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economist.com
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A report in 2011
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google.com
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increase steadily
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theglobeandmail.com
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petition
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egalite2012.fr
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”Equality 2012” pact
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ipu.org
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Inter-Parliamentary Union
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insee.fr
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23 percent less
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connexionfrance.com
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The Connexion
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ipu.org
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survey
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facebook.com
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Nicolas Sarkozy’s
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facebook.com
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Facebook Page
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lexpress.fr
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whether Facebook co-operated with Sarkozy’s campaign team
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twitter.com
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Twitter
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english.rfi.fr
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About 50 million franc bills – worth about 600 million euros – were
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english.rfi.fr
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still in circulation last year.
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english.rfi.fr
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The government expects to recuperate about 500 million euros, mostly in bigger bills
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reuters.com
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seven in 10 people want to keep the euro
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farm5.staticflickr.com
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<img loading="lazy" title="Icicles" src="https://i0.wp.com/farm5.staticflickr.com/4005/4441335028_9b086c7381_z.jpg" alt="" width="448" height="336">
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google.com
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La Dépêche called it “the Siberian cold” and “the polar cold”.
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twitter.com
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#LeFroid turned into a sort of meme
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meteolafleche.com
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But for all the hullabaloo, France’s lowest average temperature last week was only roughly -7ºC; Germany’s was closer to -15ºC.
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guardian.co.uk
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Electricity consumption hit record highs in early February
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guardian.co.uk
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French electricity demand rose as high as 100,500 megawatts (MW) at 6pm last Tuesday, the highest since the 96,710MW record reached on 15 December 2010.
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reuters.com
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One degree Celcius drop in temperatures causes a 2,300 MW rise in demand, driven by the fact that around 30 percent French homes use electricity for heating.
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reuters.com
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grid operator RTE estimated that the world’s most reliant country on nuclear energy imported around 6,500 megawatts from Britain (2,000MW) and Germany (1,800MW).
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4-traders.com
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Schneider Electric forecasts that France’s electricity tariffs will soar by an overall 65% in 2016
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reuters.com
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Three French nuclear plants were shut down
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reuters.com
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“Germany, which is permanently tighter than in recent winters due to the shutdown of a large amount of nuclear capacity”
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online.wsj.com
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The presidential frontrunner’s popularity rating (30.5%)
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guardian.co.uk
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“Mr Normal”
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guardian.co.uk
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his own little section on The Guardian
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ft.com
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“should markets fear change in France?”
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lefigaro.fr
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But to put it barefacedly, as Le Figaro has, it isn’t the French elections which are troubling the markets. It is Hollande.
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spiegel.de
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“greatest danger bears the name Hollande”
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spiegel.de
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<img loading="lazy" class=" " title="Merkel's nightmare" src="https://i0.wp.com/cdn4.spiegel.de/images/image-312663-galleryV9-qehu.jpg" alt="" width="430" height="326">
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reuters.com
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shrink government debt in 2011 by €58 billion
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bloomberg.com
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government debt exceeding revenue by 5.4%
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reuters.com
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According to Reuters, one of Merkel’s aides cited “Hollande’s anti-market rhetoric and his call to renegotiate a fiscal pact on stricter budget discipline in the euro zone agreed by European leaders last month” as a reason behind her decision to back Sarkozy. “Hollande’s plans endanger the efforts to stabilize the euro,” Hermann Groehe, general secretary of Merkel’s Christian Democratic (CDU) party, told Reuters on a visit to France.
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reuters.com
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“He wants to do things differently,” the adviser said. “He wants more ministerial and parliamentary involvement, rather than it being a small club of the presidency and chancellery. He wants more say for the (European) Commission and national parliaments. He wouldn’t go back on the 17-nation euro zone meetings but he wants to return legitimacy to EU summits.”
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reuters.com
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consistently at the top of the polls
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parismatch.com
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<img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-174" loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="174" data-permalink="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/france-looks-ready-for-socialist-government-is-europe/capture-decran-2012-02-09-a-1-23-45-am/" data-orig-file="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png" data-orig-size="989,613" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Hollande leading the polls" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=594" class=" wp-image-174 " title="Hollande leading the polls" src="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=450&h=278" alt="" width="450" height="278" srcset="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=450&h=279 450w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=900&h=558 900w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=150&h=93 150w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=300&h=186 300w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-09-c3a0-1-23-45-am.png?w=768&h=476 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px">
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insee.fr
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which contributed €1.8 trillion to the euro area residency in December
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reuters.com
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reduce annual earnings for top banks like BNP Paribas and Société Générale by up to 10%, a combined total of €1.7 billion.
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online.wsj.com
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they are cutting back on operations and firing hundreds of people
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guardian.co.uk
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<strong>“slightly hypocritical”, since “France’s banking lobby is hugely powerful and they (the leaders) still don’t really know how to knock them (the bankers) down a peg”.</strong>
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zdf.de
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<img loading="lazy" data-attachment-id="140" data-permalink="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/interview-peter-frey-sarkozy-merkel/capture-decran-2012-02-07-a-2-17-13-pm/" data-orig-file="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png" data-orig-size="913,513" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":""}" data-image-title="Peter Frey" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-large-file="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png?w=594" class="alignnone wp-image-140" title="Peter Frey" src="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png?w=600&h=337" alt="" width="600" height="337" srcset="https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png?w=600&h=337 600w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png?w=150&h=84 150w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png?w=300&h=169 300w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png?w=768&h=432 768w, https://frenchonomix.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/capture-d_c3a9cran-2012-02-07-c3a0-2-17-13-pm.png 913w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px">
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leplus.nouvelobs.com
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German journalist Peter Frey appears to be the unexpected star in today’s modest media flurry
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twitter.com
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#Merkozy
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twitter.com
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#Sarkoshow
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twitter.com
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6 février 2012
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francetv.fr
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Full interview in French on France2.
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zdf.de
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Full interview in German on ZDF.
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guardian.co.uk
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All that was missing was a ring
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france2.fr
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France 2
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zdf.de
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ZDF
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twitter.com
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6 février 2012
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twitter.com
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#Dijon
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twitter.com
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#FH2012
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twitter.com
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6 février 2012
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zdf.de
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website
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reuters.com
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still leading the polls
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twitter.com
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#FH2012
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twitter.com
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6 février 2012
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francetv.fr
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two excerpts from the interview here
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