During the French campaign Francois Hollande, rather like Bersani, had said "austerity was not the only option".
The episode provided an ignominious denouement to a disastrous French campaign, marred by infighting and inept displays on the field.
French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the French campaign in Mali, which it launched in January after Islamist militants took over much of the country's north, succeeded in preventing terrorists from controlling that area.
But French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Monday there was no confirmation that either Belmoktar or another senior figure in AQIM, Abou Zeid, had been killed during the French campaign against Islamist hideouts in northern Mali.
Separately in Strasbourg, MEPs will question President Hollande about the French military campaign.
During the last French Presidential campaign, Angela publicly backed Nicolas for re-election.
The French no campaign harped on the fear that living standards would be undermined by competition from the east (famously symbolised by Polish plumbers).
It was a feature of the French election campaign that poorer voters were disillusioned with the benefits of globalisation, with the European project and the prospect of prolonged austerity.
Sweeney's conversion reduced the deficit to four points as the Welsh region threatened a remarkable comeback, with Perpignan short of confidence following a losing start to the French Championship campaign.
The start of a French military campaign this month in the northwest African nation of Mali and a four-day siege of an industrial complex by militants in Algeria has cast extremism there in a new light.
This "would raise the political costs of the French bombing campaign, dragging the intervention into urban warfare that neither France, the U.S. nor Algeria would be willing to lead with boots on the ground, and leaving Mali's fractious military exposed, " according to Phillippe de Pontet of Eurasia Group.
Between the emissions from the Republican presidential contest and the French Presidential election campaign, the latter, alarms more.
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French officials have said they feared the campaign could lead jihadist movements to target French and Western interests in retaliation.
In one campaign, French doctors used six syringes to inject 80, 000 African workers with a medicine for sleeping sickness.
The defeat compounds a disappointing European campaign for French champions Perpignan, who are still winless in the Heineken Cup against English teams away from home.
Although the effort was launched by the clothing industry to better understand the modern French physiognomy, the campaign has also become a way to remind the populace of their true size.
Toulon, who finished ninth in the French Top 14 this season after a campaign battling relegation, will have ex-French international Philippe Saint-Andre in place as sporting director next season.
Toulon, who finished ninth in the French Top 14 this season after a campaign battling the fear of relegation, will have ex-French international Philippe Saint-Andre in place as sporting director next season.
Or why not campaign for the French, especially men, to smoke and drink less?
She blogged about the Sarkozy campaign on the French edition of the Huffington Post, which she edits herself.
Stephen French, who began his campaign after two family members were shot, is understood to be one of three men held on suspicion of possessing a firearm.
But these are early days in the campaign dubbed by the French military Operation Serval.
Key to the campaign will be persuading the French government to nominate the reef for the listing.
The citizens of El Alto, a poor, sprawling city perched above La Paz, the capital, are engaged in a like-minded campaign to throw out a French water company, which they blame for high prices and for failing to supply water to hundreds of thousands of people.
Yet those who hoped that the French president would swiftly dump his more outrageous campaign promises are in for a disappointment.
Ms Bardot joined the campaign and wrote a letter to French President Francois Hollande earlier this week, asking him to intervene.
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But advocates of European self-sufficiency, such as the French defence analyst Nicole Gnesotto, say the campaign against Serbia has brought home some hard truths about the continent's defence.
The French are confident that this phase of the campaign will soon be over, adds our correspondent, though of course the vast desert hinterland offers the Islamists endless opportunities to retreat and regroup.
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