Dear students,
To carry on our conversation about the fact that you have to keep in mind the next point : « Po » in « Sces Po »(read it with a strong french accent ;) means politics , we would like you to read this article in The Wall Street Journal about the shift to the right of french President Nicolas Sarkozy :
Nicolas Le Pen
Even by local standards, the French President's recent burst of xenophobia is pretty cynical.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has ramped up the anti-immigrant rhetoric in recent days, telling a TV audience last week that France has "too many foreigners" and offering to cut the number of immigrants admitted to France by half should he be re-elected to a second term. Then on Sunday, before a monster rally in a stadium near Paris, he threatened to suspend France's participation in Schengen, Europe's internal borderless-travel zone, unless it is reformed to better keep out the great unwashed.
Read more : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450004577277241473592360.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
A. Cuvelier
