With the determination that characterizes

François Bayrou and Martine Aubry shattered and dispute after their breakup in last Sunday's European election; a trade union front weakened and divided in the aftermath of the Saturday action day marked by a very small mobilization: a boulevard opens before Nicolas Sarkozy. And the head of State will be committed as early as this week. With the determination that characterizes. But also with some caution. Because the President of the Republic is aware that the June 7 election was marked by record abstention, particularly among young people and workers. And because he knows that social discontent couve, despite the scant parades this weekend. "The weakness of these events must not be construed as the demise of concerns about the crisis since 1929" noted Brice Hortefeux, Minister of labour on iTélé yesterday. Unemployment will continue to climb. And the economic policy of the Government is now considered "negative" by 61 of the French, according to the latest barometer BVA - "Les Echos" - France Info-BPI. Today, in a solemn speech to the international organization of work (ILO), Geneva, Nicolas Sarkozy will strive to demonstrate that it has fully integrated the social dimension of the current recession. A way for him to send signals to employees. A failure to boost the minimum wage and measures of recovery by the consumer, as had demanded, in vain, the unions for months. The President will present the broad lines of the "new world social order" he wants to see out of the crisis, said in his entourage.

Economic and social issues

Nicolas Sarkozy intends to make this intervention an "Act of its international action", in registering as "the initiator of the movement of social regulation", which according to him, must complement the financial and economic regulation process launched at the Summit of g-20 London, early April, said the Elysee. "The economic topics and social issues must be addressed together at the international level, as we have done in France." It should defend the role of the ILO in this movement, favouring including it on the table at the next G20, on 24 and 25 September in Pittsburgh, in the United States. To support his statements, the head of State could invite, today in Geneva, the countries which have not ratified 8 fundamental standards established by the ILO (prohibition of forced labour and children, freedom of Association, etc.) to run in the "fight against distortions in world trade." Will it go up to advocate against the recalcitrant trade sanctions, as requested by the Organization Unlikely, the United States, the Japan, the India and China are party, for various reasons, some signatories complained...

Employment and social protection should be, also, in the heart of the speech the President speak, next Monday, at Versailles, before Parliament in Congress. An address to both Chambers, unprecedented under the Fifth Republic, which will mark "a new phase in the implementation of the programme of the President", warned yesterday, his Special Advisor Henri Guaino, on Europe 1. A new stage that is will also more "green", with a return marked with the problems of the environment and climate change, including with a view to the adoption to the Parliament of Grenelle 2 and the Copenhagen negotiations in December.

It will also be for Nicolas Sarkozy to show that it took into account the success of Europe ecology in the European elections and, more generally, that it is listening to the French. Without neglecting his electorate, including rural. To offset the Grand Paris project, sometimes poorly perceived in the province, it should focus, at Versailles, on the development of the territory.

Between these two "founding" speech, Nicolas Sarkozy will travel to the funeral of Omar Bongo in Gabon and at the EU Summit in Brussels. While pursuing his consultations with the various party leaders. To take the heat. And perhaps, also, to avert threats of boycott of the meeting of the Congress brandished, this weekend, by some green, Socialist and Communist deputies.