Pointers for Britain's future governance from the EU

An interesting poll for the upcoming French Presidential elections may be read from Global Scan - it starts as follows: "(Angus Reid Global Scan) – A poll by CSA released by Marianne places Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal as the favourite contenders before the next presidential election in France. In the first sample, interior minister Sarkozy of the centre-right Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) is first with 34 per cent, followed by Royal—the leader of the regional government of Poitou-Charentes and a prospective Socialist Party (PS) candidate—with 26 per cent, and Jean-Marie Le Pen of the National Front (FN) with 12 per cent. Support for UMP member and current prime minister Dominique de Villepin stands at four per cent, down eight points since January. In a second sample, which omits de Villepin as a prospective contender, Sarkozy is first with 34 per cent, followed by Royal with 27 per cent, Le Pen with 12 per cent, Union for French Democracy (UDF) leader François Bayrou with eight per cent, and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) member Olivier Besancenot with six per cent. In a prospective run-off, Royal holds a four-point advantage over Sarkozy." The FT reported on Sarkozy earlier today, that column is to be found at: http://news.ft.com/cms/s/6bef03d2-c50a-11da-b7c1-0000779e2340.html