‘Anybody’s guess which candidate can make French dream a reality’

FRANCE often gets bad press worldwide, being hammered by the US for its political decisions and Britain for its economic ones.

Turn on almost any television channel and you hear a litany of things which are wrong with the country — from its 8.7% unemployment to its 30% corporation tax and the state employing more than half of workers in an economy growing slower than any in the EU.

It is obvious that something is wrong and needs to be fixed. But it is not that easy, as became evident from listening to the presidential candidates over the past few weeks.