Mr Hollande's defenders say he is a pragmatist with a more moderate programme than Mitterrand's.

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Mr. Posner said he's not a point advocate but simply a pragmatist.

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Throughout his life, from a poor home in Paris through night-school classes in economics to his pre-Brussels spell as France's minister of finance, he has been a pragmatist who has got things done.

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