in the last two years, 13 governments in the european union have either collapsed or been voted out of power. today, french president nicolas sarkozy is caught in a runoff with francois hollande that cast him his job. under sarkozy, france s unemployment climbing to 10%, while economic growth ground to a halt. also today, greece, a national election taking place in a society crushed by debt. greek unemployment now at 21%. up from just 9% before bailouts and austerity brought protesters to the streets. and as no other network can, we brought together cnn s best from around the world. veteran business correspondent john defterios from abu dhabi, he ll break down what you need to know. jim bittermann is live from paris at the headquarters of now defeated french president nicolas sarkozy. he just conceded to socialist francois hollande. matthew chance is in athens at the center of an election that also took place today, greek voters deciding whether they are willing to accept tou
had record lows. it s human nature to try to make yourself look good but sometimes, sometimes it s human to insist things aren t so bad. try telling a guy out of the job about the jobs you re creating or saving. he ain t seeing it. forgive him if he is upset you keep bragging about it. try telling him, it was worse when you got in office. he still doesn t have an office, or a job, or anything. try telling him that without stimulus things would be a lot worse now. and all on the same day, the woman who helped craft the stimulus is leaving us now. christina romer said the stimulus would keep unemployment climbing above 8% leaving washington with it around 9.5%. americans aren t eating it but ib creasingly they increasingly they think those piling on the crap are idiots and worse liars. man, oh, man. just read them and weep. that will do it here. about an hour from now on the fox business network where
didn t expect from the president next week. any idea what that might be? what can he do to turn this around? is. well, you know, they ve already kind of previewed or hinted at various pieces of this new plan and not really much of it is new whether it be tweaks of a payroll tax cut, an extension of that which is not new. there s one new program that the state of georgia has been working on about worker training, getting people who are unemployed, getting them in to the work force that republicans like eric cantor have pushed before. the president s aides have suggested maybe he ll adopt that proposal which would be somewhat new. but the bottom line is he s tried a lot of this before, and so far based on this new jobs report it s clear it hasn t worked. bottom line, we wish it could be better. ed henry, reporting from the white house, good to see you. jamie: if you were to look over the last eight months, you would see unemployment climbing again as the economy slowed down this week