All this on GPS Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. On Fareed Zakaria GPS this week: The fallout from Francois Hollande’s win in France; Peter Mandelson, Josef Joffe, Elaine Sciolino and David Frum's feisty debate on Europe; how Israel has anointed a "King" and BlackRock Chairman & CEO Larry Fink's take on the global economy. And: an exclusive interview with the World Bank's Robert Zoellick. In his first “exit interview,” the outgoing World Bank president weighs in on the rumors that Mitt Romney would offer him the Secretary of State job if Romney wins the presidency: FAREED ZAKARIA: It's no secret, Bob, that many people think if Mitt Romney were elected president, he would turn to you, perhaps, to be Secretary of State, ... Continue reading →
Click here to download TV listings for the week of May 13 - 19 in PDF format TV listings for the week of May 13 - 19 in PDF format are also available here This week's TV Movies SATURDAY Good Morning America (N) 7 a.m. KABC McLaughlin Group (N) 6:30 p.m. KCET The Chris Matthews Show Gay marriage; Romney bullying story: Andrew Sullivan; Howard Fineman; Gloria Borger; Nia-Malika Henderson (N) 5:30 a.m. KNBC SUNDAY Today (N) 6 a.m. KNBC Good Morning America (N) 6 a.m. KABC State of the Union General election; Democratic agenda in Congress; jobs and the economy: Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.); Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas). General election; jobs and the economy: Gov. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.). Mitt Romney's Liberty University speech; President ... Continue reading →
French and American presidential elections happen on the same year as rarely as observations of Halley's Comet, a few times each century. The last instance was 1988, when socialist incumbent president Francois Mitterrand was reelected in France and George H.W. Bush was elected in the U.S. More than an ocean separates both electoral contests today: a radically different electoral system; a French state that is expected to do everything vs. an American state that is expected to do as little as possible; a president from the right with a docile parliamentary majority in France vs. a president from the left with a hostile parliamentary majority in the U.S. And yet, despite these fundamental differences, some of the lessons from Sunday's defeat of French president Nicolas ... Continue reading →
Thierry Zoccolan / AFP / Getty ImagesFrance's Socialist Party (PS) candidate for the 2012 French presidential election Francois Hollande is picture during a campaign meeting on April 12, 2012 in Clermont-Ferrand.This is an extended version of TIME’s interview with Socialist Party candidate and Elysée frontrunner François Hollande. A condensed text is published in the international editions of TIME (and available to subscribers here). French Socialist presidential candidate François Hollande is projected by polls to beat incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy in the runoff stage of voting in France’s presidential election on May 6. He spoke with TIME’s Bruce Crumley about his main opponent, his policy priorities and his plans for France and Europe. Why doesn’t a leader like Nicolas Sarkozy — who’s viewed as a successful statesman ... Continue reading →
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PARIS — French Socialist Francois Hollande appeared headed to victory over President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to exit polls of voters released by Swiss and Belgian news media.Those polls showed Hollande with 52 to 53 percent of the vote in an election that turned on solutions for Europe's economic crisis amid record unemployment in France.French voters were still headed to cast their ballots when the exit polls were released in the early evening _ the French polls close at 8 p.m. local time, 2 p.m. Eastern _ but the outcome seemed all but certain. Results in Greece, where voters were selecting new members of parliament on Sunday, also pointed to an upheaval for that country's current leaders. Early polls suggested the country's two leading parties would, ... Continue reading →
Stanley Pignal, private equity correspondent for the Financial Times, discusses the French presidential election and what the outcome could mean for the Euro. Continue reading →
