France votes to shut out the world

Commentary feature on the election campaign in the 2012 Presidential Election in France. The writers suggests that in the campaign there has been no glimmer of recognition of the constraints imposed by globalisation or the shifting geopolitical balance.

ESO: Background information: France is the source of its own problems http://www.europeansources.info/record/france-is-the-source-of-its-own-problems/

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

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