"President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced a €430 million (£360m) plan to drive down unemployment and restart growth, a move criticised as a blatant attempt to boost his popularity three months before France’s presidential election.
With the unemployment rate pushing 10 per cent and the recent downgrade of France’s credit rating by Standard & Poor’s, the Socialist candidate, François Hollande, is hitting the president hard, saying the financial crisis reflects Mr Sarkozy’s failed economic stewardship."
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