Saturday, July 22, 2006

I may reconsider renouncing my French ancestry

Speak English and work harder.
What a concept.
THE French need to work harder and display less arrogance, if they are to recapture former glories, Nicolas Sarkozy, the Interior Minister, tells his countrymen in a highly personal 281-page book published yesterday.
Just as they embark on their long summer break, he has a blunt message for them: the holiday is over.

"I believe that deep in French society there is a strong demand for the restoration of certain values of the Republican right: work, respect for authority, the family, individual responsibility," he says. Although he denies personal animosity for his rival, President Chirac, he makes no attempt to hide their fundamental political differences.

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