Negociations') Table, from all sides, everything which can contribute to Growth : (I.e.) Both the Competitivity's ameliorations, and the Investments for the Future (on High-Tech Research/Development, already started by Sarkozy-Merkel earlier), and the mobilization of Funds, and EuroBonds (that Merkel and Sarkozy had refused until now) : In Brief , All that must be put at the Table", added Hollande, apparently pointing at a somewhat variant, new, collective EU method at the concluding stage.
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    - However, as Merkel's Spokesman, Seibert, revealed to Journalists in Berlin the next Morning, "discussions, even after the Press Conference", during Diner,  didn't go beyond "Project-Loans", while, on the contrary, "EuroBonds did not come to the Table", and weren't discussed at all.


    + Moeover, the German Government's basic view on Growth, which was also discussed and decided by the two last EU Summits (January and March 2012), is that Growh can be produced by "Structural Reforms" , Investment in Science and Research, (as he said after just presenting Germany's Annual Report on RST, which advances further an Augmentation of Funds for RST, which rose, between 2005 and 2010 from 2,51 to 2,82 % of GDP, i.e. "the strongest rise among all EU Countries", as he said.


    + Nevertheless, "Discussions with our (EU) Partners" will take place in view of the June 2012 EU Summit, Seibert added carefully, (i.e. apparently not excluding a compromise)
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    + However, later-on, replying to another question, Hollande added that, in his view, "on Growth, it's true that the Word was already writtenin the Fiscal Pact, but it wasn't really explicit. I'm glad that the French Presidential Election's campaign allowed  - the situation in Europe helping also - to put the issue of Growth at the Heart of our Debates", as he said, referring to his own, as well as Sarkozy's relevant declarations, (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from his speech at Concorde square for "a New Model of Growth"), but apparently skipping the January and March 2012 EU Summits' referernces to Growth and to the already agrreed Rendez-vous of the June Summit for that purpose, as Merkel just reminded (Comp. supra).


    => "I know that, behind the Word "Growth", there can be Differend appoaches", Hollande acknowledged. - "But I am in favour  of a more Productive Economy of the Offer, and for Supports to the Demand, (as he said, adding a point apparently incompatible with the German Government's strategy , and which might boost Foreign Imports, instead of EU exports), which can't, no more, be exerted by National States, given the Budgetary situations, taking into account the  Debts. So that Europe will have to undertake its responsibilities, and that's what we are going to Discuss together during the forthcoming Weeks", he revealed.


    - "We must create Growth, at a National level, and at a European level, even at the Global level, and we shall discuss that during the (forthcoming Summits of ) G8 and at the G20". ... "It's because I'm in favor of Budget consolidation, that I'm also in favour of Growth", since, "if there is no Growth, then, whatever might be our efforts, we'll never reach the Targets that we've fixed in terms of Debt reduction and in diminishing our Deficits".


    - Thus, "concerning the (Economic) situation of France, where (a Journalist of the new version of "Le Monde" Newspaper, recently controlled by 2 "Socialist" Millionaires) wished to remind the Heritage that I received today (i.e. at Hollande's official Inauguration, 1 Day before Sarkozy's term as President ends), i.e. almost a Zero-like Growth during  the 1st Trimester" of 2012, .... in order to take into account the effects of a(n eventual) Slow-down in Growth, .. the (French) Government .... will ask from the (National) Court of Accounts (notoriously headed by a fomer "Socialist" Expert), to make, very fast, a Report of evaluation of the 2012 (French National) Budget's execution", Hollande went on to say. In so doing, he obviously skipped  the well-known Fact that most Forecasts had already predicted earlier that, after Austerity Measures taken by most EU Countries recently, in order to absord the Debts provoked by some 30 Years of Deficits (1980-2911, i.e. almost since the former Socialist President Mitterand) and the 2009-2011 Global Crisis, (which necessitated a Succesful Economic Stimulus policy), a new kind of Growth, much more sustainable, i.e. generated by augmenting Exports, thanks to a stronger Competitivity, (based on Structural Reforms to cheapen Labour's cost and on Investment for High Tech Innovation), was due to start progressively during the 2nd Half of 2012, slowly but steadily Augmenting all the way through 2013, 2014, etc, both in France and most other €uroArea Countries..
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>>> On Greece :
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- "Of course we dealt with the issue of Greece, which was at the center of many discussions during these days : I want to confirm, as far as I'm concerned, and we quite agree on this point, tthat we want for Greece to remain inside the €uroArea", and "we also know that this is the wish of the Majority of People in Greece. The (EU/ECB/IMF) Troika has agreed, since long, with the Greek Authorities on a Memorandum, and we believe that this Memorandum must be kept", Merkel pointed out.


    + "However, as I also said, in Phone Calls with Greek Politician Samaras (the Leader of the Biggest Greek Party, that of "New Democracy", ChristianDemocrats/EPP), or even with the (take-care) Prime Minister Papademos, (former ECB vice-President, a "Socialist" Expert), : We intend to do whatever we can to Help Greece re-Structure (its Economy and mainly State sector), to help Growth, and to help Organizataion", because we agree with the EU that Greece is an €uroGroup Member State, and we want to strengthen that too", she concluded.


    => To put in a nutshell, "we have to respect the new Elections in Greece". But "we clearly say that we Hope that Greece can remain inside the €uroArea", i.e. "that the (Greek) People will also vote for the conditions in the Memorandum to be complied with". And, "second, we are Ready, whenever Greece might want,  to review  Opportunities for Additional Growth, if such a Wish is  expressed, and, if they contact us, we may also make such new Proposals to Greece", Merkel resumed.
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 - "I'm in favour for us to say to the Greecs that Europe is Ready to add Measures for Growth, for Aides to (Economic) Activities, in order to bring Growth back to Greece, instead of the present Recession. But, at the same time, the Commitments which have been undertaken must be kept", the new French President declared from the outset, expreshing the "wish that the Greecs will be able to confirm in these (June 17) Elections their attachment to €uroZone", as he said.
+ "My Responsibility is to send a Message, also, to the Greeks. I understand the sufferings that a part of the Greek People faces today, and its Doubts, Concerns for the Future. Greeks must know that we (EU) will come towards them, by Measures for Growth, by supporting (Economic) Activity, in order to make possible to ensure their presence inside EuroArea".... "I must sent a certain number of Messages, and these messages are those of Growth, of (Economic) Activity, of Support", he promissed.


- "The Greeks are invited to pronounce themselves on Political Parties, some of which are in favour of Greece staying inside €urozone, while others don't, and, therefore, I'll respect the vote of Greeks, whatever might happen", Hollande added, leaving, indirectly but inevitably, a kind of Threat to oust the EU Country from €uroZone if its People votes for parties that he considers opposed to €urozone, (despite the fact that most Greek Parties are in favor of €uro, except from the Communist Party, and, eventually, only partly, SYRIZA, while the real, objective opposal in Greece today runs accross those who are for efficient Measures to eradicate Corruption of the 1980-2010 period, or not, as a necessary condition in order to become able to absorb Debt and create healthy Growth).                                  
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    + Questioned by Journalists in Berlin, next day, Merkel's Spokesman, Seibert, said that Germany's position is that "Commitments must be kept" as far as Greece is concerned, independently of possible "Proposals" to "stimulate Growth" :


    - "We are Open to hear Proposals if there are additional possibilities to get Growth stimulation in Greece by supporting Greek efforts, perhaps also to make Proposals ourselves", and "this can also be a topic of future EU Discussions", he added, in view of the May 23 and June EU Council's RDV.


    - "However, the commitments flowing out of the Memorandum signed with Greece must be kept", he reiterated. "I dont' want to interfere into the Greek Electoral Campaign", but it's clear to all that these Commitments are not so much about Economies, as about Necessary Structural Reforms", he stressed. (Given, in particular, the well-known excessively staffed Public Sector controlled by the Greek State, compared to the country's GDP, specially since former "Socialist" Governments of the 1980ies, whose clientelism and nepotism notoriously provoked a growing Debt, scandalously Hidden back on 1999-2000 in order to ease Greece's Earlier than normal Entry to €uroZone, even before doing necessary Reforms, in exchange of Turkey's unopposed, but controversial and unpopular EU "Candidate" status. That Debt "explosed" during the 2009-2010 Global Crisis, worsened by the then PASOK Government's Clumsy Management and by the Global Speculation against €uro, triggering €uroZone's Financial Crisis).
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* Hopes that the Franco-German EU motor will work, despite Political differences :
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Both on these, and on any other issues, the German and French leaders naturally confirmed the need for the Franco-German EU "motor" to become anew functional, despite some initial politico-economic differences :


    - "We acknowledge the responsibility that we have, as Germany and France, for the satisfactory development of Europe. I believe that if we are sustained by this Spirit, then, we can also find solutions for individual issues", stressed from the outset Chancellor Angie Merkel.


    - "In fact, European Policy has become much more than the traditional Foreign Policy's diplomatic issues, exchanges of views and ways to deal with each other. We (EU) have become a much more inter-Connected Area : We have 1 Currency, and that means a lot more of Shared Responsibility. One of the Reasons for the creation of the €uro is that it makes European Integration Irreversible : €uro is not only a Monetary project. It's also a Political one. And €uro's Political project's Message to the World was to say that "We are Determined to follow the Path into the Future Together... In front of 7 Billions People in the World,  the 500 Millions of Europeans, w'ed better have as much in Common as possible, because we are committed to Common Values : Democracy, Freedom of Expression, of Religion, etc. These are our Values, that we want to live with", Angie Merkel stressed in addition. - "This is part of a big project, which is also expressed in a Common Currency, that many People have promised, after the 2nd World War, in those Countries which have a Common Currency, to Never wage War against each other" : Instead, they said, "we shall be Connected  Peacefully,  and we shall Find Common Solutions. In this sense, the introduction of the €uro and the (Global) Crisis that we have now succeeded to face together, have become also Domestic, Home issues", the German Chancellor explained, as a matter of Principles.


    => Thus, it works as "a very Honest Discussion, as it also happens usually inside a (Governemental) Cabinet, and this will normally be kept also in Domestic policy, precisely because it's very Hard to Find the necessary Solutions", Merkel warned.


    - "Now, it's well known that we belong to Different Political parties' Families, (ChristianDemocrats and Socialists), but that does not mean that we can't work together", she added. F.ex., "in Germany, for some Decades, even when there might not be a Great Coalition at the level of the Federal Governent, nevertheless, the Bundestag and the Bundesrat (the Parliament and the Senate), can have Differend Majorities, so that we are always committed to Consensus and Balance. And it's like this also throughout all Europe, between the various (Political) parties' families. It has now become a Long History in Europe, that we are in a situation which allows us to Find Good Solutions in each case", Merkel concluded with voluntary optimism.
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    + "Well beyond our Differences", and "without hiding anything from what might separate us sometimes", "I wanted to give a (symbolic ) Image of Trust in the work that we can engage in, an image of Cohesion in the Franco-German remation, of Continuity also in the History of our 2 Countries inside the EU", so that "we can convince the Europeans that France and Germany have the Will ... to work Together, for our 2 Countries, for the Franco-German relation, and for Europe as a whole", Hollande added in a transparent way.


    - "It's not the 1st time that the relations between France and Germany are led by Heads of State/Government who are not of the same Political feeling  : It already happened with Helmut Schmidt and Valery Giscard d'Estaing, François Mitterand and Helmut Kohl (Socialists and ChristianDemocrats), and afterwards Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroeder, (ChristianDemocrat and Socialist), he reminded in reply to Press questions, (ommitting however to add that in most if not all of those cases, the Franco-German Leaders normally used to prepare together and anounce jointly their common decisions, as even Chirac - Schroeder did). - "In fact, it's even Exceptionally that we had Heads of State/Government with the same Political feeling", claimed Hollande, (apparently underestimating the De Gaulle - Adenauer, Chirac-Kohl, Chirac - Merkel and Sarkozy - Merkel periods..)


    + Independently of this debate, "what I know is that we have a Common Duty     : Our Countries choose their Leaders, and we have to work Together to accomplish the (Political) Mandates that have been given to us, and, mainly in order to make Europe progress and respond to the big Challenges of the World. We'll meet anew, by the way, soon during  the G8 and NATO Summits, and we'll have to work together", he ensured.


    - But "this (1st, Merkel - Hollande) meeting wasn't due to settle all issues, but had, first of all, as a primordial aim to better know eachother, to establish a relationship, to determine a way to advance forward, to undertake a Method of Work in order to find Solutions Together. That's the meanig of our meeting tonight", Hollande concluded carefully.
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    + Replying Next Day to Press Questions about the Hollande - Merkel working Diner, her Spokesman, Seibert, indeed said that "yesterday it was a 1st acquaintance meeting", and "a good Start for a Future Work relationship. But it wasn't a meeting in which something had planned to be Decided. .. So that they did Not yet discuss all topics in Detail", since "the (new) French President had not even appointed still any Government yesterday. It was his 1st Day in office". That meeting served, above all, to approximate, for the 1st time, the Personality of each other and his way to work", and it offered also an opportunity for Collaborators from both sides to take a 1st Contact with one another, since they are due, from now on, to hold the most "Regular and Intensive" Contacts.


    - Thus, it's understandable that, during last Evening, it was first of all the Basic positions on the most Important topics related to both Countries (France and Germany) which were discussed" only. "Thus, f.ex., the topic of Greece was naturally discussed, but Not in the last Detail".


    Compared to similar meetings between f.ex. former leaders Chirac with Kohl, Schroeder and Merkel, as well as Sarkozy - Merkel, etc., that "EuroFora" had a chance to cover in the Past at various occasions, in Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, and/or elsewhere between 1997 - 2012, this 1st Hollande - Merkel meeting appears, indeed, somehow a litle "light", but we should also take into consideration the fact that Hollande, contrary to all other French and German previous leaders, is just Starting his EU/World political career.


    + Moreover, most of the "Small Differences or Nuances here and there, that they (Hollande and Merkel) anounced themselves, "always existed between Germany and France", even if "they never confessed that in such a way" in the Past, as both of them did now, Siebert tried to minimize. In fact, "there were much More things in Common, concerning European and Global Politics", he stressed.


    - "Now, our collaborators are due to work intensively  to put at the Table our Proposals and "Adjust" them among us, in order to bring them into the EU Discussion at the May 23 Informal (EU) Council", next week, "so that Resolutions can be decided on the way up to the EU Council at the end of June", he added, evoking the traditional Franco-German method (Comp. supra).


    => This naturally augments the crucial character of the forthcoming few Days/Weeks, after the Mexico and Chicago "G-20" and NATO Summits next week-end...


    + Moreover, the German Government wants to push for the Ratification by the Bundestag of both the "Fiscal Pact" contained in the recent €uroArea Treaty, including the "Golden Rule" (See "EuroFora"s News Reports from Paris on 16/8/2011 and from Brussels' EU Summits of December 2011 and January 2012), and the European Financial Stability Mechanism's augmentation, before Summer, i.e. practically speaking, before July, because it considers that, basically, "Solidarity and Financial Stability must be closely Linked", as it was replied to other Journalists' questions, in a way obviously relevant also to Foreign affairs, as well as to domestic issues..
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+ Meanwhile, on Afghanistan, despite Hollande's unilateral anouncement to withdraw French soldiers "at the end of 2012", instead of the collective 2014 deadline earlier agreed by all Countries participatants to the International Coalition which has progressively joined the USA on the spot, (i.e. practically 1 year before all others), which goes contrary to the "Principle" : "All together in, All Together Out", decided by the Allies, as USA's under State Secretary Philip Gordon recently stressed in a Hearing by the Senate's Foreign affairs Comittee, anouncing that he'd visit Paris, "to speak about that", spending there "as much Time as needed", given that "until now, Everybody has kept that Principle, despite the Economic Crisis, despite political pressure", and that Hollande had promissed earlier that "he remais commited to the aim that the Internatiional Coalition must Win", German Chancellor Merkel, who met with Afghani President Karzai today, officially confirmed that "Germany remains committed until the 2014 collective (Military) withdrawal".

However, even if the new official Agreement signed Next Morning in Berlin by German Chancellor Merkel and Afghani President Karzai, clearly refers to the collectively agreed "End of the Transition phase in 2014", nevertheless, in strictly Legal, and not political terms, the 2012 text notes that "Cooperation in the Military field shall be accomplished through ....bilateral annual Programmes", which "will be Renegotiated Annually", (i.e., the next being scheduled for 2013).

It remains to see how Hollande wil handle the issue of the French rotating chairmanship at EUROCORPS, whose current Chiefd, French General  Bavinchove, heads ISAF's Joint Staff Headquarters at Kabul until the first Months of 2013, (comp. EUROCORPS' Head's statements to "EuroFora" since September 2012, as well as those given to us later also by EUROCORPS' deputy Chief, German General Spindler, on January 2012)...


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French and Greek People vote Right, but get only what is Left !?...

Written by ACM
Sunday, 06 May 2012

 

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By a strange coincidence, the same political Paradox suddenly emerged both in French and Greek crucial Elections, despite various differences in particular circumstances and concrete ways to do so, when it became clear that in both EU Countries the Majority of the People had, in fact, voted and/or were leaning towards- and ready to vote for- the Right side of the Political spectrum, but, nevertheless, curiously, the end result pointed, at least for the moment, towards its ...Left side, without really knowing why...


It was already an unprecedented coincidence that the same Day was chosen for both Elections, which had a crucial importance not only for the Countries involved, but also for their relations with other key EU players, f.ex. Germany, etc., and mainly for Europe's role in the World, either Economically (f.ex. on €uroArea, etc), and/or GeoPolitically (f.ex. vis-a-vis Turkey, etc. : a fact which includes even ... Armenia's national election, curiously also scheduled for May 6), as well as for all Humankind, at least as far as it concerns such "Social/Moral Values"' issues as Mariage and/or Adoption of Children by Homosexuals, Genetic Manipulation of Human Embryos, etc.


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(A) Sarkozy undermined, but his Ideas Win among the People  in France + Europe.
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Facts are crystal-Clear in the case of France :


Since the 1st Round, French People gave a Large Majority of Votes to the Right side of the Political spectrum, leaving only a Minority to the Left :


- Sarkozy and Hollande arrived practically Equal : at 27% - 28%, but, while the First surprisingly  found a much Bigger "Reserve" of Votes from other candidates of the Right (nearly + 30%), on the contrary, the Second didn't find but only some +15% of Reserves at the Left side, i.e. almost .. Half Less (- 50%) !...


=> In consequence (and taking also into account the 2007 precedent, as well as the Historic political profile of each one among the 10 Individual Candidates), the Difference between Right (led by Sarkozy) and Left (led by Hollande) stood at about .. 57 % against 43 % of Votes, giving a clear Absolute Majority Potential to the Right side, whose uncontested Champion was, both in 2007 and 2009, as well as on 2012, Nicolas Sarkozy.

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That 57 % - 43 % Right/Left potential Divide in 2012 included towards Sarkozy 27+% : also Marine le Pen (National Front reformed) 18,1%, Dupont-Aignan (Neo-Gaullist) 1,8%, Bayrou (Center-Right, former Minister in Rightist Governments) 9,1%, and Cheminade (various Center-Right) 0,3%, etc. And towards Hollande 28+% : also Eva Joly (Greens) 2,3%, Melenchon (Left/PC+) 11%, Poutou and Arthaud (Leftists) 1,1% + 0,2%, etc.

Back in the 2007 French Presidential Elections, (as well as in the 2009 EU Parliament's Elections), Sarkozy's party, leading at the Right (UMP), had notoriously succeeded to Attract, at the 2nd Round, most Votes earlier given to Le Pen and to Bayrou, etc., brillantly Winning both races, even if none of those two other initial candidates never endorsed him explicitly.

But, astonishingly, for the first time on 2012, exceptionaly, the Transfert of Votes didn't work as well as in the Past at the Right side of the political spectrum, while, on the contrary, it worked almost entirely at the Left side, so that Sarkozy was suprisingly Deprived from many Votes of the Right side which usually came to him at the 2nd Round, contrary to Hollande, who recuperated all the available supplementary votes at the Left side, resulting in a "Tight" Difference of  48+% - 51+%, (where the displacement of only ...1,5% of votes at the last minute might have Changed the whole End Result) !..

This Strange and spectacular, overall Change, which practically turned Upside Down the main Political Trend of the 1st Round, (a Clear Majority of almost 57 % - 43 % in favor of the Right side : Comp. Supra), into its Opposite, (a Small Difference of 48+% - 51+% in Favor of the Left side), was obviously due mainly to the Fact that too Many among the initial Voters of the Right, finally, either Abstained in the 2nd Round, or (even more astonishing) rather Voted "Spoilt" or "Null"   :

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Indeed, while the 2nd Round's  Difference between Sarkozy and Hollande was so "Tight", that Only a displacement of just about 1,5% might have Changed the Final Result (Comp. Supra), nevertheless, almost a percentage as High as almost ...6 %  Voted on purpose "Spoilt or "Nul" : An obviously Exceptional Fact...
+ Moreover, the Abstention at the 2nd Round was apparently Higher than most previous similar Elections in France.               

In other words : Sarkozy only needed just about 1 Million of votes more in order to Win against Hollande, (and normally had much more Reserves among Voters of the Right than that), but more than ..Twice that number of Votes : 2,2 Millions, on the contrary, were surprisingly wasted into "Spoilt" or "Null", at the Second Round, many among the Rightist Voters having curiously been led to make No Choice at the end, contrary to what they had repeatedly done in the Past (f.ex. on 2007, 2009, etc). ..                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

- Why ?

=> Concerning the possible Causes, which might explain the Mystery of this Political Paradox, at least 1 thing is Clear :


- While back on 2007, Sarkozy had succeeded to attract both Voters of the Rightist Le Pen, and of the Center-Right Bayrou, as well as to mobilize all his own Party (UMP) Members or voters, practically by stressing mainly 1 important Political issue, which had opposed him clearly to the "Socialist" candidate both in Press Statements and in their Public Debate (his opposal to Turkey's controversial and Unpopular EU bid),
on the contrary, now, on 2012, something made Sarkozy, curiously, oppose 2 other, rather Different issues against his "Socialist" competitor in order to attract the Voters of Rightist Le Pen (mainly the "identity" and "Borders" of the EU vis a vis illegal immigrants and Global Competition), and those of Center-Right Bayrou (mainly the "Debt-reduction Economic Policy), leaving his own Party, UMP, (comparatively "in limbo", between these 2 differend additions in a never seen before sketchy Patchwork)...

Both "EuroFora" and other People were, indeed, Surprized to find out that something had Hindered, particularly at the Beginning, Sarkozy's 2012 Electoral Campaign from developing further, culminating and, at last, concluding his Famous 2007 (and 2009) Winning leit-motiv  Issue which notoriously linked his famous opposal to Turkey's controversial and unpopular EU bid, with the Will to develop a Strong, Political Europe, having an Identity based on Values, History, Culture and Geographical borders, but without  Bureaucracy, able to attract wide Popular support, obviously "incompatible" with Ankara's EU claims.

Moreover, contrary to 2007, neither Turkey, nor even political Europe as such, were Not  Discussed at all in the one and only Public Debate between Sarkozy and Hollande during the 2012 Presidential Electoral Campaign, (particularly after Hoillade refused Sarkozy's proposal to hold 3 Public Debates : on Economy, Social issues and European/International politics) !  Instead, the 2012 Debate was limited only to Economic issues (briefly including just €urozone as such), as well as Illegal Migration, etc., restricting the so-called "International" part merely to far away .. Afghanistan and Sub-Saharian Africa, (i.e. curiously Skipping not only Europe, but also Turkey and even all Mediterranean Sea, etc)...

By the way, even topical Social/BioEthical issues such as Euthanasia, "Marriage" and Children Adoption by Homosexual couples, Genetic Manipulation of Human Embryons, etc., on which Hollande and Sarkozy are opposed, curiously, are also ommitted from any Public Debate.... 


Results clearly revealed, however, that a wide Majority of French People were really Attracted by the Coherent Political line of the Winning 2007 and 2009 National and European electoral campaigns, (as the only Issue able to win Votes both from the Center-Right of Bayrou and from the Far-Right of Le Pen, etc), while, on the contrary, its Strange and unfortunate replacement, on 2012, by a kind of "Patchwork", Zig-Zag addition of various particular issues, one for the Center, another for the Far Right, leaving a 3rd one for his own initial political base (Comp. Supra), obviously failed to convince.

This Curious (and finaly Fatal) 2012 ideological Change, appeared so more Strange, that Sarkozy's original, 2007 and 2009 winning, coherent Ideological "Credo" on Turkey and Europe, (which naturally included both Democracy/Human Rights and Economic Governance issues, as well as Identity/History-Civilisation-Geographical Borders, Fight against Bureaucracy, etc), had succesfully started back on 2007 (when he managed to Unblock EU's Institutions from the "No" to 3 2005-2007 EuroReferenda, notoriously motivated mainly by People'es opposal to Turkey's EU claims), and was further developed on 2009 EU Parliament's election (largely won by ChristianDemocrats/EPP mainly in France and Germany, etc., led by Top MEPs Daul and Poettering after Sarkozy-Merkel's Berlin confirmation of the Incompatibility between a Political Europe with Values and Turkey's controversialm and Unpopular EU bid), but remained yet Incomplete :


According, indeed, to the Compromise deal brokered on August 2007 between EU Commission's Head Barroso from Portugal (a notorious supporter of Turkey's EU claims) and Sarkozy, the French Government had accepted to Skip its Pre-Electoral promise to clearly Stop Turkey's controversial and unpopular EU bid, on 2 Conditions : (A) That none among 5 Chapters considered to fit only for Full EU Members would ever be opened to Negociations with Turkey, (something which was respected until now), and (B) that a PanEuropean political, public Debate would be launched on Europe's Future, (something which was Scandalously undermined, at a surprizingly gross Caricature's level, by an obscure "Committee", cut away from EU Citizens, behind Closed Doors somewhere inside Brussels' Bureaucratic corridors, back on 2010 : See "EuroFora"s May 2010 NewsReport : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/colmarbrussels.html ).


Since then, various converging Statements of Sarkozy's closest and faithful alies, (f.ex. by Governing Party UMP's former Head, Patrick Devedjan, on July 2008 in Strasbourg, and by JHA Minister, former Director of Sarkozy's 2007 Electoral campaign and Presidential Palace Elysée's Secretary General, Claude Geant, on July 2011 at Brumath, etc), were confirming the Impression that the French President had the intention to start directly with EU Citizens and other EU Leaders such a Political Debate on "Europe's Future", (including Turkey's controversial and unpopular EU bid), from the 2012 Presidential Elections up to the 2014 next EU Parliament Elections, for final, crystal-clear Decisions.  Particularly when New Political Developments, which were unfolding meanwhile throughout various other EU Countries, (from Germany in 9/2009, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Slovakia, Greece, Finland, etc. even inside the UK and in Switzerland, etc), revealed manifold Popular reactions in favor of an EU Identity and against those who insisted to attempt to impose Turkey's EU claims even contrary to People's Democratically expressed will, which are recently gaining more and more Political space in Europe (2009-2012).

Ankara was apparently so Afraid of this, that pro-Governemental Newspaper "Zaman" dared exploit the Monstruous, Deadly Terrorism which massacrated 3 Small Children and their Father in a School at Toulouse (France), after also killing 2 unarmed French Soldiers, on March 2012, in order to launch Personal Attacks against Sarkozy accused to "Block Turkey's EU Accession" bid, and grossly Slander France and the whole Europe, even Threatening them with Worse if they dared speak out about Europe's "identity", "Civilisation", etc !...


This brutal Aggression happened just a few Days after Hollande's Replies to "EuroFora"s Questions revealed that the Socialist Candidate, even if he acknowledged the Fact that, currently, "Turkey does not fullfil the (EU) Criteria" for Accession, nevertheless, wanted to continue and Accession Process, and couldn't even Guarantee that an eventual Ankara's Accession into the EU won't be Decided during the Next Few Years, (See  : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/hollandeoneuturkey.html ), and just before Sarkozy visits Strasbourg for a landmark Speech on Europe (Comp. : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/toulousechildrenmassacreandeurope.html ).


But, despite even that Scandalously Provocative incident, curiously People had to wait until ... 1 Month Later, on April 25, after the beginning of the 2nd Round's Electoral Campaign, in order to see, at last, a clear Confirmation of Sarkozy's Refusal to consider that Turkey might have any "vocation" to enter the EU, expressed by writting in his "Credo" Leaflet resuming his Commitments, which started to be distributed when he visited anew Strasbourg's region Alsace, (See : "EuroFora"s NewsReport from Cernay : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkzocernay.html )...

In the meantime, Surprisingly, the French People proved that they were very Interested on that Issue, of obviously crucial importance for the kind of Europe in which they would like to live in, given particularly Turkey's notorious Anti-Democratic, Oppressive and Retrograde Regime, with Grave Violations of Human Rights, in addition to its predominantly Asiatic location and traditions, Economic-social and Educational-Cultural UnderDevelopment, etc. :

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- Indeed, almost immediately after the Publication of Hollande's revelatory Replies to "EuroFora"s Questions on Turkey (see Supra), all Polls, by a coincidence, noted an unprecedented Sharp Increase of Sarkozy's Approvals since the Middle of March (See relevant Graphics, herewith), and this Growing Popular Movement continued Upwards after  "EuroFora"s crystal-clear Denonciation of the above-mentioned blatant Terrorist attempt to Muzzle France and Europe, dated March 21,  as well as our relevant Questions to a Sarkozy's Counsellor, which apparently contributed to the French President's 1st, explicit, Strong reference, during the 2012 Electoral Campaign, on Europe's "Values" and "Civilisation", at his landmark Speech in Strasbourg, on March 22, (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyfranceforteeuropeforte.html ), up to the French President's spontaneously made points on France's and Europe's "Identity", "History", "Civilisation", etc. at his oral Speech at Nancy, on April 2 (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from the spot : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozynancypeople.html ), etc.

Suddenly, this sharp Popular Increase of support to Sarkozy Halts and Lowers Down, around April 11, when Hollande takes the Initiative to claim, during a TV interview, that Turkey won't enter inside the EU "during the Next 5 Years", even if he's elected, obviously trying to Downplay the issue, (and apparently succeeding to convince at least a part of the People, misled by a pre-electoral Promise without any Guarantee, and which doesn't even exclude that a Decision to accept Turkey inside the EU might be taken during these same 5 Next Year, independently of whether it might be implemented, f.ex. in 5 Years and 1 Week later)...

But, after "EuroFora" evokes the issue with Sarkozy's Press Director, Frank Louvrier, during his speech at Vendome Square in Paris, on April 15, (comp. : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyconcordecalloneurobank.html ), and partly with former JHA Minister Brice Hortefeux, a long-time Sarkozy faithful and currently MEP, during the subsequent EU Parliament's Plenary session in Strasbourg, the French President decides to advance further and adds, just 1 Day later, in a Landmark speech at Nice, for the 1st time, a Strong appeal on "Europe's Christian Roots", History, Civillisation and Identity, widely applauded by the People, (See : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyeuropeanidentity.html ), and succeeds to mark, at the 1st Round, a much Better Result than what had been predicted by Polls, (comp. Supra).


+ More important : Sarkozy (who had been, exceptionaly, Isolated from Press Contacts, by a strange Systematic Organization, probably due to a lower-level Secretariat and not to his core team, during almost all his speeches and collective gatherings, Contrary to his Natural Temper and opposite to what he used to do during his 2007 Winning Electoral Campaign, as f.ex. in his February 2007 Reply to "EuroFora" co-Founder's Question on EU and Turkey, published by "TCW", etc), from now on, he clearly Changes stance :


indeed, when  he saw the overall Results of the 1st Round, (Comp. Supra), following also "EuroFora"s Revelation that Hollande's Campaign Director, Moscovici, reportedly had promissed to Ankara to shortly ReLaunch EU - Turkey's Accession Negociations, by Opening even the 5 Chapters previously "freezed" by Sarkozy, according to a pro-Governemental Turkish Newspaper "Zaman" article,  (comp. Supra and : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkzocernay.html ), Sarkozy starts, at last, to clearly confirm that "Turkey has No Vocation to enter the EU", according to his "Credo" leaflet, published during his April 25 new visit to Strasbourg's region (http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkzocernay.html), and systematically Multiplies, from now on, several Strong mentions of France's and Europe's "Identity", "History", "Values", "Culture" and "Civilisation", "Christian Roots", etc., up to his landmark Synthesis' Speech at Trocadero, on May 1st (comp. "EuroFora"s NewsReport from the spot).

=> The Astonishing Result of this, last-minute, Vital Re-Orientation of Sarkozy's Campaign, mainly at the 2nd Round, is that the French President suddenly Starts to .... Gain at least + 0,5%, often + 1%, and several times even a +1,5% more of Favorable Popular views EACH DAY in almost All Polls published up to Last Day (included !) before the Final Vote !....


Thus, from a very Negative 42,5% against 57,5% that Polls initially claimed at the Beginnin of the 2nd Round, finally, Sarkozy succeeded to Diminish that huge Difference down to just 48+% against 51+% finaly, creating a Surprizingly sharp Upward Trend in People's support to his main Ideas, which would have obviously Won the overall 2012 Presidential Election, if it had been extended just 2 or 3 Days more...

+ However, in Addition to -and independently from- that, Sarkozy could have naturally Won the 2012 Election, and even with a Large Difference, if this obviously negative Division among Political Parties of the Right, (UMP, NDA, FN, etc), didn't exist, or could and should be definitively overcome (Comp. relevant Numbers, cited Supra) : A Crucial Issue, particularly "Open", notoriously during the forthcoming crucial 2012 French Parliamentary Elections, scheduled for June.
                               
    (+ NDLR : See also infra)

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(B) Greek People give a Majority of MPs to the Right, but Divisions push Left...
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The Results of the May 6 Elections are much more Obviously Paradoxical in the case of Greece :

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- The Greek People surprized Pollsters by not only giving at the former Main Opposition, Center-Right Party of "New Democracy" the rank of the 1st Greek Party in 2012 (even with just 19%), but also for unexpectedly Boosting 2 more Parties at the Right side of the Political spectrum :


The New "Independent Greeks" party, composed mainly by former "ND" MPs who didn't accept controversial prolonged Deals with the Socialists on the Debt but also other, National and Foreign Policy issues (+ 11%), as well as the Far-Right "Golden Dawn", which suddenly jumped from 0,2% up to + 8 %, while, at the same time, the formerly Governing "Socialist" party of PASOK, astonishingly fell from 1st down to ... 3rd Party, with only some 13%, outnumbered by the Leftists of "SYRIZA", which suddenly arrived 2nd, winning 17 % of votes, followed by 8,5% for the Communist Party (the only one Unchanged !), and 6 % for another, New but Small party of "Democratic Left", while many other, old and new Parties failed to get more than 3% each in order to have at least 1 MP, leaving some 20% of the Votes without any Parliamentary Representation...

+ Thus, considering also the votes won by various Smaller, non-represented Parties, of Center-Right, Right and Far-Right, the Political Spectrum's Right side won almost a Majority of Votes of at least + 48% or even slightly over + 50% and more.

=> Most important : The Electoral System gave a crystal-clear, Absolute Majority of Representatives in the Parliament at the Right side of the Political Spectrum, with 162 MPs, (composed of 108 for ND, 33 for IG and 21 for GA), against only 138 MPs for the Left, out of a Total of 300 MPs all in all... (See Graphics).


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In consequence, the Right could, in good Democratic Theory, take over on 2012 from PASOK's Left the Government of the Country (which it holds since the 2009 Crisis), as a result of a Normal Political Alternace, but, in fact, ... it will not !

On the contrary, many observers easily predicted that, after various vain efforts to find in real practice a Majority ready and willing to govern Greece, finally, it will be, almost certainly decided to hold .. New Elections Next Month, probably on the 10th or the 17th of June, i.e. once again at the Same Day as the French Parliamentary Elections, (comp. Supra). A mainstreal pro-"ND" Newspaper even titled, immediately after the 6 May Vote : "Impracticable Parliament => New Elections on June !"...
Why ?


Once again, (as also in France : Comp. Supra), mainly because the Right appears deeply Divided, for controversial reasons and/or pretexts :


- The Rightists of the "Gold Dawn", who call themselves simply "Nationalists", but unexpectedly won many Votes via a succesful Populism recently, as well as because of the notorious fact that Turkey scandalously lets some 90% of Illegal Immigrants entering into the EU to start from the Greco-Turkish Border, (as many MEPs recentlly denounced in EU Parliament in Strasbourg, as well as French President Sarkozy himself), are rejected by many who suspect them to be "Extremists", while, in fact, they are not well known yet to the Public (since they had only ..0,2% before), and seem to be evolving into something between the German NPD or Pro-Köln/Pro-NRW and other Local/Regional "Freie Wähler", as well as France's "National Front" (as recently revised by Marine Le Pen), close to Austria's "Freie Partei" etc., or to Sweden and/or Finland's "True Swedish" and "True Finnish" recently boosted Parties, or even to the Netherland's "Freedom Party" (until now, supporting part of a Governing Coalition - with the difference that, in Greece there are No Religious tones in GA's case), etc.


Notoriously pro-Turkish EU Accession bid, Socialist European Commissioner Fuhle, nevertheless, reportedly hurried up to ... "Diabolize" the "Golden Dawn", accusing it to be undemocratically "Extremist" and dangerous, etc., according to a statement made from FYROM's capital, Skopje, shortly before the forthcoming NATO Summit in USA (Chicago), where FYROM's current Government notoriously wants to push for its entry to the Coalition (supported, if not pushed by Turkey), even without previously settling its "Name" problem with Greece, which risks to be practically Hindered to fully participate at the Chicago Summit if it doesn't form a Government before that...

- On the contrary, the brand New Party of "Independent Greeks" is, more or less, considered as fully Democratic by all observers, since it was hastily formed mainly by former MPs of the main Opposition Party "New Democracy"(ChristianDeemocrats/EPP), some of them earlier very close to its current Head, Nicos Samaras, but disagreed with "ND"'s prolonged deals with the out-going former Government of "PASOK" (Socialists), particularly on how to handle the Debt issue, but also various National/Foreign Policy matters, the anti-Corruption campaign, etc. Its real problem is mainly that its current Chief, Camenos, is likely to Refuse an Agreement with "New Democracy", since he considers that its President, Samaras, would have sort of "Betrayed" its People by making too much Compromises with PASOK's Socialists, etc.


However, in fact ND's Samaras, had simply started to apply, since November 2011, a Formula initially suggested to a Sarkozy's Counsellor by "EuroFora", at a Crucial moment, on the sidelines of the "G20" International Summit at Cannes (See "EuroFora"s relevant NewsReports from the spot : F.ex. :  http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozycounselorformulaongreece.html ), and that we immediately proposed to the ND in Greece, after he gave us a "Green Light" in principle, so that Samaras' Spokesman, Michelakis, next Morning anounced the main Idea, before ND's President himself anounces, later that Day, that he would accept such a solution :

The main point of our Idea was to Distinguish, between the "Financial envelop" of the controversial EU - Greece deal negociated earlier by PASOK's Head, former Prime Minister Giorgos Papandreou, provoking an unprecedented Popular Revolt throughout the country on October 28, from one side, and the concrete "Economic Policy" Measures, thanks to which one or another Greek Government believed that it could find enough Funds in order to pay what it promissed at the agreed Time deadlines : ND might decide to accept the 1st, "Financial envelop", point, without necessarily having also to swallow the 2nd, "Economic Policy", point, which, on the contrary, it might wish to settle with Different Measures, we had initialy suggested.


Thus almost Nobody had Disagreed, then in Greece, for such a Formula to start being applied, with the aim to hold crucial Elections at the beginning of December 2011, so that on December 9, a brand New Greek Prime MInister might have been elected in order to be able to also participate at the Brussels' EU Summit.  Something which had been Accepted, then, even by German Chancellor Angie Merkel, as well as by French President Sarkozy, who considered as a probable Date for such Elections in Greece the 4 or 5 of December 2011, which fitted quite well with Samaras' own will for Elections to be held the Soonest possible.


But, a part of ND's old establishment, and mainly PASOK's manouvers, added to some EU Commission's demands from Brussels, and various other subsequent interferences, apparently pushed Samaras towards accepting, nonens volens, that this partical and ephemeral "Deal" with PASOK is succesively extended for 6 Months later, up to May 2012, (after a 1st extensio for January 2012, later postponed anew for March 2012, etc...), until Samaras was practicaly obliged to almost accept much more of PASOK-negociated controversial deals with the EU...

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Polls' Time-line evolution clearly shows, indeed, that Samaras' ND was initially a very Strong 1st in People's choices until December 2011 included, but started to slowly but constantly diminish afterwards, particularly since January 2012... 

However, all this might be finally clarified and definitively overcome, thanks also to the fresh new Electoral Mandate given now by the Greek People to the Right side of the Political Spectrum to take over the Government of the Country, if all those involved stick to the Main Points which emerged from the People's votes :

I.e., a clear will to Change Government, by condemning PASOK's "Socialists" (generally considered also as the main Responsible for the Debt, in fact provoked by past Clientelism/Nepotism of former PASOK Governments since the 1980ies, and a Scandalous Deal, back on 1999-2000, to Hide that Debt in order for Greece to enter €urozone earlier than normal, i.e. even before it did necessary Reforms, in exchange of accepting Turkey's controversial and unpopular EU bid, strongly wished then by former "Socialist" Governments of Mrs Jospin, Schroeder/Fischer, Blair, Amato and Gonzalez in France, Germany, the UK, Italy and Spain, etc).


+ Plus a notorious Popular Desire, and an absolute, Vital Need, to start a Full and Efficient campaign to eradicate Corruption, political Nepotism, and other Crimes committed by many State Officials during the period of 1980-2011 : Something which could even Help to Restore the Economy of the Country, f.ex. by firing a lot of Corrupted, and/or Counter-Productive, cushy-job holders or even Criminals inside the Greek State-controlled Sector, so that the Structural Deficit provoked by a Disproportionate Number of Civil Servants compared to the Country's GDP, might vanish for ever.

ND has already proposed to start Investigations for the whole period of 1975-2011, while the other 2 parties reportedly want to lift a controversial Time Deadline, excluding Ministers from Criminal Prosecution too soon. Meanwhile, a simple Citizen publishing a Letter in a Rightist Media, rightfuly denounces the Fact that, until now, PASOK Governments "didn't fire abusive Civil Servants when we could do so, and, thus, now, this has provoked 1 Million 500.000 jobless People in the Private (productive) Sector !".


++ A Stronger stance on the well-known issue of Greece's possible Oil/Gaz resources in the Aegean Sea, f.ex. by determining the area of the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone, according to the International Law for the Sea, despite Turkey's War Threats; given the country's current needs to pay a huge Debt. Something which would certainly interest also several Bog Western European, industrialized Countries, particularly after the Japan Fukushima's incident limited Nuclear Energy dreams in several Countries, augmenting the need for other sources of Energy, (naturally welcome if they are even found inside EU's External Borders)...

+++ A more Efficient Fight against Illegal Migration Routes, by better protecting EU's External Borders, particularly in front of Turkey, from where notoriously comes 90% of illegal immighrants penetrating inside the EU : Something that practically all EU wants today (Comp. Supra)..

(Etc).
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=> Finally, it clearly appears, that in both cases of France and Greece, the latest Elections mainly brought at the forefront the Topical Issue of how to deal with the current Division between the Traditional Right and the fast growing more or less Far Right political parties, (Comp. Supra) more ort less like thoser who recently emerged, during various Elections, also in the Netherlands, Austria, Bulgaria, Hungary, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, etc., even in the case of Israel, where, Today's surprising decision by Prime Minister Netaniahu to broker a Government deal with a Rightist Religious party, in order to avoid immediate elections, etc., obviously stimulates fresh Debates...

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Sarkozy au parvis des Droits de l'homme/Trocadero: Humanisme Européen contre Délocalisation +Dumping

Written by ACM
Tuesday, 01 May 2012
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*Paris-Trocadero/Angelo Marcopolo/- C'est devant une spectaculaire vue d'ensemble sur Paris en haut du parvis Historique des Droits de l'homme, là où fût née l' ONU et la célebre Déclaration Universelle de 1948 avant d'aller à New York, que le Président français Nicolas Sarkozy a fait une superbe Synthèse du "message Humaniste" qui y réunit symboliquement l' Identité, l' Histoire et les Valeurs de l'Europe, avec son appel pour un "Nouveau Modèle Social", où la sortie de la Crise Mondiale vers une Croisssance durable utiliserait, en même temps que la priorité à l' Investissment pour Innovations et aux reformes structurelles pour plus de Compétitivité, aussi la lutte contre les Délocalisations vers des pays qui piétinent les Droits Humains/Sociaux, et/ou polluent la Nature, mettent en Danger la Santé Humaine sans respecter aucune règle, et contre la Concurrence Déloyale aux Frontières externes de l'UE, par "Dumping" Social et/ou Environemental, lorsqu'il y a des graves violations même des droits élementaires (y compris des Enfants). Il fût largement applaudi par une immense foule compacte de plus de 200.000 personnes etroitement serrés ensemble, formant un "forêt" infranchissable des drapeaux tricolores prêtes à bondir dans des mouvements ethousiastes d'un Peuple étonamment soucieux de stimuler les journalistes présents, y compris "EuroFora", de "bien montrer toute la vérité", comme plusieurs simples Citoyens, jeunes ou vieux, nous ont prié avec éspoir aux yeux...

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Symbole aussi de l' Histoire d'une celebre Victoire de soldats français, si combatifs qu'ils n'hesitaient pas de se mouiller à l'eau pour conquerir un Fort et libérer le Leader légitime d'un pays (Espagne) ténu Prisonier par des rebels, pour mener à bien la mission qui leur avait officiellement assigné la Communauté Internationale du début du 19e siecle, le Peuple de la France a massivement répondu à l' invitation au Trocadero :
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      C'est, en effet, juste après l' entrée à l'espace VIP d'un souriant Ministre de l'Intérieur Gueant, l' experimenté ex-Secrétaire Général du Palais Présidentiel de l' Elysée, mais surtout, ex-Directeur de la Campagne Electorale victorieuse de Sarkory en 2007, (comp. diverses déclarations de Gueant à "EuroFora", p.ex. à Strasbourg, Brumath, etc., où il nous avait notamment prédit que les Elections françaises de 2012 concerneraient aussi, et surtout, la question centrale de l' Identité de la France et de l' Europe), qu' un parmi les prémiers orateurs, le Secrétaire Général du Parti Majoritaire au Gouvernement (UMP) Jean-François Copé, a pu annoncer que le Peuple qui avait répondu à l' appel exceptionel de Sarkozy à dépasser la routine en célébrant, pendant cette anniversaire de la journée du Travail, au 1er Mai, aussi l' indispensable Débat Démocratique pour les Choix Politiques fondamentaux que les Citoyens ont à faire pour déterminer leur Avénir lors d'un Vote crucial et définitif, le Dimanche qui vient.  Ce chiffre fût élevé, plus tard, à "environ 250.000" par Sarkozy-lui-même, tandis qu'entre temps, de plus en plus du monde approchait et essayait de pénetrer dans la place du Trocadero, face au Palais de Tokyo, devant la silhouette de la gigantesque Tour d' Eiffel, (puisque beaucoup de gens, comme ils nous ont dit après, n'ont arrivé que juste un peu avant le début du discours de Sarkozy), formant un énorme "Block" d'une telle Densité, qu' "EuroFora" avait vainement essayé, ensemble avec d'autres collègues Journalistes d'approcher les hautes Tours metalliques reservées pour Photo et TV, sans succès devant cet ensemble "Compact" de marée Humaine, jusqu'à ce qu'un long et oblique périple en "zig-zag", nous donne la chance de rencontrer un Agent experimenté de l' Elysée connu de longue date, qui nous guida, ensemble avec d'autres collègues, avec mouvements rapides en "slalom" à travers un passage imperceptible mais efficace au milieu de la foule foisonante, jusqu' à l'endroit qui donnait une superbe vue d'ensemble sur la scène centrale et aux environs, comme les Photos indiquent...

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Ainsi, "EuroFora" a pu trouver refuge sur une haute tourelle en structure métallique, hôte des collegues de la Télé LCI, récemment rencontrés à Mulhouse, Paris, etc,  juste à côté de l' imposant statue du Marechal Foch, le célèbre vainqueur de la 1ère Guerre Mondiale, connu pour sa fameuse phrase, résumant son 1ère Victoire dans une bataille à Lorraine, au voisinage de Strasbourg : -"Pressé fortement sur ma Droite, mon Centre cède, impossible de me mouvoir, situation excellente, j'attaque !", qui pourrait, éventuellement, "parler" à Sarkozy pour la situation politique actuelle, après le 1er tour des élections de 2012...

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    => Car "Il y a une Civilisation Européenne que nous voulons défendre. Il y a un Modèle Européen que nous voulons protéger. - Il ya an Humanisme Européen que nous ne voulons pas laisser diluer dans un Monde sans Principles, sans Règles, sans Régulation, et sans Frontières", a revendiqué avec force Nicolas Sarkozy, ajoutant spontanément à son projet de discours et vivement applaudi par le Peuple.  

- "Nous avons réçu de nos parents en héritage, comme un trésor, la Reconciliation Franco-Allémande, la Paix en Europe"et "des Térritoires où se dressent partout des Cathédrales et des Eglises : => Personne ne nous interdira de révendiquer nos racines Chrétiennes !", assura-t-il, avancant bien au-délà de son projet de discours.

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     Et "nous avons réçu en Héritage aussi des Valeurs, une Education, un mode de vie, auxquels nous ne rénoncerons jamais !". "Nous ne vénons pas de nul part. La France n'est pas page blanche. Nous sommes les Héritiers d' une Grande Culture, d'une Langue Universelle. Ce patrimoine nous oblige. Nous avons plus des dévoirs que de droits. C'est tout le sens de mon projet", ajouta Sarkozy, largement applaudi par un People motivé.

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    - "Ce Projet que je vous présente n'est rien d'autre que le Rêve d'une Nation Française Rassemblée, Fière de ses Valeurs, j' ose le mot : de son Identité" : -  "Si l'on conteste à la France son Identité, qu'auront nous à partager avec les autres identités dans le Monde ? Croyez-vous que la Chine ne défend pas son identité ? Que le Brézil ne défend pas son Identité ? Que les Etats-Unis d' Amérique ne défendent pas leur Identité ? Si nous rénoncons à nôtre Identité, nous n'aurons rien à partager avec les autres Idéntités dans le Monde", ajouta Sarkozy spontanément à son projet de discours, vivement applaudi par le Peuple.


     - "Alors oui, Peuple de France : Nous sommes Différends, et nous voulons le démeurer", il souligna, (rappellant la fameuse campagne Historique du Conseil de l'Europe contre le racisme et pour l' égalité entre les peuples (1994-1995) : - "Tous Différends. Tous Egaux !").


    - Car "nous ne voulons à aucun prix du Communautarisme, parcque nous sommes Républicains". Cad. "nous voulons la République et pas seulement la Démocratie", et "qu'en République, les Tribus et le Communautarisme, nous n'en voulons pas !", martela Sarkozy, dans la même ligne que la chancelière allémande Angie Merkel, et le prémier ministre brittanique David Cameroon, contre l' Appartheid et les Ghettos socio-culturels du Multi-Cultiralisme notoirement proné surtout par quelques immigrés Turcs manipulés de l' exterieur par le Gouvernement d' Ankara au détriment de l'integration socio-culturelle de leurs propres enfants, (Comp. avec des précedents NewsReports d' "EuroFora" p.ex. du Conseil de l'Europe à Strasbourg, etc), largement applaudi.


    - En effet, "nous sommes les Héritiers d'une immence Culture : Nous sommes les Enfants de Voltaire, de Chateaubriand, de Victor Hugo, de Maupassant : Nous ne voulons à aucun prix de l' aplatissement culturel du Monde. Nous voulons nôtre Langue, nôtre Litterature, nôtre Cinéma, nôtre Musique, nôtre Art de vivre". Parce que "nous sommes les Héritiers d'une immense Histoire : ... de Jeanne d' Arc, de Bonaparte Napoléon, du Général de Gaulle, de la Rénaissance, de la Résistance, des 30 Glorieuses" (années de production Economique Croissante après la Crise Mondiale du 1929, la 2ème Guère Mondiale et la Libération, jusqu' au milieu de la décenie 1970), rappela Sarkozy aux français applaudissant tout autour de l' immense et spectaculaire parvis du Trocadero. => Ainsi, "Nous ne voulons pas d'une pétite ambition". Par contre, "Nous voulons des Grands Projets !", Sarkozy a conclu, galvanisant le Peuple.
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    => AInsi, aujourd'hui, "pour affronter la Mondialisation, pour faire face aux Bouleversements incessants du Monde et aux Crises Gigantesques qui ebranlent les Nations et les Continents", il nous faut "invénter" un "Nouveau Modèle Social, qui permettra.... de réediter, au XXIe siècle, l'Exploit des "Trente Glorieuses", pour lequel "toutes les forces vives .. doivent être mobilisées", Sarkozy anonca.


    - "Un Nouveau Modèle Social.... où le Travail sera reconnu comme Valeur, où l'on ne découragera pas le travail, où l'on n'empechera pas ceux qui veulent travailler de travailler, où l'on ne partagera pas le travail : parce que c'est le travail qui crée le travail", et "où le Travail ne sera plus abîmé par les Dumpings (sociaux et/ou environementaux) et les Concurrences Déloyales", car "le travail sera protégé" :

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    - C'est pourquoi "Il faut des Frontières en Europe. Non pas pour s'enfermer. Mais pour s'affirmer dans le Monde. Pour clarifier les Rapports avec les autres".  Car, si "j' ai mis les Frontières (Externes de l'UE) au Centre de mon Projet (comp. déjà le Discours à Villepinte, dans le NewsReport d' "EuroFora" sur place), "parce que les Frontières expriment ce Réfus du Laisser-Faire et du Laisser-Aller", expliqua-t-il.


    - Puisque, "s'il n'y a plus de Frontières entre l' Europe et le reste du Monde, .... si ... entre le dédans et le déhors, il n'y a plus rien", p.ex. "si le Travail Français, avec toutes ses Charges (Sociales, etc), avec toutes ses Règles (p.ex. de respect de l' Environement Naturel, de protéction de la Santé Humaine, etc), est mis en Concurrence avec le travail de Pays (Non-Européens) qui Ne respectent aucune Règle, qui pratiquent des Dumpings Monétaires, Sociaux, Environementaux, (et) où les Salaires sont très Bas, où il n' y a pas de Sécurité Sociale, Pas de Droit du Travail, où l'on fait travailler les Enfants, les Prisoniers", (etc), alors, "comment le Travailleur Français et Européen pourront-ils Résister ?", ( à cette Concurrance Déloyale et/ou aux Délocalisations) ?, s' interrogea-t-il.


    P.ex., "comment démander à un Ouvrier de l' Industrie à travailler davantage, de faire des efforts de Productivité, s'il doit vivre toujours dans l' Angoisse de la Délocalisation, parce qu'il sait que tous le Efforts qu'il pourra faire ne compenseront jamais l' Iniquité de la Concurrence" (déloyale) ?


    - "Nous ne voulons pas une Europe-passoire : Nous n' avons pas fait l' Europe pour cela !", a-t-il critiqué le Président Français, largement applaudit.


    - C'est pourquoi "il faut des Frontières (externes) à l' Europe", "non pas pour s'enfermer, mais pour s'affirmer dans le Monde. Pour clarifier nos rapports avec les autres"; car "la Frontière c'est le Droit; opposé à la Force. La Règle opposée au Désordre. C'est la Régulation au lieu du Laisser -faire."

    - Car "ce sont bien les Conditions de la Concurrence qui rendent la Vie si dure, et c'est nôtre capacité à nous  protéger, qui la rendra moins Dure"  : P.ex., "si l' €uro est Trop Fort. Si l' Immigration n'est pas maîtrisée aux Frontières (Externes) de l' Europe. Si nos Marchés Publics sont ouverts, tandis que les autres (p.ex. aux USA) ne le sont pas. Si nous ne pouvons pas en réserver une partie à nos PME, (contrairement à ce que font les USA déjà). S'ils n'y a pas de Traçabilité des Produits (surtout Alimentaires) que nous importons, alors, la vie pour ceux qui travaillent continuera d'être Difficile", et "tous ceux qui travaillent, continueront de pércevoir l' Avénir non comme une promesse, mais comme une Ménace", a-t-il averti.


    => Face à ces Dangers, "je veux un Nouveau Modèle Social... où tous les Secteurs se sentiront Solidaires les uns des autres, où tout le Monde aura Conscience que c'est en faisant Front Ensemble qu'on pourra rélever le Défi de la Mondialisation, que la Competitivité .... se fabriquera, tout autant dans le Secteur Exposé à la Concurrence , que dans le Secteur Abrité, .... même si les prémiers ont davantage bésoin d'êtres protégés que les séconds, parce que lorsque l'entreprise ferme; ils perdent tout", proposa-t-il.


    - Dans ce "Nouveau Modèle Social, .. le Travail sera enrichi par la Formation, par l' Innovation, par l' Investissement", souligna Sarkozy, qui a notoirement fondé (ensemble avec la Chancelière Allemande Angie Merkel) la Stratégie Européenne de sortie de la Crise Mondiale sur les gains en Productivité obtenus par la priorité donnée aux Investissements productifs à la Recherche Scientifique et l' Innovation Technologique, auxquels la France consacra aussi l'essentiel d'un "Grand Emprunt" exceptionnel de 35 Milliards €, ainsi que par des Réformes Structurelles adéquates. Cela inclut aussi,  le droit de "chacun" d' "obtenir un Stage dans une Entreprise", mais aussi l'objectif que "plus aucun Enfant n'entre au Collège sans Savoir Lire, Ecrire et Compter", pendant que "l' Ecole sera attentive aux Fragilités de chacun" (avec des mésures d'aide aux enfants ayant bésoin, qu'il a déjà annoncé récemment : v. p.ex. le NewsReport d' "EuroFora" de Nancy), tandis que "les Professeurs seront davantage présents au Collège et au Lycèe, pour que les Elèves puissent s'appuyer sur eux", grâce aux financement d'heures supplementaires, provision des bureaux, etc.

 -- Ainsi, "l' Etat ne sera plus un Etat Bureaucratique, mais un Etat-entrepreneur, servant d' Appui à tous les Entrepreneurs et à tous les Créateurs", a-t-il promis. 

 
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    -  Dans ce cadre, c'est "parce que le Travail sera plus Créatif, plus Productif, (qu') il sera (aussi) plus Compétitif, plus Fort face à la Concurrence", Sarkozy a affiché comme objectif. + En même temps, "le Cpût du Travail sera allegé", car "plus le Travail coûte Cher, plus il a vocation  à être Délocalisé", car, d'une manière plus générale, "plus le Travail coûte Cher, moins il supporte la Concurrence", a-t-il averti.


    => Pour résoudre ce problème, "je veux un Nouveau Modèle Social où l'on ne chercrhera pas à diminuer le Coût du Travail en abaissant les Salaires, parce qu'en France le salaire n'est pas très haut, il est trop bas", et "parce que la baisse de salaires, c'est entrer dans le Cercle Vicieux de la Deflation et de la Dépression",  denonca-t-il.


    >>> En conséquence, "il faut Augmenter les Salaires, et .. Diminuer le Coût du Travail : Voilà le Défi !", annonca Sarkozy, se fixant un objectif original et Ambitieux :


    -  L' "Augmentation des Salaires .. se fera grâce à la Suppression de la Prime sur l' Emploi", a-t-il rappelé d'abord, (en sus des diverses autres mésures facilitant le paiement d'heures supplémentaires).  


    + Et, "Diminuer le Coût du Travail, cela se fera en Financant par la TVA une Réduction des Cotisations Familiales". En plus, "les Importations seront taxées, et elles contribueront au Financement de la Protection Sociale", tandis que, par contre, "les Exportations ne seront pas taxées, et elles seront plus Compètitives". Car, "la TVA Anti-Délocalisation", c'est une TVA pour Protéger l' Emploi", en France et dans  toute l' Europe, expliqua-t-il sur une Mésure-Phare de sa campagne de 2012.


    Sur ce point concret-clé, Sarkozy a denoncé "l' absence de Sincérité de tous ces Responsables qui étaient, avant la Campagne Electorale" de 2012, "plusieurs à Gauche à appuyer cette Idée. Mais, maintenant, où sont-ils ? On ne les entend plus ! ... La Gauche .. a crié ..... contre", "car il s'agit de faire Payer le Consommateur. Mais les Délocalisations, ce n'est pas injuste ? Le c hômage n'est pas injuste ?", s'interroga--il, applaudi par le Peuple.


    + En plus, "le Poids des Normes et des Règles, qui pèsent si lourdement sur le Travail, sera Allegé, parce qu' au lieu de protéger le Travail, l' Excès de Normes finit par le Détruire", a-t-il ajouté.
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    C'est sur cette question noedale que Sarkozy a critiqué la position traditionelle de la Gauche française et de certains Syndicats :


    - La différence, qui compte aujourd'hui, est que "vous avez allourdi le Coût du Travail", il accusa ses adversaires "Socialistes".  Et "l' alourdissement du Coût du Travail" ..."met en Danger les Emplois de ceux qui sont exposés à la Concurrence Etrangère", car "il accélère les Délocalisations, et pèse sur le Pouvoir d' Achat".


    - Ainsi,  en fait, "vous avez Abimé le Travail", et "vous avez appauvri les Travailleurs", il dénonca.   - Et ceci, pendant même que "vous prétendez le défendre" : Car, p.ex;, "vous voulez continuer à faire financer la Protection Sociale par le Travail", ce qui "est une Erreur économique" (comp. Supra). "Vous avez fait les 35 Heures", limitant la durée du travail, rappela-t-il au milieu des hués des centaines de milliers des gens contre cette mésure consideré par beaucoup d'avoir miné la compétitivité du pays, qui "ont non seulement affaibli nos Entreprises, mais elles ont aussi Détruit des Centaines de Milliers d' Emplois". Et "vous avez avancé l' âge de la Retraite à 60 ans, sans en avoir 1 centime" pour les payer, critiqua Sarkozy concretement.


    - Aujourd'hui-même, "vous Mentez aux Travailleurs", en "essayant de leur faire croire que nous pouvons Sortir de la Crise Sans Effort". Mais, en réalité, "si l'on ne s'en sort pas Par le Travail", alors, "c'est le Pouvoir d' Achat que vous remettez en Danger", a-t-il averti.
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     - Dénoncant des Manipulation des travailleurs par certains "Socialistes", Sarkozy observa qu' un peu plus tôt, au cortège du Syndicat (CGT) qui avait rompu sa neutralité Politique en appelant ouvertement de voter pour son adversaire, "Je n'ai pas entendu plaider la grande cause des Travailleurs", comme p;ex. à l époque "des défenseurs de Dreyfus", des "héritiers de la Révolution, du Front Populaire et du Conseil National de la Resistance", ni "la grande voix de Jaurés, défendant les Mineurs, ... ni celle de Léon Blum, réclamant les Congés payés, ni celle de Jean Moulin devant le CNR, ni celle de Zola demandant Justice pour Dreyfus". Par contre, "j'ai entendu surtout des slogans politiciens", il a critiqué.


    - "Mais ... nous nous considérons comme les Héritiers de ceux qui ont lutté pour le Droit de Grève, pour la Liberté Syndicale, et pour les Congés Payés", ainsi que de "ceux qui ont défendu Dréyfus, et .. qui ont creé la Sécurité Sociale : Nous nous considérons comme Acteurs du Progrès Social", il révendiqua.

    Sarkozy plaida pour "un Nouveau Modèle" "où le Capitalisme des Entrepreneurs aura remplacé le Capitalisme Financier", "ce Capitalisme Financier qui a trahit les principes du Marché", comme il dénonca, ajoutant oralement à son projet de discours, largement applaudi.

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    + "Où l' Entreprise seera redevenue une Communauté Humaine consciente de partager une destinée commune, où chacun sera récompensé de ses efforts, où les profits seront partagés, où la Participation aura suffisament progressé pour faire oublier ce reste de Lutte des Classes qui empoisonne encore nos relations sociales", comme il a dit.


    - Car, "il y a une Autre Voie  : celle de la Participation, que le Général de Gaulle a ouverte contre cette Gauche, contre ces Syndicats, contre toutes les formes du Conservatisme", rappela-t-il.


    - Dans cette direction, "nous avons fait la "Prime-Dividente", car le Dialogue Social n' avait débouché sur rien, parce que personne ne voulait bouger, Ni le Patronat, Ni les Syndicats", a-t-il observé. Mais "vous réfusez le Partage des Bénéfices entre les Actionaires et les Salariés, comme vous avez réfusé la Participation du Général de Gaulle, parce qu'au fond, vous n'avez pas abandoné la Lutte des Classes, qui dresse les uns contre les autres, les Ouvriers contre les Patrons", critiqua-t-il vis a vis certains Syndicats politisés.


    - Certes, "il n'y a pas de Démocratie sans Liberté Syndicale", (p.ex. en Turquie, vu aussi les critiques que les organismes chargés de contrôler les violations de la Charte Sociale du pan-européen Conseil de l'Europe ont fréquement adressé au Gouvernement Turc, en vain)... Mais, "dans une Société comme la nôtre, ... le Dialogue Social est ... indispensable", car "tout le Monde a quelque chose à Gagner dans la Discussion", ou "à apprendre de celui qui a un point de vue différent, une expérience differente", ainsi qu'" à l' effort pour trouver un Accord",  Sarkozy plaida.


    => - "Sans doute, faut-il réflechir à d' Autres Formes de Négociation Colléctive, à d'autres formes de travailler ensemble, comme célà se faisait jadis, quand Jean Monnet et le Général de Gaulle mettaient en avant l' ardente obligation du Plan", et le "Rôle Décisive qu'ont joué les Partenaires Sociaux dans la Reconstruction de l' Après-Guerre et dans les Trente Glorieuses (anneés)" 1945 - 1975, Sarkozy a proposé.


    - Mais, "pour inventer un nouveau modèle social", capable d'"affronter la Mondialisation", de façon "qui premettra .. de rééditer, au XXIème siècle, l'Exploit des 30 Glorieuses" années de croissance durable,  "Toutes les Forces Vives ...doivent être Mobilisées. Pour faire face", nous dévons "être Soudés, .... être Unis, ... se Rassembler" .. "Il n'y aura pas d'Avenir pour les Salariés, .. pour nôtre Protection Sociale, si la France" et l'Europe "s'affaiblit, .. s'appuvrit, .... décroche", a-t-il averti. Car "on ne peut pas séparer le destin de chacun, du destin de Tous. Il n'y a pas d'un côté des destins Individuels, et de l'autre, le destin de la France" et de l'Europe : "Les deux sont liés".


    - "Laissez les Partis", lanca-t-il à ces "Syndicats" qui avaient rompu leur Neutralité politique pour prendre explicitement parti dans la campagne Electorale. "Ceux qui vous soutenez ne vous le rendront pas", les a-t-il averti, (ramenant inévitablement à la mémoire p.ex. de l'inoubliable tragédie des syndicats d'ouvriers de l'industrie Siderurgique qui avaient longuement combatu pour l'élection de l'ex-Président "Socialiste" Mitterand, avant de Le voir annoncé, moins d'un an après son élection, que pratiquement tous leurs Usines séraient condamnés !). "Vôtre Rôle n'est pas de faire de la Politique", "ni de défendre une Idéologie", mais "de Déféndre les Salariés, ...leur Travail". Car, "dans la République, ce ne sont pas les Syndicats qui gouvernent, .. (et) .. qui font la Loi". "C'est le Gouvernement .. (et) ... le Parlement... C'est le Peuple qui décide. ... (et) ... quant il y a Blocage, on donne la Parole au Peuple".


    - Par contre, "remplissez la Mission qui est la vôtre dans une Démocratie, .. dans la République, en regardant le Monde tel qu'il est, en construisant l' Avénir sur des Réalités", car, "dans un Monde qui bouge autant, il n'est pas possible de rester immobiles : Si nous voulons que rien ne change, quand tout change autour de nous, nous perdons tout". Autrement, "c'est Tromper (et) Mentir aux Salariés que de leur faire croire que l'on peut faire l' économie du changement", en leur faisant "prendre un Risque Enorme" : "Régardez ce qui arrive aux pays qui n'ont pas fait, à Temps, les Changements Nécessaires, qui n'ont pas pris .. les Décisions qui s'imposaient. Régardez ce qui se passe en Grèce et en Espagne ! A la fin, c'est le Travail qui paye. Régardez l' explosion du Chômage, la Baisse des Salaires, la Baisse des Retraites ! Qui veut cela pour la France" et le reste de l'Europe ? "Qui veut cela pour" nos "Salariés ? .... pour les Retraités qui ont travaillé toute leur vie ?", s'est-il interrogé, au milieu des acclamations d'une foule immense.

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    => Mais, "je me batrais jusqu' à la dernière seconde de la dernière minute pour un Nouveau Modèle Social", où "les Syndicats, au lieu d'être un force de Conservation, seront une force de Transformation sociale, .. où la Négociation Collective descendra jusque danss l' Entreprise, où il sera Possible, avec l' Accord de tous, de Déroger aux Règles Générales, quand le Carnet de Commandes de l Entreprises l'éxigera", car "l'Entreprise ne sera plus mise en Difficulté simplement parce que les Règles Générales seront Inadaptées à son Cas Particulier", mais "les Rapports sociaux dans l' entreprise seron Différents, .. le Rôle des Syndicats dans l' Economie sera Différent, .. il y aura davantage de Souplesse, mais .. Négociée; qui permettra d'Eviter bien des Faillites, bien des Licenciements, bien des Conflits, bien des Souffrances". Car "chacun prendra ses Responsabilités, et on se fera Confiance", ajouta-t-il.


    - "Mes amis, si nous avons pris le Risque de nous rassembler (pour la 1ère fois dans l' Histoire des campagnes d' Elections Politiques) aujourd'hui", cad. le 1er Mai, (fête du Travail), "c'est parce que, dans les Choix que nous ferons pour l' Avénir, la question du Travail est Centrale", puisque c'est par le Travail que nous Sortirons de la Crise, .. que nous Rembouresons nos Dettes, .... nous retrouverons le chémin de la Croissance, .. nous garantirons le Pouvoir d' Achat. C'est par le Travail et par le Mérite que nous pourrons reprendre la Maîtrise de notre Destin individuel et Collectif", expliqua-t-il.

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    => A cet égard, "Nous n' avons Pas d' Ennemis, nous n' avons Pas d' Adversaires", car "nous avons la France" et l' Europe "au Coeur : Voilà le Message de la place de Trocadero !",


s'exclama Nicolas Sarkozy, avancant bien au-délà de son projet de texte, vivement acclamé par le Peuple, cette journée symbolique, qui lui inspira certaines parmi les meilleurs Synthèses orales de la pensée qu'il a développée tout au long de cette campagne de 2012.


    Comme le Général de Gaulle avait dit au Peuple le 1er mai 1950 à Bagatelle : - "Travailleurs ! C'est avec vous que je veux bâtir la France" et l' Europe "Nouvelle. Quand, .. ensemble, nous aurons Gagné la partie, en dépit des excitations des Destructeurs et des intrigues des Diviseurs, on apercevra, tout à coup, Une nation Joyeuse et Rassemblée, où... vous aurez votre Digne place. Alors, on verra sortir, des voiles qui le cache encore, le Visage Radieux de la France" et de l'Europe, cita Sarkozy, comme le texte "qui exprime mieux (sa) pensée, en cet instant où se joue le Destin" de la France et de l'Europe en effet.

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    L' inscription en or sur le Palais de Tokyo, en face de la Tour de TV metallique où se trouvait "EuroFora", à l' avant-centre de la place du Trocoadero, opportunement disait : -Des"Choses Rares ou Belles, ici savamment Assemblées, instruisent l'oeil à régarder, comme jamais encore vues, toutes choses qui sont au Monde". Surtout lorsqu'on y ajoute oralement quelques Synthèses brillantes qui expriment l' Essentiel, comme Sarkozy a fait en ce moment crucial, à son dernier grand discours avant ce vote crucial.      


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Draghi responds positively to Sarkozy call for New Growth model including ECB

Written by ACM
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

 

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Just 10 Days after Sarkozy's call to "open the Debate" for "a New Growth model" including a more active role for the European Central Bank, on April 15's Giant Popular gathering at Paris' biggest square, Concorde, (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from the spot : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/sarkozyconcordecalloneurobank.html ), and the 1st week after all EU Parliament's concerned Groups' Presidents, throughout the Political spectrum, speaking to "EuroFora" in Strasbourg on that call, despite a variety of views, they welcomed and nobody rejected Sarkozy's ECB idea, ( http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/euparliamentleadersonsarkozyecbidea.html ) finally, its President, Draghi, responded positively at a Hearing in Brussels by EU Parliament's Economic/Financial affairs Committee  :


- "Progress .. made in many (€uroArea) Countries" recently on "Determined Policy Actions to address major Weaknesses in the Fiscal, Financial and Structural domains", now "Need to be complemented by Growth-enhancing Structural Reforms to facilitate Enterpeneurial activities, the start of New Firms and Job Creation. Here, Governments should be More Ambitious", Draghi stressed from the outset, at his landmark speech to MEPs.


=> - "We need to actively step up our reflections around the Long-term Vision for Europe, as we have done in the Past at other Defining Moments in the History of or union", he added, raising the point Higher.


>>> "Let's project a Long-Term Vision for the Future, as it has been done before, reminding those EU People who, 15 Years earlier, had established a Path" towards the Common Market, the Common Currency, and recently the Economic Governance (notoriously hammered out mainly by Sarkozy and Merkel, together with their €uroArea allies, during August 2011 - March 2012).


=> - "Let's Open the Debate on a new Vision for the Long-term Future" of €uroArea, Draghi concluded, using almost similar terms with Sarkozy..

 

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ECB already had recently started to take some  Strong and "Effective", "Non-Standard" Measures, as Draghi called them, in order "to allow us some Space about Liquidities", and "Gain (perious) Time" in order to prepare €uroArea's way out of the Global Crisis  : - Imagine what would be, otherwise, the situation if we hadn't injected 2 times 500 Billions € while many Hundreds of Sovereign Bonds were arriving at maturity in the beginning of 2012, he replied to MEPs' questions..

- But, even if we (ECB) may provode Liquidities, nevertheless, "we cannot replace the lack of Capital, nor of Demand", he critically observed. However, "Now", the "Problem" that we (€uroArea) face is that Demand is Weak", he dénounced.


- However, "Demand built on Debt is Unsustainable", and, therefore, "should be avoided", ECB's Chief warned, obviously criticising as inadequate to modern, Globalized Economy, the old-fashioned recipes repeated by "Socialist" candidate Hollande, etc.


- "We have to create Market Conditions, so that Banks can find themselves" the required Funds, Draghi pointed out, instead.


 - ECB's Head expressed "Confidence" that the €uroArea's Political "Actors will find a Common plan for the sake  of Europe : Let's see what Actors will do".


- "It's difficult to anticipate, but EuroArea needs, in order to be Credible, both STABILITY ("of Prices and Fiscal", i.e. No Inflation, Nor Debt), and GROWTH : If we don't have these elements, all of them, then, there is No Credibility", he warned.


- But "ECB's" main, official "Task is not to directly boost Growth, but, rather, to keep Price Stabiity, and, through that, we (ECB) contribute to Growth", Draghi carefully observed. Because, "Growth depends also from many other things and Actors, (such as, f.ex. Corporates, States, etc)", he added.


- "It's not an easy question, because it  involves Political Outcomes which have not developed yet fully, and Political Decisions which have not yet been taken", Draghi interestingly observed, (as if an Historic Proces was still in the Middle of the road)...


=> "What matters Now, most of all, is to have a kind of "Growth Compact", (i.e. a Strategy with a condensated mix containing a series of coherent, concrete Measures), which was, in fact, already Anticipated by the "Six Pack", the "Fiscal Compact", a.o.  measures recently adopted by €uroArea's Heads of State/Government, Draghi pointed out, (as if what he had in mind was a development almost flowing from recent advances : Comp. "EuroFora"s relevant 2010 - 2012  NewsReports.


 - And "what we need Now, is to Move Forward with a European SuperVision", Draghi stressed.


>>> - In particular, "we won't get Growth just like this". In fact, Growth is "led by Global Demand", ECB's New Chief pointed out.


>>> + And, already, indeed, "our (€uroArea's) Exports are Increasing, getting Stronger", he observed, (given also recent Data which reveal a crystal-clear and apparently promissing Amelioration of €uroArea's Exports boosted, and a growing Positive Balance of Payments and Foreign Trade f.ex. vis a vis the USA, but also China, etc., (comp. also relevant "EuroFora"s previous NewsReports).


=> Indeed, "Growth won't come simply through Structural Reforms : Some of them shall Stimulate a Short-Term Growth. But what we need from them is to come up with something more, which will stimulate also Medium and Long-Term Growth", he warned.


>>> - And this will come as a Result of Global Demand", for which "we (€uroArea) need to put Risk Aversion of potential Investors elsewhere : We need  to create a Climate of Trust and Credibility", Draghi highlighted in conclusion, obviously evoking the Specific €uroArea Strategy out of the Global Crisis, which notoriously focuses on Investment, Innovation and Competitiveness, in order to win New Markets in the World, insted of a more traditional "Mix" by U.S. President Obama's policy which is at least partly based also on classical, Debt-driven artificial stimulation of internal "Demand" too : See previous, relevant "EuroFora's NewsReports.


I.e., Draghi's positive response to Sarkozy's call for a "New Model of Growth", i,n his landmark Concord square speech (See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from the spot), clearly rejects the old and vague references made by "Socialist" candidate Hollande to a usual, classical, Internal Demand, (and, therefore, risking to Dangerously push also Inflation, Debt, Trade Deficit, etc.), i.e. somehing to avoid, in order, on the contrary, to focus on boosting  Innovative Investment and ameliorating Competitiveness, in order to win in the Post-Crisis Global Competition.

+ This "fits" even with Sarkozy's recent call for the EU to start asking from the USA and other big Foreign partners a "Reciprocity", f.ex. in Public Procurements, for SMEs, etc., (See "EuroFora"'s NewsReports from Villepinte and from Concorde speeches, etc), as well as his will to condemn "Social and/or Environmental Dumping" by some other Foreign Competitors who don't respect even elementary Social Rights prescribed by the ILO, (including, f.ex. Childrens' work, etc), and/or are grossly Polluting Earth's Atmosphere, risking to affect Climate etc., and/or commit blatant violations of Food Security rules, etc., that, on the contrary, European Businesses have to respect, (a Sarkozy "leit-motiv" since his landmark 2009 Speech at Urmatt : See "EuroFora"s NewsReport from the spot, throughout the G-20 Summit at Cannes, November 2011 : See "EuroFora"s relevant NewsReports from Paris and Cannes, as well as since Villepinte, 3/2012, etc), since they are all focused on Foreign Trade-oriented (or exposed) European production.

=> It's therefore astonishing to see that some shady commentators, arbitrarily claimed that Draghi's April 25 prompt reply to Sarkozy's April 15 call in Concord square (comp. Supra), might, on the contrary, be a ...delayed adoption of the "Socialist" candidate Hollande's previously repeated, but vague claims about "Growth" in general, (which had been made since a Long time ago, and were focused much more on Classical Keynisianism, dating back from before the 2nd World, than on a new recipe fit to today's Globalized Economy, so that they aimed mainly on the usual stimulation of internal Demand, than on winning Foreign Competition and penetrating in new World Markets). Such an obvious Mediatic Manipulation is worthless of a real, serious and healthy European Press which would respect at least elementary Deontological principles...

+ Considering that German Chancellor Angie Merkel has already endorsed CEB's recent, succesful interventions, and has already spoken, together with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and other €uroArea leaders about the obvious need to start now, after Fiscal Stabilisation Measures were adopted and €uro's Monetary stabilization, to speak more and more about Growth, while the German Government reportedly doesn't see at all Draghis' statements with a blind eye, but rather with a careful but real interest, if any new proposals for EU Growth were, eventually, drafted, f.ex. by Barroso or Van Rompuy, etc., (both ChristianDemocrat/EPP well-known members), in another Timely positive Response to Sarkozy's April 15th call for a "New Model of Growth",  in line with the current €uroArea's Sarkozy-Merkel proposed Startegy (comp. Supra), it would certainly be ridiculous to eventually claim attributing them to any "Socialist" candidate by one or another unscrupulous Media, (which have notoriously lost People's trust recently with such gross blunders)....

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Hollande va relancer l'adhésion Turque à l'UE, Sarkozy s'oppose. Les Médias escamotent.Le PS esquive

Written by ACM
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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*Cernay/Angelo Marcopolo/- Les mêmes jours qu'il a été révélé que le candidat "Socialiste" aux élections françaises, Hollande, veut relancer l' adhésion de la Turquie dans l' Union Européenne, le President de la France, Nicolas Sarkozy, a clairement confirmé, même par écrit, son opposition, mais la plupart de la Presse, (déjà accusée pour distordre la vérité et/ou de traiter inégalement les candidats aux éléctions présidentielles du 6 mai), persiste curieusement d'escamoter, voire censurer ce débat si important, qui avait joué un rôle crucial pour la victoire de Sarkozy et de Merkel aux élections nationales de 2007 et 2009, respectivement, ainsi qu'aux dernières élections européennes de juin 2009 d'où est issue la composition politique actuelle du Parlement Européen jusqu'à 2014.

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Par une curieuse coincidence, ces évenements exceptionels dans cette campagne longue de plusieurs mois, ont fait surface presque le même jour que Sarkozy a été invité pour parler dans la région de Strasbourg, à Cernay, où, ensemble avec le Prémier Ministre Fillon, ils ont commencé leurs discours précisement en dénonceant une série d'aggressions personelles et une partialité scandaleuse de la plupart des Médias de l' establishment pendant le 1er tour des élections, qui a, malgré tout, révelé une quasi-Egalité de votes déjà récus par les 2 principaux candidats (situés entre 27+ et 28+ %), mais une réserve potentielle en transferts de votes probables entre les deux tours beaucoup plus grande en faveur de Sarkozy, que pour Hollande, dans une proportion d'environ 30 % contre 15%, laissant penser que, normalement, le Président sortant devrait gagner au 2e tour sans problème, (surtout s'il développait davantage sa Stratégie politique victorieuse de 2007 et 2009)...

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Dépuis le début de cette sémaine, on avait été surpris d'apprendre que le Candidat "Socialiste" Hollande allait rélancer les négociations, actuellement vacillantes, presqu'en impasse, entre la Turquie et l' Union Européenne, car, contrairement à Sarkozy, il croyait que la Turquie était  un pays européen et qu'il pourrait dévenir capable d'entrer dans l'UE, et que, à cette fin, "il allait débloquer les 5 chapitres des négociations qui avaient été gélés par Sarkozy", dépuis sa victoire électorale de 2007, et suite aux 3 "Non" aux EuroReferendum en France, aux Pays Bas et en Irlande, notoirement surtout en raison d'un réfus majoritaire des Citoyens Européens de se voir imposer l'entrée d' Ankara en Europe.

Cette révélation était attribuée au plus haut niveau : Au Directeur de Campagne d' Hollande, l' experimenté ex-Ministre pour affaires Européennes au Gouvernement de l'ex-Prémier Ministre "Socialiste" Jospin, et ex-vice-Président du Parlement Européen, Pierre Moscovici, (cité par un article publié en Anglais au journal pro-Gouvernemental Turc "Zaman" par l' ex-Président de la Commission EU - Turquie, ex-Chef du Group des "Verts", ex-EuroDéputé Hollandais, Joost Lagendijk).


Une telle mutation  affecterait des domaines d'action importants, considerés comme synonymes à l' Adhésion à l'UE, tels que la Participation de la Turquie dans les Institutions de l' Union Européenne, la circulation des populations, Le Budget et les Finances de l'UE, les Aides Regionales et Structurelles pour la Cohésion, l' Agriculture et la Politique Economique et Monétaire, etc.


Leur ré-ouverture par Hollande aurait comme effet de sortir les négotiations UE - Turquie de l' impasse actuelle, où Ankara ne trouve presque plus quel chapitre ouvrir dans une négociation qui coûte à l' UE près d' 1 Milliard € chaque année, même pendant cette période de Crise Economique et Financière suivie de diverses Restrictions de crédit à l'UE et dans la plupart de ses Etats-Membres, et tandis que l'Europe n'a même plus de quoi payer son plus important programme Spatial, celui de GMES ("Global Monitoring for Environment and Security), qui coûte, par coincidence, presque autant : envrion 850 Millions € par an, (V. :  http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/spaceprogramhreatenedyreductionofcostsequaltoturkey.html), renforcant le camp de ceux qui estiment que ces négociations devraient cesser, être suspendues, réduire leur coût financier, et/ou se transformer explicitement en pourparlers uniquement afin de conclure un "Partenariat Priviliegié", et non plus  une Adhésion. Ainsi, même si Hollande a declaré à "EuroFora" qu'à son avis "la Turquie ne remplit pas les conditions pour adhérer dans l'UE, pour le moment", (V. publication de mars 2012), rien n'exclut qu'il puisse, soudain, prétendre que ces conditions auraient été remplies plus tard, et même s'il aurait, dit-on, promis que cela ne se ferait pendant les prochains 5 ans, néanmois, il n'existe plus, (dépuis l' abolition du "Référendum" mis à cette fin à la Constitution par l'ex-président Chirac) aucune guarantie s'il changeait, éventuellement, d'avis.  


En tout cas, entre-temps, Ankara pourrait aussi arracher davantage de concessions à l'UE, si elle récommencait de la considérer comme une "Candidate à l' Adhésion", selon la préference d Hollande, et non pas simplement comme un partenaire dans une négociation à fin incertain, qui pourrait se conclure non pas avec une adhésion, mais avec un partenariat privilegié, selon la position officielle de l'UE dépuis les victoires électorales de Sarkozy en 2007 et de Merkel en 2009, p.ex. en facilitant ou même en supprimant les "Visas" pour des Millions d' emigrés Turcs, etc.

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Contre ces affirmations d' Hollande, le Président Sarkozy a publié, le jour qu'il arrivait dans la région de Strasbourg, à Cernay, sa "Profession de Foi" pour l'élection de 2012 à 2016, dans laquelle il confirme, aussi par écrit, que son "Choix est Clair : la Turquie n'a pas vocation à entrer dans l' Union européenne" !


Ce rappel se fait au même paragraphe qui parle de la Réforme du système Shengen "pour retrouver la Maitrise des .. Frontières Extérieures" de l' UE, (v. précedentes publications d'"EuroFora", de Villepinte, Nancy, etc), afin de lutter contre une immigration illégale massive, traffic des êtres humains, etc., les 90% duquel s'opére à partir de la frontière de la Turquie, comme ils ont dénoncé plusieurs eurodéputés lors des débats à la Plenière du Parlement Européen la semaine dernière à Strasbourg.


Il est placé juste avant les mentions faites à l' "Identité" et les "Valeurs" de la France et de l' Europe par Sarkozy dans divers de ses discours de 2007, et plus recemment en avril 2012, surtout à partir de celui qui fût consacré à "une France forte dans une Europe forte", le 22/4/2012 à Strasbourg, peu après le Massacre monstrueux de 3 Enfants et leur Père à Toulouse, suite à celui de 3 jeune soldats français desarmés, par un lache Terrorisme évoqué par ce même journal pro-Gouvernemental Turc "Zaman", ...non pas pour condamner ce Crime odieux, mais, par contre, pour diffamer le President de la France pour "bloquer l'adhésion de la Turquie dans l'UE", comme il disait, insultant grossièrement la France et l' Europe toute entière, et miroitant même des pires ménaces contre eux si l'on osérait parler de "Civilisation", "Histoire", "identité",  et "Valeurs" Européens... (v : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/toulousechildrenmassacreandeurope.html).

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    >>> "Nous (UE) avons fait une Erreur immense, une grave erreur, en n' acceptant pas de reconnaître, dans la Constitution Européenne (réjettée par EuroReferenda en France, Pays bas et Irlande, entre 2005-2007, notoirement en raison surtout de la ménace d'entrée de la Turquie dans l'UE), l' Identité Chrétienne de la France et de l' Europe !", declara, pour la 1ère fois, aujourd'hui à Cerney, Nicolas Sarkozy, vivement applaudi par le peuple.

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     - "Quant on nie son identité, on ne peut pas aimer les autres. Quant on nie d'où on vient, on ne peut pas dire à ses enfants où il faut aller. En niant les Racines Chrétiennes de la France et de l' Europe, ce n'est pas une Eglise qu'on renie, c'est l' Histoire .. Nous ne sommes pas les héritiers d'une page blanche !"


    Nous voulons dire à ces Réfugiés Arméniens qui sont vénus sauver leurs vies chez nous, fuyant le pire Génocide du siècle (en ex empire Ottoman Turc) : -"Nous sommes de vos côtés, pas du côté des Négationistes du génocide" (Gouvernements Turcs actuels, qui ont osé même tenter d'interferer dans la ve interne de pays Européens la-dessus).


Ca ne veut pas dire que la France est seulement chrétienne, mais on ne peut pas oublier nôtre Histoire, et c'est cela que nous disent nos citoyens. Protéger nos Valeurs : voilà les vrais enjeux de cette election, conclua Sarkozy, applaudi par le peuple.

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Sarkozy, après avoir été brillament élu en 2007, en réussissant d'attirer au 2e Tour de l' Election aussi bien ceux qui votaient pour le Centriste Bayrou et ceux qui avaient vote pour le Droitier Le Pen, ainsi que certains indépedants, voire ex-"Socialistes", sous le thème centrale du réfus du People Français à se faire imposer l' entrée controversée et impopulaire de la Turquie dans l'UE, avait initialement promis de stopper ce processus, avant d'accepter, finalement, un compromis avec le Président de la Commission des Bruxelles, Barroso, consistant de 2 élements : 1) le réfus de la France d'ouvrir les 5 Chapitres précités aux Négociations avec la Turquie, et 2) un Débat pan-européen sur l' Avénir de l'Europe, (qui offrirait, justement, à tous les 500 Millions de Citoyens Européens, ainsi qu' à leurs leaders politiques, pour la 1ère fois, une occasion à debattre démocratiquement, sur la question à savoir quelle genre d' Europe voulaient-t-ils bâtir pour l'avénir, avec quelle identité, quels valeurs, quelle civilisation, quels frontières, etc., ce qui incluait, logiquement, aussi leur réponse au problème posé par la Turquie).


Tandis que la 1ère condition poséé dès 2007 par Sarkozy pour laisser les négociations UE - Turquie continuer (désormais comme "Open-ended process", cad. comme un processus l' aboutissement duquel reste "ouvert" à diverses possibilités, pas forcement l'adhésion, mais peut-être un "Parténariat privilegié", etc, selon ce qui fût desormais établi comme la formule officielle dans l'UE), fût respectée, par contre, la 2ème - malgré un appui Populaire confirmé, aussi bien en Allemagne qu'en France, lors des Elections Européennes de 2009 - fût notoirement, grossierement  sabordée par quelques manoeuvres Bureaucratiques scandaleusement anti-démocratiques, comme il fût révelé seulement en 2010 : V. la publication d' "EuroFora" de février 2010, : http://www.eurofora.net/newsflashes/news/colmarbrussels.html ). Pourtant, Sarkozy venait juste de commencer à parler ouvertement sur ces questions d' "identité", "Histoire", "Civilisation", "Valeurs", etc., pour la France et l' Europe, de suite après ledit Crime Monstrueux, auquel il a réagi dans son discours du 22 avril 2012 à Strasbourg, ainsi qu'ensuite à Nancy, Nice, etc., tandis qu'entre temps, il a pu trouver et/ou inspirer beaucoup plus d' alliés politiques en ce sens en divers partic politiques, gouvernements ou leaders en Allemagne, Autriche, Pays bas, Bélgique, même au Royaume Uni, Bulgarie, Hongrie, etc. et autres pays européens, que ce qu'il en avait dans le passé (avant 2007).
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    - Et c'est justement en faisant appel à "l' ininfluencable, indecourageable, l' indomptable, inebranlable Peuple" de la France que Sarkozy a commencé son discours, aujourd'hui à Cernay, répondant à l' invitation de militants politiques de la région de Strsbourg, Alsace, qui venaient juste de lui donner une large Majorité de votes au 1er tour des élections 2012, bien au-délà des prognostiques, largement dépassés, de la plupart des sondages...           

        
    - "Les scénarios ecrits d'avance ne resistent pas à la Liberté du Peuple français. ... Les Citoyens ne sont pas des pions, qu'on deplace sur un damier. ... Chaque français possède en lui la plus belle des vertus : L' indépendance de l' esprit : J'en appelle à cette indépendance de l'esprit pour briser le mur du conformisme qu'on voudrait ériger autour de ce scrutin.... J' invite à la table de la République, l' indépendance de l' esprit, pour dechirer le voile des caricatures qu inous étouffe dépuis trop longtemps. ... Indépendance de l' esprit face au bombardement intensif dont Nicolas Sarkozy a été la cible durant tout le quinquennat. Conformisme et indigne, cette vulgaire chasse au President", dénonca au préalable le Prémier Ministre François Fillon, largement applaudi sur cette critique de la plupart des Médias "établis" dépuis l' époque de près de 20 années de Gouvernements "Socialistes" (1981 - 2002), suivis de 5 ans de soi-disant "support" de quelques "Socialistes" à l' ex-President Chirac face à l' extreme droite de Jean-Marie Le Pen au 2e tour de 2002, face à seulement 4,5 ans d' un Sarkozy qui a notoirement érigé comme principe général de choisir d'abord ceux qui paraissent être les plus compétents et honnets, sans faire aucune "chasse aux sorcières" politicienne, ni aux Médias, ni ailleurs.


- "La Question qui nous est posée est brutale, mais limpide : dans 10 ans, la France et l' Europe, seront-elles en mésure d' influer sur le cours du Monde, où bien sortiront-elles de l' Histoire ?". A cet égard, "songe, l' espoir de rénegocier les Traités Européens !", Fillon a-t-il averti, s'agissant de la démande du candidat "Socialiste" Hollande de re-négocier le nouveau Traité sur l' EuroArea, decidé en décembre 2011 et signé en mars 2012 par les Chefs d' Etat/Gouvernement de 25 pays européens aux Sommets de Bruxelles, (v. publications afférentes d' "EuroFora" de Bruxelles en 12/2011 et 1/2012, ainsi qu' update du 3/2012).

+  "Nous sommes une nation de Citoyens, pas une nations où chaque Communaute fait passer ses traditions et ses coutumes avant les lois de la Republique !". "Nous sommes une nation d' Integration, pas une nation Mosaique. Voila pourquoi nous sommes opposés au Vote des Etrangers (Non-Européens) aux Elections Locales proposé par les "Socialistes", car la Citoyenneté ne se découpe pas en tranches", et, autrement, ca risque de provoquer du Communautarisme, ajouta Fillon, soulignant quelques points de Cohésion sociale, contre l' Appartheid des Ghettos culturels, recemment denoncé aussi par la chancelière Allémande Angie Merkel et même le Prémier Ministre Britanique David Cameron, mais  notoirement proné par quelques-uns, y compris par certains groups d' immigrés manifestement manipulés de l'étranger par le Gouvernement Turc, (y compris avec quelques "Imams" nommés par .. le Gouvernment d' Ankara, au lieu d'être indépendants comme dans toutes les autres communautés réligieuses du Monde entier), etc.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
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- Sarkozy a proposé "3 Débats", (sur l' Economie, les questions Sociales, et l' International, y compris l' Europe), mais Hollande a réfusé, denonca, entre-temps, le Secretaire Général du parti majoritaire au pouvoir, UMP, Jean-François Copé, décrivant, ensuite, comment il a dû insister et essayer, encore et encore, jusqu'à ce qu', enfin, son homologue du parti "Socialiste", Martine Aubry, daigne répondre vraiment à des questions telles que l' attribution du droit de vote aux étrangers non-européens pour les élections locales, etc.

=> - "Ils réfusent de répondre sur les Grandes Questions ! Ils réfusent les Débats !", denonca aussi, auparavant, le Président de la Région de Strasbourg, Alsace, Philippe Richert.


    >>> Et ils veulent démanteler nos Usines capables à produire de l' Energie Nucléaire, jettant dehors des milliers de travailleurs, comme ici, en Alsace, à Fessenheim, pour nous obliger de courrir chercher de l' Energie loin ailleurs, jusqu' à .. Bakou !", a-t-il critiqué Richet, faisant manifestement réference à l'acharnement de certains réseaux (surtout "Socialistes", mais pas seulement) d' imposer, à tout prix, un vieux projet d' oleo-gazoduc et pipeline qui traverse la Turquie, tout en étant trop longue, trop cher, et trop dangereux (traversant conflits sanglants, régions sismiques, "blackmails" politiques, etc).


    - En effet, ils (le candidat "Socialiste"), jouent à la carte électoraliste (promesse donné aux Verts, en echange de leurs voix au 2e tour), des centaines, des milliers de nos Ouvriers, nos Chercheurs qui travaillent pour l' Indépendance (Energetique) de la France" et de l'UE, ajouta aussi Copé, au sujet de l' Energie Nucléaire.


    - "M. Hollande a vendu honteusement les Ouvriers du Fessenheim", denonca aussi, ensuite, Sarkozy.
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    - "On se trouve devant un Choix Historique, où l'on n' a pas du droit à l'erreur", martela Sarkozy dès le début de son discours, exprimant "l' Emotion" de nous tous, lorsqu'on vous voit, de plus en plus nombreux, jour et nuit, Resister au Mensonge,  à la Calomnie, aux Spécialistes, aux Observateurs, aux Sondeurs, aux Predicateurs, à tous ceux qui se sont trompés lamentablement" :


    P.ex. ils prétendaient que cette campagne n' interessait pas les gens, et, pourtant, vous avez été plus de 80%  à voter, donnant un lesson de Civisme, Sarkozy denonca, largement applaudi.


    - Car "eux, ils voulaient presenter l' Addition (des leurs propositions) seulement après les Elections", Mais, moi je veux la Transparence,  la Clarté'; souligna Sarkozy.


    - Car, comme Mme Aubry avait dit elle-même lors des Primaires" (entre divers candidats "socialistes"), "quant il est Floue, il y a un Loup !". Et "ici, il n'y a pas 1 mais plusieurs Loups", avertit-il    

                        
    + "Je n'accepte pas qu'on fasse une lesson de la morale, contre des français qui souffrent (à certains banlieux), par ceux qui vivent dans des quartiers sans problèmes, et qui mettent leurs enfants dans des Ecoles où il n'y a aucun problème", critiqua Sarkozy.


    - "En Démocratie, ca se passe aussi d'en bas, vers le haut : Ce n'est pas seulement les Candidats qui parlent, et le Peuple qui écoute; mais, aussi, quant le Peuple s'exprime les candidats doivent l' écouter !", il ajouta, applaudi.


    - Mais, "au lieu d' écouter ces electeurs, de les comprendre", par contre, "ils (Hollande et Aubry), les ont meprisé, les ont traiter des "Populistes", il denonca.


    - "Je ne cautione pas tous ces choix. Mais nous devons entendre ce cri. Il faut ténir compte. Et il faut prendre des engagements précis, et de répondre à leurs questions", pour que ces gens puissent se retrouver, qu'ils puissent trouver des reponses à l' angoisse qu'ils ont exprimés. Par contre, si on leur dit : - "Vous n' êtes pas de bons Citoyens ! Vous avez tort !". Et, alors, la prochaine fois, ils font plus. Car, s'ils ont fait un tel vote, (p.ex. près de 20% pour la Droitière Marine Le Pen, etc), c'est pour les entendre".


    >>> - "Et pas seulement en France, mais dans tous les Pays Démocratiques", Sarkozy conclua, manifestement montrant vers toute l' Europe. et bien au-délà.  


    - "Parcequ'il y a beaucoup de gens qui disent, que ca ne peut plus durer comme ca. Le Monde, tel qu'on le construit, nous n'en voulons pas ! Nous voulons garder nôtre Mode de Vie. Nous voulons garder nos Territoires. Nous voulons garder Nos Valeurs. Et nous voulons transmettre à nos Enfants les Valeurs que nos Parents nous ont transmises. Voilà ce qu'ils ont voulu nous dire. Ils l'ont, peut-être dit mal, à travers. Mais on ne peut pas leur reprocher d'avoir dit cela", Sarkozy conclua.


    - Ainsi, "au soir du 1er tour, justa à voir le visage d' un certain nombre des Observateurs, des Commentateurs, .. visiblement, la réponse du Peuple n' était pas celle-là qu'ils attendait qu'elle fût", il ironisa.


     - "Parce que c'est ... un People Libre, indomptable : Restez Français ! Restez Libres ! Restez Indomptables !"


    - "Vous voulez garder votre mode de vie. Vous considerez qu'il n'y a pas assez de Frontières, qu'on ne parle pas assez de Nation, d' identité, des Valeurs".


Alors, "j'ai pris quelques engagements : Vous ne voulez pas le Vote des Etrangers. Je me sui engagé sur la diminition par deux du nombre des etrangers qui entreront en France, et j'ai mis certaines Conditions : P.ex. Pas d' Allocations (Sociales) si l'on ne côtise pas pendant 5 ans" au moins. Pas de RSA sur les cas présents pendant 10 ans. Et l' apprentissage du Francais avant-même de rentrer sur le territoire de la République", comme gage élémentaire de volonté et capacité d' Integration.
        
    + "Toute ma vie je pensait que le Travail", surtout "par l' effort, par le mérite", " c'est une Valeur d' Emancipation : C'est le Chomage qui est une Alienation". Ainsi, "le 1er Mai n'a pas été privatisé par M. Hollande !", ironisa-t-il face aux prétentions de certains "Socialistes" d' empêcher la Liberté de manifester le jour du 1er Mai..


    Tout emploi est un travail qui doit être respecté. Mais on ne peut pas ne pas tenir compte du fait qu'il y en a certains travailleurs, comme p.ex. les Ouvriers aux Usines, les petits-moyens entrepreneurs, les Agriculteurs, Artisans, Commercants, etc., qui sont plus exposés que d'autres aux aléas de la Crise Mondiale, qui fait que, lorsqu'il n'y a plus de marché pour ces produits, quant une production est délocalisée, alors, les salaires diminuent ou même le chomage, total ou partiel ménace, (ce qui represente plus de 22 Millions de gens),  tandis que d'autres, qui ont un Statut (p.ex. de fonctionaire du Secteur Public, etc) seront, en tout cas payés, car l' Etat ne fait pas faillite, et ne perdront, normalement jamais leur travail, qui est aussi respectable et doit être aussi aidé, observa-t-il, sociologiquement.


    Dans la crise, nous avons déjà protégé les fonctionaires, qui n'ont pas perdu 1 centime de leur salaire, alors que d'autres, ceux qui travaillent aux entreprises, ils ont été plus exposés, nota-t-il.


    Au passé, une mauvaise habitude était pour les gouvernements de céder toujours seulement à ceux qui avaient plus de pouvoir pour "bloquer" le pays.   

 >>> Mais, aujourd'hui, devant la Crise Mondiale, je prefere consacrer l' argent disponible plus pour la Recherche, l' Innovation et la Formation professionelle et/ou l' emploi de ceux qui sont le plus exposés à la Concurrence Mondiale, plutôt que d'embaucher des dizaines de milliers de fonctionaires de plus par un Etat qui n'a pas de quoi payer une telle augmentation des dépenses publiques, Sarkozy anonca.


    "Le travail ce qu'il vous a permis de vous en sortir", de "compter sur votre effort, votre mérite". Ce n'est pas être cupide, n'est pas être intéressé par l'argent", ajouta-t-il, (probablement aussi à l'adresse de ceux qui accomplissent un oeuvre important et utile en société, parfois avec beaucoup de durs efforts et sacrifices, investissant parfois des rares connaissances, experiences et capacités, tandis que d'autres empochent dans certains cas des salaires non-mérités dans quelques postes de planqués pour ne faire presque rien qui vaille, p.ex. en cas de clientelisme, corruption et/ou népotisme,  comme p.ex. notoirement dans plusieurs places du Secteur Public dans la Grèce de 1980-2010 et ailleurs)..


    Mais, même le patrimoine familial  a aussi une dimension affective,s dans lequel on voit les Heures et années de labeur, de sueur, d'effort investi, et qui est souvent un appui précieux lorsqu'on afronte de moments durs dans la vie et il faut reprendre pied, pour qu'on ne laisse pas la dilapider p.ex. avec des impots et taxes de successsion excessives, etc.


    + La forme de la famille a pu changer, à travers les décenies recentes. Mais l'attachement à la Famille n'a pas changé. Le bésoin d' amour qu'on a dans une famille n' a pas changé. Ca reste une Valeur centrale. La valeur de l'amour n'a pas changé. Ainsi la famille reste au centre. .. c'est pour cela que je ne laisserais jamais détruire l' Institution centrale de la société qui est la Famille", prometta Sarkozy, suscitant des larges applaudissements.


    - "Je crois à la valeur de l' effort, mais aussi à la Solidarité (qui "n'est pas l'Assistanat", conclua-t-il). je souhaite la Qualité du Travaile
    (.../... )
    - C'est "absurde, un mensonge, une calomnie", d'accuser cela d'être synonyme à "chercher aux terres de l'extrème droite", retorqua-t-il.


    - "C'est pourquoi j'ai accepté le Débat proposé (avec Hollande) par Radio France", et il va y en avoir des débats pendant ces 2 semaines du deuxième tour des elections.


    => "Je veux que vous puissiez faire un Choix le plus Clair possible. Que chacun soit informé des consequences de ce qu'il fera. Que vous comprenez que ce Choix est véritablement Historique", souligna Sarkozy.


    "P.ex. est-ce qu'il y a quelqu'un qui souhaite pour la France le sort de l' Espagne et de la Grèce ?", interroga-t-il, s'agissant de pays notoirement mal-gérés par plusieurs ex-Gouvernements "Socialistes".

    En fait, "la sanction (financière) est immédiate aujourd'hui. P.ex. si la France, après 5 ans d' efforts, soudain, aujourd'hui considère qu'elle purrait dépenser de plus en plus, qu'elle pourrait embaucher beaucoup plus de fonctionaires, qu'on n'a pas bésoin de travailler davantage. (etc), croyez-vous qu'on va epargner la France du sort subi par la Grèce ou l' Espagne, l' Italie, le Portugal, et les autres ?" interrogea-t-il.


    Mais, ici, nous avons réussi de sauver l' Epargne des citoyens : - "Il n' y a pas eu un seul francais qu'il aurait perdu son épargne", Sarkozy observa, (contrairement p.ex. à ce qui s'est passé en Grèce, en Irlande et/ou en Islande, etc).
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    => Il va y avoir une campagne avec "Projet contre Projet". On prendra des engagements, et c'est pour cela que j'ai anoncé qu'on utilisera aussi cette institution de la République qui est le Réferendum, Sarkozy a confirmé pour l' avénir, en ce qui concerne sa volonté Gaulliste d'employer l' appel au Peuple.


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Hu Jia's prize brings SAKHAROV's wife to "EuroFora" on murders of Journalists Politkofskaya, Gongadze and Adali :

- Elena Bonner : "All Journalists' murders must be fully investigated", without Double Standards.                                                                                    

During a special Mega-Event to celebrate 20 Years of SAKHAROV Prize for "Freedom of Thought", attributed in 2008 by EU Parliament to jailed Chinese Cyber-Dissident Hu JIA, the move was reinforced by strongly criticizing the persisting impunity in three cases of Journalists' Murders, such as POLITKOVSKAYA in Russia, GONGADZE in Ukraine, and ADALI in Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus.

Any bureaucratic doubt about whether Cyber-dissidents like Hu JIA might have, or not, a right to be protected as all Journalists must be, particularly when they take risks to search, find and publish original and critical News on issues of general interest to the society, could not resist to the emotion provoked by the message of his Wife, Zeng JINYAN spectacularly transmitted at a big screen in EU Parliament's hemicycle :

- "The most important and most interesting thing he did was to ... say the Truth :.. to write about the phenomena he observed... He never stopped Publishing.. on websites, so that the Public could learn about the reality .. and understand it.  In my view, this has been his greatest contribution", stressed the young wife of the jailed man, eager to cite also the cases of other critical journalists who faced various kinds of "harassment".

 - "Welcoming all those who have suffered for defending Human Rights", EU Parliament's President, German MEP Hans Gert POETTERING, who had invited to Strasbourg all former Sakharov prize-winners from various Countries throughout the World, said that "China needs Europe, and Europe needs China : A great nation" with which "we want to have a good relationship", "association and ..friendship". "But we are never going to stop our fight for Human Rights, and No Government can expect this from us".

    - "It's impossible  to achieve goals of Peace, if Human Rights are left out. In fact, Peace and Human Rights are intrinsequaly linked", added POETTERING.

    It's in this spirit that MEPs adopted, on Thursday, a Resolution denouncing that "the criminal
investigation and trial following the murder of (a) Journalist ...raises serious concerns with regard to transparency and respect for the rule of law", when a "brutal killing has not yet been fully investigated and solved in a satisfactory way".

    The text refered to dissident Journalist "Anna POLITOVSKAYA", a critic of Tchechen conflict, killed some years ago in Moscow, where Russian Authorities have found, arrested and are currently judging two executants, while also searching to arrest also a 3rd one, allegedly escaped in Belgium. But they have not yet found the instigators.

     Similar texts were adopted recently also on dissident Ukranian Journalist Georgiy GONGADZE's murder, for which Ukranian Authorities have at least found, arrested and condemned 2 executants to 12 and 13 Years of jail, but not yet the instigators. For that purpose, they recently accepted an International Experts team to participate to the investigations.     

But, it's only for the Murder of dissident Turkish Cypriot Journalist ADALI, in the occupied territories of Cyprus, that Turkey has NOT yet found ANYONE responsible, and even claimed recently inside CoE that it would be "impossible" to do so !    

These astonishing differences exist despite the fact that ECHR condemned alike Ukraine and Turkey with 2 Judgements on the same year : 2005, for the murders of  Journalists GONGADZE and ADALI, strong critics of Corruption in Ukraine, and of Ankara's policies on mass-influx of Turkish Settlers in the Occupied Territories of Cyprus, respectively.    

Regarless of that, CoE's Committee of Ministers, who is entrusted with the duty to supervise execution of ECHR's judgements, has just asked Ukraine's Government to reply to further questions on Gongadze's murder before March 2009, while Turkey, curiously, got a longer postponement for answering questions on Adali's murder, until June...   

A comparison of these cases, raises serious questions about Double Standards :

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On TRANSPARENCY :
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    On Gongadze's murder, CoE's body speaks even about the participation of
"an INTERNATIONAL group of Experts" in the Investigation, (f.ex. of "Tape Recordings"), accepted by Ukraine.
    On the contrary, on Adali's murder, CoE is obliged to repeatedly ask (for a 2nd
time) Turkey whether, at least, it informed the victims' Family, or not...
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- On EFFICIENCY :
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On Gongadze's murder, CoE formally "recalls that the Committee (of Ministers) ..URGED the Ukranian authorities.. to TAKE ALL NECESSARY INVESTIGATIVE STEPS TO ACHIEVE CONCRETE and VISIBLE RESULTS in the INVESTIGATION, aimed at the Identification of the INSTIGATORS and Organisers of the Murder", and "STRONGLY INVITED the Ukranian Authorities to provide information on the PROGRESS IN THE INVESTIGATION", before MARCH 2009.

But, on Adali's murder, on the contrary, CoE's body merely .. "took note" of the "arguments presented by" Cyprus, which denounce the absence of any proof of new "investigation" by Turkey. Following Turkey's own suggestion (!), it simply "noted" that there is "no limitation period" for "any new element" to "lead potentialy (sic !) to a Re-Opening of the Investigation". Without saying who might find any such "new" fact, since Turkey stoped searching... It also POSTPONED the issue until .. JUNE  !
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 - On the PUNISHMENT OF THOSE RESPONSIBLE :
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 -  On Gongadze's murder case, Ukranian Authorities already arrested and condemned, at least 2 suspects, to 12 and 13 Years of jail. And on Politkovskaya's murder at least 2 suspects are judged, and a 3rd one "wanted".

On the contrary, on Adali's murder case, the Turkish authorities simply claim that "it had not been possible to obtain new .. information .. on the basis of which criminal charges could be brought against ANY person" !...

Moreover,  a LETTER sent by Turkey ...2 Years after CoE's 2006 call to re-investigate anew Adali's murder case, is totally EMPTY of Facts ! As Cypus' Delegation denounced earlier, Turkey's Letter ONLY CLAIMS that a "New Investigation" was made without any result, but does NOT even cite ANY FACT to prove it :

F.ex.,on the crucial issue of the "MOTIVATIONS" behind Adali's murder, noted by ECHR, Turkey MERELY CLAIMS that "all allegations  were investigated; without result", but OMITS ANY FACT TO PROVE IT !..(It doesn't even remind which were these "allegations").. .

+ On ECHR's astonishment that the Turkish Occupation regime didn't produce any "BALLISTIC REPORT" on the Shots which murdered Adali, Turkey again repeats, 12 years later, that, still, even until now, "it  was not possible to obtain the BalisticReport"...

- As for the astonishing absence of key-WITNESSES' Testimonies, denounced by ECHR, Turkey agains repeats various pretexts avoiding to reveal anything, (Fex. that a person "left" the Occupied Territories  "on 2002", or that another witness was heard, but without revealing nothing of what he said, etc).

Turkey obviously "FAILS TO MEET THE CRITICISM made BY THE COURT" for lack of any efficient Investigation in Adali's case, concluded Cyprus' Government.
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Replying to our Question which COMPARED these 3 outstanding cases of "JOURNALISTS MURDERS", Adali, Gongadze and Politkovskaya, in order to avoid "Double Standards" by asking from Ukraine and Russia more than what is asked EU candidate Turkey, many European personalities were critical /

They criticised Ankara's recent claim at the CoE to stop investigating, because it would be "impossible to find anyone" responsible for the 5 bullet shots which killed Kutlu ADALI in front of his Family Home, contrary to the other two Journalists' murders, where Ukraine and Russia at least arrested the executants, searching now for the instigators :
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    - "Where was that ? In Turkish Occupied Cyprus ? WITHOUT ANY DOUBT : Any murder of Journalist should be investigated in full ! All these Murders must be investigated !", replied the famous SAKHAROV's wife, Elena BONNER to our question on Adali's case, compared to Gongadze and Politofskaya.

    Elena Bonner spoke us EXCLUSIVELY shortly after being honored by the President
of EU Parliament on the occasion of 20 Years of her husband's SAKHAROV Prize.

    A strong personality, Sakharov's wife even had to struggle against an anonymous EU staffer who, astonishingly, tried to stop her speaking when h heard our question on "Turkey" (!) : - "Please, let me translate, she continues
speaking, don't stop us !", had to cry Sakharov's daughter, (a Journalist
herself), who was translating her mothers' reply, (obliged to speak louder to
make her voice heard despite the harassment).. (= + Audio Proof !)

    Earlier, Elena Bonner also fustigated "Double Standards" at another case, on
Western countries' attitude vis a vis Kosovo and the Kurds : -F.ex. "You have
recognized a few 400.000 Kosovars as an "independent" country, but you still
deny that to 30 millions of Kurds in Turkey !", she denounced.
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    - "This (ADALI's murder) is an issue which should be pursued by the Committee
for Human Rights. That's why we have one, and it's its duty to examine cases of
Journalists' murders as the one you referred to. You should bring the case in
front of that Committee", suggested in reply to our question on Adali, EU
Parliament's President, German MEP Hans Gert POETTERING.

    - "It's impossible  to achieve goals of PEACE, if HUMAN RIGHTS are left out :
in fact, Peace and Human Rights are intrinsequaly linked", added POETTERING.
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    + "For us (European/International Federation of Journalists) it's clear :
Whenever a Journalist is Murdered, the Investigation should continue until
those Responsible are found !", replied earlier to another question on ADALI
EFJ/IFJ's Secretary General, Aidan WHITE.

    Speaking as a matter of General Principle, White asked us for "concrete data"
on the execution of ECHR's judgement on Adali case, in order to "look at it in
depth" and "make a formal statement", in comparison with the other Murdered
Journalist case, also pending at CoE's  Ministers for completing its execution,
on Ukranian Gongadze.
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     From EU Rapporteur on Human Rights, vice-President of EU Parliament Liberties' Committee, MEP Giusto CATANIA, we were told that, since there is an ECHR judgement in both Adali and Gongadge's cases, "Turkey must naturally execute the judgement and make a full and efficient investigation, until those responsible for the Journalist's murder are found and punished".

    Even if "we (Catania's "EuroLeft" Group) support Turkey's EU perspectives, this does not mean that Ankara should not behave properly. On the contrary, it means that they have to meet tough conditions, particularly on Human Rights", was added on the occasion of Adali's murder case.

    Moreover, "since you raise the issue of Mr. Adali's muder as a part of a Series of Journalist's murders, including fex. Gongadze, Politkovskaya, ao., tthen we (EU) could also act together with CoE's Commissioner on Human Rights, Thomas HAMMARBERG, it was suggested.

    - "We (EU) must step up efforts against the problem of IMPUNITY : Real Peace cannot exist without Justice",  stressed also this week at EU Parliament in Strasbourg, French Minister on Human Rights, Mrs Rama YADE.
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