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“The incredible shrinking President,” headlines The Economist. For the London weekly, Nicolas Sarkozy was once Napoleon on horseback, but now he is only a pair of legs and a bicorne hat in the shadow of his attractive wife. What’s gone wrong? In 2007, Sarkozy “dared to tell the French what they did not care to hear: that they should work more, take more risks, promote more ethnic minorities, be nicer to America.” But now, as millions of French march against his “timid” pension reform, “Mr Sarkozy seems to be a shadow of the reformer he once was on economic affairs and a caricature of the tough-cop leader on social matters.”
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