Is France moving to the right?

France is in disarray and the natives are restless. Some are burning cars and the others are wondering why their cars are burning.

I found this article from Emma-Kate Symons "Mood turns darkly towards far Right" (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/printpage/0,5942,17590834,00.html)

The party is over in France. In fact, she writes that "The public mood in France has darkened and veered sharply to the Right in the two months since the Paris riots."

More and more, the French are looking beyond the disgraceful and corrupt Mr. Chirac and listening to Jean-Marie Le Pen:

"Support for Le Pen's National Front - or at least its anti-immigrant ideology - has risen since the riots, sparking fears there will be a repeat of the 2002 presidential election, when the wily demagogue trounced the Left and almost snatched the presidency."

In the meantime, France is dealing with another crisis. The country has a debt problem:

"Against this backdrop, structural reform of the economy - possibly the best long-term source of hope for the unemployed youth of the suburbs - remains stalled.

This week, France woke up to a report into its astronomical public debt, which is now higher than E2000 billion ($3210billion), or 200 per cent of GDP.

"Our state is bankrupt," wrote Pascal Gobry, of the French Institute of Actuaries, in Le Monde.

"Even if it would sell to the Japanese the Palace of Versailles at a high price, the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Museum, all of our patrimony, the French state could not honour her commitments for retirees or salaries. The king is completely nude."

So keep an eye on France. Things are changing in France and no one knows for sure where the country is headed.
In the meantime, don't look for a job in France or leave your car parked outside in Paris.