> precisely due to Sarkozy's emphasis on national identity and
> 'Frenchness'.
Which is exactly why I'd be very skeptical, rather than openly fawning, when Sarkozy starts talking about humane ways of measuring GDP. Happiness and well-being could very well be achieved by, say, ridding France of its migrant problems, or by mass gentrification of the banlieus. As one would expect from the leader of a capitalist center, everything Sarkozy says here is consonant with nationalism and the capital-labor relation.