Breaking news in French politics. Nicolas Sarkozy has been found guilty in a corruption case (millions of euros of illicit funds from the late Libyan leader Gaddafi dedicated to financing his campaign). Five years behind bars. Will he really go to jail? Politicians always find some trick to avoid what usual citizens can expect to endure. However, this sentence should worry French people, as it has deeper implications that French politicians and journalists do not seem to notice. Sarkozy has always been a divisive personality, so they are basically all either cheering or crying.

Indeed, Sarkozy was a terrible president. The list of his corruption scandals is too long to mention and one could argue that corruption is a fairly common thing among politicians. But when it comes to domestic affairs, the French people owe him… hm… a lot. I’ll give just a few examples. First and foremost, the adoption of the Treaty of Lisbon, a pale copy of the project establishing a Constitution for the EU that the French people had rejected.........

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