Photo Gallery Sarkozy's Marathon
Three months before the election, most opinion polls show conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy trailing Francois Hollande, the Socialist Party (PS) candidate.
Nicolas Sarkozy's agenda these days is something of a political marathon. On Monday, there was a meeting with Spain's Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy...
...On Tuesday, a photo opportunity with farmers in southwestern France...
...on Wednesday an invitation to labor and business leaders for a "crisis summit" in Paris. On Thursday he had scheduled a welcome address to companies in Lyon, and on Friday he was to greet France's diplomatic corps.
The four-hour meeting on Wednesday on unemployment failed to deliver agreements on some of the major sticking points. While Sarkozy was meeting with union leaders, workers took to the streets in Paris.
