When France held the rotating European Union presidency in the second half of 2008, Mr Sarkozy’s popularity rating climbed from 38% to 46%, according to OpinionWay, another pollster.

据另一家民意测验机构(Opinionway)透露，法国2008年下半年成为欧盟轮值国时，萨科奇的支持率从38%爬升到了46&。

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When France held the rotating European Union presidency in the second half of 2008, Mr Sarkozy's popularity rating climbed from 38% to 46%, according to OpinionWay, another pollster.

据另一家民意测验机构（Opinionway）透露，法国2008年下半年成为欧盟轮值国时，萨科奇的支持率从38%爬升到了46&。

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Earlier this year, Mr Sarkozy dropped in on angry fishermen in the port of Boulogne-sur-Mer, and promised a thorough review of European Union fishing quotas during the French presidency of the EU. France gives up this position at the end of December, yet nothing of the sort has happened.

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To wit, one example, which is that France would not be stepping next year into the presidency of the G20 had the United States of America not supported France for this presidency.

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The upright Mr Balladur can hardly, they say, be accused of sympathy for the Front: only this spring, after a regional election, he refused to take the presidency of the Ile de France region (which surrounds Paris) if that meant accepting votes from Fronters.

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