"In France, Chirac, whose term is up in 2007, teeters on the threshold of lame duck status. He has a rival in Nicolas Sarkozy, president of their Gaullist party, who argues that the glorious no-risk, no-change, no-growth French social model for Europe is a non-export product that has meant more than 10 percent French unemployed. As for Chirac's view of a multipolar world, divided into irreconcilable groupings like Europe, China and the United States, Sarkozy dismisses it as confrontational and artificial"
I've been crying all day, Crockydile(tm) tears for jockstrapchirac :)