A Comment About

Paris Lights: Sarkozy Charts A New Foreign Policy Course

September 1, 2007 - 12:05 am - by Nidra Poller, PJM Editor, Paris
MG
2007-09-01 16:40:10

I am definitely and American non-jerk. I, too, believe that M. Sarkozy is a breath of fresh air.

I am insufficiently acquainted with French governance, so I have a question for the commentariat:

To what extent can the bureaucracies stymie M. Sarkozy? Does France have a politically insulated “civil service” akin to the US?

Put another way — if some civil “servant” works to stymie M. Sarkozy’s foreign policy, what recourse does he have to remove the “servant”?

Best Regards,