Hollande sets France and Germany on collision course

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Austerity strategy poised on a knife-edge as Socialists under François Hollande look set to storm the Elysée Palace in French election

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Angela Merkel's agenda of forcing through austerity programmes from Athens to Dublin faced its toughest test yet with the success of François Hollande in the first round of French presidential elections, reports The Independent.