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Mon 02 Feb 2009Leaders unsure of need for change will be replaced
NICOLAS SARKOZY, for the first time in his presidential career, had no neat solutions or pat answers to offer in a 90-minute broadcast last Thursday night. The “man with the answers” struggled even to formulate convincing questions.
It is actually difficult to blame him or his peers – Brian Cowen, Gordon Brown and others – for we are embarked on a global economic rollercoaster, a transformational revolution that we cannot yet even accurately describe, never mind control.
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