Euro Rescue Efforts Boost French Leader

Written off as a failure just months ago, conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy was inching back up in the polls in December 2011 as the 2012 presidential election campaign began. While he's restyled himself as a statesman out to rescue the euro, his opponent, Socialist candidate François Hollande, is still searching for the right message.

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ESO: Background information: French presidential election, 2012 http://www.europeansources.info/record/french-presidential-election-2012/

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