Today, the French people elected Mr. Nicolas Sarcozy, a conservative, to be a new French president, for the next five years. He got about 53% of the votes, and Ms. Ségolène Royal, a socialist candidate, got 47% of the votes.
Whenever a new elections bring some change in the world’s key countries, which France undoubtedly is, for the last several years, I have an impression that no good results are to be expected for the world. Looks like the new generation of conservative politicians are reviving national sentiments, which they like to call “traditional values”. In Europe, conservatives usually bring closing of the country for the immigrants, decline in European integration, neoconservative policies with a bit of racial flavour.
