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Fifteen years after the collapse of the US investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered a devastating global financial crisis, the banking system is in trouble again. Central bankers and financial regulators each seem to bear some of the blame for the recent tumult, but there is significant disagreement over how much – and what, if anything, can be done to avoid a deeper crisis.
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当前，法国正陷入混乱之中。根据民意调查显示，萨科奇的支持率在近几十年法国总统中处于最低。上周两名内阁部长辞职之后，议会和媒体还在穷追猛打，他们指控一名内阁部长在萨科奇的总统竞选筹款中涉嫌腐败。
一些部长们滥用公款的行为受到舆论的谴责。显然，目前整个法国政坛的风气都已败坏，议会更为恶劣，整个政府面临不信任投票下台的危险。但是，萨科奇的总统任期是到2012年，这个由戴高乐将军一手创建的民主政体依旧牢固不破。况且，主要发对党社会党的支持率也不足以使总统提前下台。
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