One more day and we will be able to put down these French elections which have “invaded” KeyboardPolitics. Promised! But being located where we are it has been difficult to avoid reporting on then. After all we have been able to have a front seat, so to speak. Read the rest of this entry »

Election night on Sunday was full of surprises for the French. The first one, the winning of the socialist François Hollande who came ahead of the center-right incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy was the smallest one as it had more or less been predicted; Read the rest of this entry »

There are now just nine days to the first round of the French presidential elections and things are beginning to “heat”. With their different approaches to campaigning the two main candidates are trying to win the electorate. Read the rest of this entry »

Presidential elections in France are just two weeks from Sunday. When the French thought it was really going to be a contest between the incumbent President Nicolas Sarkozy and the socialist François Hollande with Marine Le Pen, the candidate from the far-right set to be in third place, things have become more “interesting”. Read the rest of this entry »

It all began this morning when the French President Nicolas Sarkozy launched his new personal Twitter account, hours prior to formally declaring on French TV tonight his intention to run for a second term as president. Read the rest of this entry »

Friday 13 means in many countries bad luck. France, Austria and seven other countries in Europe are probably agreeing with that now as yesterday, January the 13, the US based ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut France and Austria triple -A rating by one notch to AA+, and downgraded the other seven countries -Spain, Italy, Portugal, Malta, Cyprus, Slovakia and Slovenia two notches. Read the rest of this entry »

Elections in the US, specially presidential elections, have always been mystifying for Europeans, though little by little some European politicians are beginning to copy some aspects of it, like introducing families, and making their lives known to their constituents. Still there is a lot to catch up if in reality they want to transform their elections into the circus attractions and even the nastiness the American elections end up turning into. Read the rest of this entry »