According to an article recently published in the German magazine “Spiegel”, some left-wing “top level greens” want to keep Dany Cohn-Bendit from being candidate for the European elections in 2009. Of course everybody is replaceable, but the question remains: Who - if not a figurehead like Dany Cohn-Bendit - could run the European election campaign for the Green Party? Definitely, the forthcoming elections will give a direction to the European Greens. That’s why Dany Cohn-Bendit should be their front-runner in the election campaign. Now more than ever!

A crucial demographic development can be observed after the elections in France: Even though Nicolas Sarkozy got the major share of all votes, Ségolène Royal scored particularly amongst young people aged 18 to 24, and among the age group between 45 and 60. Among the voters over 60 years Sarkozy obtained an impressive majority. It is interesting to observe that the topic of future and jobs did play an important role in the society. Now we have to discover that the people who made the decision are the ones who wish for more stability and not jobs.....
Given the need for reforms among the French Left, I would like to recommend number 32 of the European revue "Transit" which deals among others with the issue of the necessary reforms of the social system.

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The last days of the election campaign in France are getting increasingly insane. One now knows which nightmares are bothering Sarkozy. May of ´68, he says, has to be blamed for everything: Cynicism, immorality, insanity. For Sarkozy, May of ´68 is intellectual and moral relativism, which weakens the state's authority and the idea of citizens. The emerging question is why he plays on that level? The answer is clear: he mobilizes the old fear of the then-bourgeoisie and wants to reawaken it to win the elections.

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All those who thought Sunday night that the election is already decided will hopefully be disappointed. .....It is extremely exciting what is happening at the moment in France: Ségolène Royal -due to increased votes from the center- is forced to move the socialist-traditional orientation of her Socialist party towards a modern way. That means to direct the Socialist Party towards the Greens as well as to open it towards the center. The French do not want this traditional left-right-scheme and want to move France. Nicoals Sarkozy is still the favorite; Ségolène Royal however, has a fair chance as she is bearing a new hope.

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