This explains so many things:
"Sarkozy Urges French to Play ‘the Game of Globalization’ " by KATRIN BENNHOLD
PARIS, Aug. 30 — In a country that has long resisted globalization, President Nicolas Sarkozy bluntly told France on Thursday to stop kidding itself and face up to it — but in a French way.
In a major speech outlining the next phase of his economic plans, the president vowed to make good on his campaign promises to adopt business-friendly policies to allow French companies to compete better in the world, even if the changes upset those clinging to France’s generous welfare system and strong job protection.
Mr. Sarkozy broke with tradition when he chose the campus of a business school and a business audience to outline his economic program. France’s political class has preferred to be seen with philosophers and intellectuals. But under Mr. Sarkozy, money and big business are no longer taboo.
On Thursday, Mr. Sarkozy moved with visible ease among the business leaders, as if, one chief executive of a large French company remarked, “he was one of us.”
Labor unions and leftist opposition politicians, who criticized Mr. Sarkozy’s decision to give a high-profile speech on economic policy before a business federation, appeared to concur.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a Socialist senator, referring to the French stock market index: “He is the president of the CAC 40.”
Although he provided few details, Mr. Sarkozy indicated that he would push for additional cuts in payroll taxes and ways to encourage people to work beyond the statutory 35-hour workweek. Legislators last month approved his election promise to cut the maximum tax burden to 50 percent of personal income and scrap taxes on overtime pay.
He also vowed to press ahead with changes to the labor code, easing rules that make it cumbersome for companies to fire people."
[This explains the threat on Iran as well.
The Globalist-Zionist connection rears its ugly head]
