his foreign policy at the time of nicolas sarkozy the arab spring has just started and france has actually played has been very much involved and has played played a central role in the libyan crisis what role does france play in the syrian crisis today. this is a difficult question because the coverage has been mainly one sided a few years ago nobody had a serious problem with the assad regime the syrian president was invited by nicolas sarkozy to attend fresh national day celebrations but somehow he is now the devil incarnate i am not trying to defend the assad regime but we get all our reports from the syrian observatory for human rights basically two people in london presenting only one side of the conflict first of all i think the countries must observe international law and international law prohibits interference in the internal affairs of a foreign state so the first thing we need to do is to make sure that other countries don't interfere with the situations in syria and libya france no doubt has sided with the opposition but what kind of opposition is it the opposition that enjoys

while the conservative former president nicolas sarkozy had the police presence in northern marseilles' reduced, the socialist government in paris wants to send more than 200 additional police to marseille. the left-wing mayor of the district says even that is not enough. she wants the army to patrol the district. >> i am only saying what the residents do not dare say out loud because they're afraid there will be repercussions. they are afraid their cars will be set on fire, they will be threatened, or their children a salted. >> those fears are justified. often police have to let dealers go shortly after they have arrested them, especially if they are minors. the police have the impression judges are undoing the work they have done. >> our courts should finally start imposing harsher penalties on drug consumers and dealers. >> the war against drug gangs is not even close to being one -- won. that harms marseille's prospects as a european capital of culture next year. the old port is being spruced up and a museum built, but not much is set to change in the city's in northern districts.

leaders including the president of france nicolas sarkozy and and german chancellor angela merkel and and forces strict a much much tougher. financial and fiscal discipline from the u. members and it requires them to slash the public deficit traumatically or to be punished to be fined if they streety is ratified that means france will have to will be obliged to reduce its budget by thirty billion euros and dramatically just huge sum of money and of course it will affect life in france dramatically the life of ordinary people i mean this budget document says is it was already ready it's been reviewed recently and it says that it proposes to save thirty billion euros by cutting public spending and by increasing taxes and of course this is something it's not going to help economy growth but instead may lead to stick nation this is what people of come here today are protesting against and they're calling for the opposite they say the country's economy right now needs most candy and lawyer tax says to do with the big day in the street needs to be developed and the conna me needs to be boas

leaders including the president of france nicolas sarkozy and and german chancellor angela merkel and and forces stricter fiscal discipline from the u. members and it requires them to slash the public deficit oh to be punished to be fined critics and people who've come here say these pact is all about control the brussels want to have over the european union members if they streety is ratified that means france will have to will be obliged to reduce its budget by thirteen billion euros and of course it will affect life in france dramatically go life of ordinary people i mean this budget document says it was already ready it's been reviewed recently and it says that it proposes to save thirty billion euros by cutting public spending and by increasing taxes and of course this is something it's not going to help economy growth but instead may lead to stick nation this is what people of color hit are protesting against. we don't want. because europe wants to pressure us to stop our country from investing in public sectors like education don't with this we are protesting against the stereo

leaders including the president of france nicolas sarkozy and and german chancellor angela merkel and enforces stricter fiscal. it's all about control the brussels want to have over the european union members of course it will affect life in france dramatically life of ordinary people i mean this budget document is what was already ready it's been reviewed recently and it says that it proposes cutting public spending and by increasing taxes and of course this is something it's not going to help economy growth but instead may lead to stick nation this is what people of color are protesting against. we don't want. because europe wants to pressure us to stop our country from investing in public sectors like education we are protesting against the spirit in europe and everybody knows that hysterically leads to recession in the cities we are against the imposition of the austerity plan will be very difficult for us of course we don't want but stare into measures have led to national wide protests in many countries and protesters have been clashing with police also road to europe and many h

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you mentioned syria and libya let's discuss a little bit france's foreign policy at the time of nicolas sarkozy the arab spring has just started and france has actually played has been very much involved and has played a central role in the libyan crisis what role does france play in the syrian crisis today.

what nicolas sarkozy would not accept, hollande definitely will not accept, france will not lose its power in eads. probably why the deal can't be sealed at this stage. two issues. the first is the golden share that france, germany and united king tomorrow would get. french government has no issue with this golden share, but the problem is about this 10% stake, the limit of 10% for a stake that uk would like to implement. france has a 15% stake in eads, it would have 9% of the new defense guy achbt, but what if the french group which has a 7.5% stake in eads, roughly 4% of the next company, which will if he decide in the future to withdraw itself from the defense giant. then france and the government would like to buy this stake. but if there is a limit of 10%, it won't be pobl. so in that case, france would be blocked. that's why the reason the government doesn't want to sign anything now which would jeopardize the future of its stake in eads. and that's the main problem from the french perspective. >> all right. what do you think, do you think we'll resolve it? stefane, if you were

first of all, tony, nicolas sarkozy just lost because he did not get 50% of the vote. worked very well in countries like france. a runoff guaranteed that will have a more than 50% of the vote. under a system of direct popular voting, with a runoff a week for two later, you are always guaranteed to get over 50% of the vote. so, the point is that, the third-party -- one of the points that many of us want to see, more choices for the public. you will have that if you get rid of the electoral college. that is a good thing. i do not -- you may be happy with what you are seeing. you may be happy with having just two choices and a monopoly of power and this echo chamber that you have. to be happy with the government where most of the american people rejected, has a 17% popularity rate. are you happy with that? continue with that. to get rid of the electoral college, he will change the dynamic. you will have the american people of voting as american spirit also want to know, the problems associated with a corrupt political structure in one state is more magnified under the ele