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FRANCE LEGALIZES SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

The French parliament have voted today to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill was passed 331-225, and it is thought weddings could begin as early as June.

The vote was almost a foregone conclusion given that parliament has a Socialist majority, who along with their allies the Green party, had been pushing for the bill. President Hollande made same-sex marriage a key manifesto promise in last year’s election.

However, the nation is deeply divided over the bill,  with mass rallies in Paris over the last few weeks. The protests are expected to continue, as they seek to convince President Hollande not to sign the bill into law, or to remove the part of it, which currently will see gay couples given the right to adopt.

The leader of the right leaning party UMP has promised another large scale demonstration in Paris on May 26th, with UMP leader Jean-François Copé wanting to send a “message of very strong disapproval to the government.”

This morning, before the vote it was reported that, Claude Bartolone, president of the lower house, received a package containing gunpowder and a note saying, “Citizen Bartolone, with this letter we formally ask you to delay the vote on same-sex marriage…Our methods are more radical and direct than demonstrations. You wanted war, you’ve got it.” The message was sent by the group calling themselves Interaction of the Forces of Order.

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FRENCH ACTOR GERARD DEPARDIEU BECOMES RUSSIAN CITIZEN TO AVOID 75% TAX RATE


One of the most popular french actors has taken Russian citizenship, to avoid the new tax rate for millionaires in France. French President Francois Hollande is introducing a tax rate of 75% on earnings above €1 million.

The actor Gerard Depardieu became one of many wealthy Frenchmen to quit the country.

The actor, who grew up in a working class family before becoming a successful actor, has said that he has paid millions in taxes over the years and that the new high tax rate is an attack on success.

Depardieu has now taken up Russian citizenship. He flew into Russia today, where he was greeted by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin. Russia has a flat income tax rate of 13%.

Depardieu has worked in Russia in the past, and has previously spoken of possibly taking up Russian citizenship.

Depardieu’s friend Arnaud Frilley told France’s RTL radio: “The President [Francois Hollande] called Gerard to ask if he was really serious about leaving France for good.

Gerard told him it wasn’t the taxes themselves that sickened him, but he was sickened by the way France spits on success. At one point he got very annoyed.

He also said he felt the way the media had treated him was terrible and that he needed to take a step back.

But he did say that he would remain French in his heart and that he felt he was a kind of spokesman for all other successful people like him who had not spoken out.”

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France’s proposed tax hikes spark ‘exodus’ of wealthy

75% Tax Rate

Since the Socialist Hollande has come to power in France and is now proposing high tax rates on the wealthy, neighboring countries are starting to see the wealthy families from France enter or enquire into moving and paying taxes instead to a new jurisdiction.

The French tax rate proposed is 75% for the rich!  The previous highest rate was 41%!

“Now a large number of wealthy French families are leaving the country as a direct result of the proposals of the new government.”

Inquiries into luxury homes in London rose 30% in this years first 3 months.  It may have something to do with Prime Minister David Cameron’s position.  He stated that he would “roll out the red carpet” for those affected by the 75% French tax rate.

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Camp David: G8 Leaders Hope Greece Will Remain in the Eurozone

The G8 leaders met at Camp David before the Nato Summit in Chicago. The G8 is made up of the leaders of: America, Canada, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Italy and Japan.
The financial crisis was at the centre of talks.

This was the first time newly elected French President Francois Hollande and President Obama have met. The two men are said to have agreed on the need to concentrate on growth, seen as Obama’s approval of Hollande’s policy, of moving away from austerity, towards stimulating the economy with more borrowed money.

Obama’s endorsement of Hollande has left Germany’s Angela Merkel more isolated in Europe

Is the Socialist Hollande More Economically Compatible than Sarkozy

Americans and Europeans are not so different after all.
Obama is promising the same as Hollande has promised the French, and it won Hollande an election.
Free entitlements and high taxes on the rich.
Both Hollande and Obama argue that if you build up the public sector, you will stimulate the economy.
That is not exactly correct.
Some government funded programs will do that:
– Government investment in infrastructure
– High speed internet.
– Quality education
These help the economy, because they support private enterprise.
Taxing your job creators at 75%, like Hollande wants to do, does not support business and does not stimulate the economy.
and having the government do everything for you, does not stimulate growth …… it leads to bankruptcy.
Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said “socialism fails when you run out of other people’s money”

What’s Wrong With This Picture

What's Wrong with this Picture?

You guessed it, of the people celebrating about the new French election,
only ONE french flag …..in a myriad of other countries flags…

What does this mean?
Sarkozy was right about borders, …but too late, France is already taken over by people from other countries who now celebrate, that French citizens will support them, and the evil french business owner will be taxed 75% to support them, those who fled the poverty in their own country, to devour other countries, and in this case… France…

Merci beaucoup!

Hollande’s Plane Hit by Lightening

Immediately after Francois Hollande was sworn in as France’s new President, he left for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany.However, Hollande’s plane was force to turn back to Paris after it was hit by lightening.No one was injured in the incident and Hollande was soon on his way to Berlin again.Hollande has made it known he wants to renegotiate the EU Fiscal Pact.Saying today, “To our partners, I will propose a new pact that links a necessary reduction in public debt with indispensable economic stimulus.”How Hollande plans to create this “economic stimulus” without increasing public debt is less clear.Chancellor Merkel, who is known as the Iron Chancellor, has already told Hollande the EU pact is not up for re-negotiation, and she is keen to see EU governments stick to their austerity obligations. 

 

NEWS: – France’s Sarkozy hit by defections and poll plunge

France’s Sarkozy hit by defections and poll plunge

By Brian Love

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s re-election hopes suffered a double setback four days from the first round of voting when a string of public defections compounded the impression that his tumble in opinion polls is pushing victory beyond reach.

Former town planning minister Fadela Amara joined a growing list of political figures to desert the conservative Sarkozy and announce they will vote for his arch-rival, Socialist frontrunner Francois Hollande.

That followed the most devastating opinion poll for weeks, which showed Hollande has opened a five-point lead over Sarkozy in the first ballot next Sunday, and the Socialist has a yawning 16-point advantage in voting intentions for the May 6 runoff.

After a week of steady poll gains for Hollande, the CSA survey released on Thursday night gave him 29 percent of the first round vote, up two points from the institute’s previous survey, versus 24 percent for Sarkozy, down two points.

Sarkozy put on a brave face when asked during an interview on BFM TV what he thought of the latest poll showing Hollande on course to become the first Socialist president since Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.

“There’s not much point in commenting (on the polls) when they’re good and then commenting on the others because they’re bad,” he said.

Amara, one of the left-of-centre figures Sarkozy recruited to government in the first years after his 2007 election, joined Corinne Lepage, an ecologist former environment minister in a previous centre-right government, who said she would back Hollande because Sarkozy had lurched too far to the right.

Sarkozy’s conservative predecessor Jacques Chirac, 79, is also planning to vote for Hollande, according to the man who helped him write an autobiography after 12 years as head of state from 1995 until 2007. Sarkozy said people should leave the old man in peace and not “manipulate” him.

DEFECTORS

Others who have said they will vote Hollande despite having served in office under Sarkozy or Chirac include former high commissioner on poverty Martin Hirsch, equal opportunities junior minister Azouz Begag and former culture minister Jean-Jacques Aillagon.

Sarkozy’s poll standing improved in the weeks following the launch of his re-election campaign in mid-February and at one stage most surveys showed him topping the first round, but not a single poll has shown Hollande losing the runoff.

In the past week however, Hollande has recovered and Sarkozy slipped in almost all polls. Far-right candidate Marine Le Pen has strengthened her position in third place with 17 percent in the CSA poll, followed by hard-left firebrand Jean-Luc Melenchon on 15 percent and centrist Francois Bayrou on 10.

Bayrou, who has not said whom he back if as expected he is eliminated on Sunday’s first ballot, played down the defectors to Hollande as “those who always want their hands on the lever, to be on side with the powers that be”.

“You can’t build a country with people who are here one day and there the next,” he said.

Asked whether he might announce between the two rounds his intention to appoint Bayrou prime minister if re-elected, Sarkozy said: “I’m waiting to see the first round and I tell you that it’s not impossible that I’ll do that.”

Hollande warned his supporters against complacency or prematurely carving up government posts and reaffirmed in a France Inter radio interview that he would renegotiate a European budget discipline treaty to give priority to restoring growth, without which it would be impossible to reduce debt.

(Additional reporting By Brian Love, Leigh Thomas, Emmanuel Jarry, Yann Le Guernigou and Patrick Vignal; Editing by Paul Taylor)

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