Watershed moment for Europe as France and Greece head for the polls
France and Greece both go to the urns on Sunday for crucial elections that will, whatever the results, have a significant effect on the future of the EU’s approach to the economic crisis. While the final play-off in the French presidential elections on May 6th could produce a turning point in the use of blanket austerity measures to nurse already strangled EU economies back to health, the Greek legislative elections are in effect a referendum on the country’s continued membership of the eurozone. Mediapart’s Brussels correspondent Ludovic Lamant reports on what is likely to be a watershed moment for Europe.
InIn what may prove to be a watershed moment, France and Greece both go to the urns on Sunday for elections that will, whoever wins in either country, have a significant effect on the future of Europe’s approach to the economic crisis, writes Mediapart's Brussels correspondent, Ludovic Lamant.
