What will Sarkozy policy mean for DLRP?

[Cousin Orville]

France is entering a new era with new leadership. I wonder how it will imapct the resort from the perspective of labor, allowing development, taxation, tourism, etc.

Any thoughts from our overseas chatters? Vive la difference!!!

[pussnboots]

Well, don't expect to marry your same-sex partner there any time soon.

...which doesn't make sense, because A. they don't have a wedding service and B. you'd have to be French for that to work even if it was legal, but I'm just trying to work this into the conversation because it's the only thing I care about, haha. But oh well.

[loaloa]

Originally Posted by Cousin Orville

France is entering a new era with new leadership. I wonder how it will imapct the resort from the perspective of labor, allowing development, taxation, tourism, etc.

Any thoughts from our overseas chatters? Vive la difference!!!

Sarkozy election - although all his good "intentions" he can have for french economy ( economy that is not as bad as he can say , as france is the 6 or 7th biggest economy in the world ) is a disaster.
It's not like we have elected a new " Bush" , but not that far. For sure , Sarkozy will be a better allied than Chirac for the united states, but i think that Sarkozy is going to divide the country , even if it's not his intention - nearly half ( 46,9% ) voted for Segolene Royal ( left wing ) tonight.
To answer your question about DLRP, it will change nothing, as what the park need the most is money , and Sarkozy is not going to give them, the best he will do is - if the park go through new financial problems - to help them to have new loan or stuff like that. And may be the legislation on labor will change, which means that the park will save - always "may be" - some money, but cast members won't be paid more, believe me.
To come back to him, he did a "victory" speech tonight, and suddenly i understood: Sarkozy like power, no doubt about that, but his obsession his not for power, it's for the mark - the "trace" ? - he will leave in history.
Of course the tough part will begin for him, now, as the reality of the rest of the world will put "limits" to what he would like to do, and one thing is sure, this guy don't like limits....so, we'll see what happen, but i'm not very optimistic, i think at the end we will have half of the country against the other one.
France is a country almost impossible to rule, there is a lot of reasons for that, but it's too long to explain here...
there is a big part of the french people who is, let's say, "venusian" - i mean: who like to enjoy simple things of life, not necessarily mad about "working more to make more money" ( like Sarkozy would say), and i don't think this part of france will agree on Sarkozy coming politic, because they don't care to be the number 4 more powerful country in the world instead to be number 6 , they think it's insane ( and i think they're right ) . So, there will be a certain form of resistance, but having france becoming a new super power country in the future is a joke.
The future, economically speaking, is in Asia, not in france, not in europe, and may be not even in America.

[Westsider]

What's this 35 hour work week thing I've been hearing about? Does that mean you can only work 35 hours per week? What if you want to work more?

That seems very strange to me, and it seems like it would really put a cramp in productivity and wages and the buying power of the workers. As an hourly Cast Member I can't imagine being limited to only 35 hours per week.

If you want to work more than 35 hours per week in France, can you?

[loaloa]

Originally Posted by Westsider

What's this 35 hour work week thing I've been hearing about? Does that mean you can only work 35 hours per week? What if you want to work more?

That seems very strange to me, and it seems like it would really put a cramp in productivity and wages and the buying power of the workers. As an hourly Cast Member I can't imagine being limited to only 35 hours per week.

If you want to work more than 35 hours per week in France, can you?

Yes, it's always possible to work more - in "additional hours " - if the company where you're working is asking you because they need it, but the "legal" working time per week is 35 hours since 6-7 years
Sarkozy will not change that, but he wants to give the possibility to somebody who want to work more to do it
this is one of the rare points of his program that almost everybody agree with.

[Cousin Orville]

Originally Posted by loaloa

Sarkozy election - although all his good "intentions" he can have for french economy ( economy that is not as bad as he can say , as france is the 6 or 7th biggest economy in the world ) is a disaster.

Did you realize that the State of California economy "as a nation" is right behind France.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy...pendent_nation

[Olivier]

I feel very proud and happy (although I have a terrible headache after drinking too much Champagne last night... ).
interestingly, towns around Disneyland Resort Paris voted for Sarkozy :

Chessy : Sarkozy 59,7 %
Serris (Val d'Europe) : Sarkozy 54,5 %
Montévrain : Sarkozy 60 %
Bailly-Romainvilliers : Sarkozy 60,2 %
Magny-le-Hongre (selected hotels: Holiday Inn, Dream Castle...) : Sarkozy : 64,43 %
Coupvray : Sarkozy 59,9 %

[Tom Chaney]

I'm intrigued by the notion that Sarkozy will divide the nation due to the fact that nearly half voted against him. That really wasn't his fault, was it? It sounds like the nation was already divided and reflected that situation in their vote. He's not doing the dividing... the population has already done that work for him. But the division was not quite equal, was it?

Nearly half of the voters voted against him. But they lost the election to the "over half" of the voters that did vote for him. The losers can protest and complain all they want. That is their right. They do, however, need to recognize that unless they can convince the majority of voters to agree with them... they will continue to lose.

If your philosophy is unpopular with the majority... even though you are convinced you are right... you are lost.

The person with the most votes won. Deal with it.

[loaloa]

Originally Posted by Tom Chaney

I'm intrigued by the notion that Sarkozy will divide the nation due to the fact that nearly half voted against him. That really wasn't his fault, was it? It sounds like the nation was already divided and reflected that situation in their vote. He's not doing the dividing... the population has already done that work for him. But the division was not quite equal, was it?

You're right, the nation is already divided , like most of the occidental countries, as 53% voted for him, and 47% for Royal, but that's not what i was meaning.
Until now, the country was divided, but , if i can say , "peacefully". Sometime we had some strikes, or they demonstrate, etc..the usual stuff , except the suburbs riots we had two years ago, which are extremely rare.
But , here, what may happen - but not sure - is to have two parts each one against the other , but more violently, not necessary in a physical way, but more "subconsciously" , where in their mind half of the people ended to hate the other half, each one for its reasons.
I don't wish it to happen, and it's not even sure that it will , but there is a probability that we see this kind of thing happenning in some years, but let's hope not.
However, i don't think that it's the goal of sarkozy to arrive to this, i think he really mean it when he said he wants to work for all the people, etc...so, we'll see...

[Speedway]

I wanted Royal to win.

[loaloa]

Originally Posted by Speedway

I wanted Royal to win.

Me, too!

[DLRP_bopazot]

not me!

[milo_vhw]

Originally Posted by Speedway

I wanted Royal to win.

dito!

[CaliforniaAdventurer]

I heard that there's only a short window this summer for Sarkozy to pass some legislation before the parliamentary elections will take place. And at that time, his party or his coaltion of parties, I should say, will have to win again. Or else Sarkozy will face divided government, and nothing will get passed.

My high school journalism professor once said "Every time the pendulum swings in one direction, once it goes too far, it starts swinging back."

Those words helped me tolerate the Republicans' 12 year Congressional majority, and 6 years of President Bush with a Republican Congress (2000-2006). Of course, in America we don't like one side to control everything. That's why after two years of President Clinton and a Democratically controlled Congress, in 1994 the Republicans took over Congress.

So this is what I've observed about American politics, do you think Sarkozy will face something similar? The president of France is elected for 5 years, right? How often are parliamentary elections called? Maybe Sarkozy will have a conservative Prime Minister now but eventually, won't the French electorate counter-balance him with someone else? Was Mitterand's coalition in control of French parliament in the end?

[Nine-Eye]

Originally Posted by Speedway

I wanted Royal to win.

So did I !
She turns really pretty when she gets angry