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  I suspect the vast majority of EU Leaders would prefer Mr Sarkozy to win through. We have already seen German Chancellor Angela Merkel endorsing Sarkozy in this Election, an endorsement which was greeted with much tut tutting in France...
  " keep out of it" screamed Hollande's supporters.
  
  The reason why most EU leaders would prefer Sarkozy to remain is that he is very much involved in the current reforms, very much a main player alongside Merkel. Very much a signatory to all the treaties or aspects thereof. Things seemed to have stabilised a tad in the EU and this stabilisation is needed by all to gather pace and momentum. Disrupting the status quo now might be counter productive.
  
  But an Election is an Election. And National Elections still of course play a huge part, and the EU will just have to deal with the outcome.
  
  Hollande has said that he will seek to renogotiate certain aspects of the fiscal treaties, but as far as I know has no ambition to unsettle the Euro. If Socialist Hollande wins...he may have a strange bedfellow in the shape of David Cameron, who also is at odds with some aspects of the treaty. We could have a Conservative-Socialist Alliance...truly bewildering! If the Tory backbenchers were dead they would be swivelling in their graves! Fraternising with Socialists...heavens!!

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