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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt urged the front-running French presidential candidate Francois Hollande on Saturday to take account of European economic conditions if he wins a presidential poll.
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I would have thought this is one of the things the French electors are considering in making their choice...?
Mr Bildt is a little bumptious sometimes
Bildt is afraid of people finally discovering what he was up to with Lundin Petroleum and massacres in Sudan!
Thanks to John Negroponte, Frank Wisner, Jr., and their Franco-American Foundation, Sarkozy was manipulated into power.
No go this time around...........
Francois Hollande might very well be good for France. I thought the same of Obama in the USA and well I was really wrong there. Time will tell.
Bye.
Now to get on with this topic. Buffoon Bidlt and the rest of his cronies are the people that really need a wakeup call. He is fast to criticise other people outside of Sweden yet fails to look in his own back yard. His is considered as an arrogant joke by most of the world's leaders that come in contact with him.
PS don't mention oil.
I Have Always Stated over the Last 3 Years That EURO Bonds Is the Answer
and the New Guy in France said that Too
I have done the Math and Calculations Germany have sucked the Life out of the EZ for their Own Benifit , Ass Holes !