Professor Yates on Bloomberg TV About French Primaries |
Thursday, 20 October 2011 |
On October 17th, Professor Douglas Yates was interviewed on Bloomberg TV about the nomination of Socialist candidate François Hollande to challenge President and probable candidate Nicolas Sarkozy in the May 2012 French presidential elections. Professor Yates commented on the significance of this nomination for France and for the rest of the world. He talked about this first-time "American-style" primaries as a "deepening of France's democracy" and remarked on François Hollande as a candidate who, if elected, would be likely to continue the construction of the EU and the Eurozone. |