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Sarkozy’s five-year prison term starts with fingerprints and a mug shot
21 Oct 2025 13:12 GMT
… toll on Sarkozy’s presidency. Unemployment rose as many manufacturers pulled … found himself lagging Socialist candidate François Hollande. Sarkozy responded by taking a …
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Broken promises and political crises: how Emmanuel Macron fell from French favour
17 Oct 2025 14:52 GMT
… jobs after decades of mass unemployment and end inequality. Crucially, he … ,” Garrigues said. “[His Socialist predecessor] François Hollande also experienced record unpopularity but …
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Alain Minc, former advisor to the Élysée Palace: ‘Macron is the worst president in the history of the Fifth Republic’
16 Oct 2025 18:49 GMT
… the Fifth Republic. [The Socialist] François Hollande, by comparison, was an honorable … banking system on the continent. Unemployment is falling and public services …
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‘I am in it to win it’: François Hollande on running for president
27 Oct 2024 02:39 GMT
… on our way to François Hollande’s office in the back … for zigzagging policies, high unemployment and the devastating Charlie Hebdo … toyed with running again.
• François Hollande gears up for comeback 10 … Le défi de gouverner by François Hollande (Perrin €23)
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The End of Macronisme
09 Oct 2025 17:20 GMT
… clear, modern vision. Their president, François Hollande, ended his term in 2017 … investment boom and ended mass unemployment. Much remains to be done …
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In many countries, views of the national economy are closely related to partisanship
08 Oct 2025 14:03 GMT
… Party of Macron’s predecessor, François Hollande, but by a much smaller … gross domestic product growth, inflation, unemployment and income inequality – are not …
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As France battles debt crisis, a ‘rockstar’ economist polarises nation’s politics
03 Oct 2025 07:52 GMT
… response, increased spending, limited cuts
François Hollande
2012-2017
~€1.8 trillion …
98.4%
Slow growth, high unemployment, maintained social spending
Emmanuel Macron …
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Between Macron's Crisis and Le Pen's Threat: France's Left Seeks a Way Forward
02 Oct 2025 13:04 GMT
… leave, the will to reduce unemployment benefits and new job cuts … officially applied since 2014, under François Hollande’s socialist five-year term …
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Between Macron’s Crisis and Le Pen’s Threat: France’s Left Seeks a Way Forward
30 Sep 2025 12:27 GMT
… leave, the will to reduce unemployment benefits and new job cuts … officially applied since 2014, under François Hollande’s socialist five-year term …
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OPINION: France's Socialists hold the country's fate in their unwilling hands
24 Sep 2025 09:58 GMT
… biggest force in French politics.
François Hollande was President. His party dominated … the country into mediocrity and unemployment.
The broad, pro-European party … the party to founder under François Hollande. They are reluctant to …