France's freshly inaugurated Socialist president Francois Hollande is catapulted to stardom because of the ailing Euro zone, and coincided with the vote in Greece that spawned the current political chaos in Athens and moved Greece closer to the possibility of abandoning the euro.
Francois Hollande became president of France on Tuesday in a ceremony steeped in tradition, taking over a country worried about Europe's future and pledging to make it a fairer place.