PARIS — Before he became France’s president in 2012, François Hollande’s only foreign experience had been a drive from New York to California at age 20 while researching a report on U.S. fast food and, a few years later, an eight-month internship at the French embassy in Algiers.
That’s some distance from holding France’s nuclear launch codes and sending Mirage fighter jets on faraway bombing missions. But now Hollande is surprising French diplomats and foreign governments with his bold approach to foreign policy, and uninhibited use of French troops abroad — from Africa to the Middle East.
Hollande, 61, was not the …read more
Source: European Voice
