Citing the legitimacy of the French goverment and that of the European Union as well as the credibility of France abroad, the French Prime Minister, Manuel Valls, defended Tuesday the biggest cuts in public spending in modern French history.
Mr. Valls made his appeal after the vote that approved the cuts was led by a broken alliance between the National Assembly and the Socialist Party (PS ) of France. Valls pushed through a vote of 265 yeas against 232 nays and 41 abstentions in the ranks of PS.
Although his administration was heavily influenced by Brussels, Valls presented his Stability Triennial Program as an example of “France’s sovereignty” and as an effort to reduce the country’s deficit that was born in Paris .... http://real-agenda.com
