Sarkozy heads the Union Pour un Mouvement Populaire ("Union for a Popular Movement," or UMP) and is known as a high-energy, blunt-talking conservative whose favorite issues include immigration reform, jobs, law and order, and French national identity. Sarkozy was only 28 when he became mayor of the well-to-do suburb Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1983; he won national acclaim in 1993 after schoolchildren in Neuilly were taken hostage by a man calling himself the Human Bomb, and Sarkozy negotiated directly with the man for their release. Sarkozy's economic liberalism has its limits, however: for one thing, he remains an avowed interventionist on industrial policy. And given the perilous state of French public finances, he may be overly optimistic about the prospects for cutting taxes. Sarkozy also cast himself in the role as Middle East peacemaker. Sarkozy basked in role as skilful director of world diplomacy.
Sarkozy claims to seek to alter the psychology of France and bring back the conservative values of merit, work and authority. He wants to turn France back to pre-May 1968 values and change the so-called slacker mentality it produced. Sarkozy is expected to use the ump post for the same purpose. Sarkozy married his first wife, Marie-Dominique Culioli , in 1982 but their marriage ended in divorce in 1996 . They divorced in 2007 .
Sarkozy looking after the financial problems that either Paulson or Brown. He appears to be looking after the French residents and telling us that we will not lose a single euro if we bank in a French bank. Sarkozy is also likely to stick to the trusted model of the Franco-German alliance and will push for more, not less, centralization of political power in Europe. Sarkozy has been there dozens of times. As the minister of the interior, Sarkozy is responsible both for keeping order in the banlieues and for organizing France's religions, particularly the 5 million or so Muslims whom he has with difficulty shepherded into the French religion-and-state system, by means of the French Council of the Muslim Faith, which he launched two years ago.
