Sarkozy breaks silence after French downgrade

Nicolas Sarkozy has called on French people to resist and fight in the face of the crisis, two days after France saw its credit rating downgraded by a leading agency, Standard & Poor's. Speaking after paying tribute to a leading political figure under Charles de Gaulle on the 100th anniversary of his birth, the president's message had a wartime ring to it. ... http://www.euronews.net/