That, of course, is exactly the platform on which France's new Socialist president was elected.
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France's new Socialist finance minister, Laurent Fabius, took over only a month ago.
The background to this is that the new Socialist President of France, Hollande, has insisted that high income French people must contribute more in these tough times.
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As well as the latest downgrade, France's new Socialist government has also had to put up with criticism from the financial community and the press, particularly in light of President Francois Hollande's decision to reinstate retirement at 60 for some workers.
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He seems certain to be dumped at a party convention next May. (Sadly his defeat may make other politicians think twice before championing a tax on carbon emissions.) Some of the Liberals' erstwhile supporters seem to have switched to the socialist New Democrats.
The coalition, which is supported by Mr Samaras' conservative New Democracy, the Socialist Pasok and the Democratic Left, was agreed following elections on 17 June, which were called when an earlier vote failed to produce a viable government.
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To plug the gap the three governing parties, the conservative New Democracy, PanHellenic Socialist Movement and Democratic Left, may have to rip out a key plank in their joint policy-platform: a deal ruling out further across-the-board wage cuts for the civil service.
The conservative New Democracy party and the socialist Pasok movement were both crushed.
When angry voters went to the polls on May 6, they punished politicians who imposed the austerity measures, greatly reducing the number of seats held by the center-right New Democracy party and the Socialist PASOK party.
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Even if he commands his own New Democracy party, the PanHellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok) has dramatically lost support and is divided under its leader, Evangelos Venizelos.
The winning party has already started informal talks with the country's socialist party to form a new government, with a cross-party coalition likely to be formed by Wednesday.
But it did not withdraw its support for the cabinet, led by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's conservative New Democracy party, with the backing of the Socialist party Pasok.
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The country's economy is among the most sluggish in Europe, and its recently elected socialist government has promised hundreds of thousands of new jobs.
In 1988, Pierre Mauroy, the city's mayor and a powerful figure in France's Socialist Party, engineered the routing of a new network of domestic and international high-speed train services through Lille and used that coup to turn the city into a logistics and service hub.
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's New Democracy party leads a coalition government which also includes the socialist Pasok and the small Democratic Left party.
Mr Papandreou's approval rating has collapsed, along with that of his Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), but the opposition New Democracy party has been unable to pick up the slack.
The new Belgian government, led by Elio Di Rupo, a Socialist, was forced to cut cherished social programmes under threat of EU sanctions (a general strike forced leaders to fly in to this week's summit via a military airport).
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Strauss-Khan, a 63-year-old economist, was widely expected to become the Socialist presidential candidate -- until his professional career imploded with an arrest in New York in May 2011.
As well as appeasing citizens today, both Socialist leader (and head of the crisis government) George Papandreou, as well as New Democracy party head Antonis Samaras, are positioning for elections expected in April (no date yet set for the vote).
The opposition Socialist party called the vote because it wants the government to reverse its decision not to build a new plant at Belene.
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