On Sunday, French voters struck back at President Nicolas Sarkozy’s “anglo-saxonisme” policies of British-style austerity and free-market economics by electing socialist François Hollande to replace him. Ironically, in doing so, they are following a similar political path as those Anglo-Saxons across the English Channel. Hollande’s win is also part of a larger European revival of left-wing politics, a reaction against the European Union’s struggles.
Read more: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/05/the-resurgence-of-the-european-left/256803/
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