13/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - Midnight Friday 6 February was the deadline for French Socialist Party applications of candidacy for the European elections. The party received some 600 letters of candidature, three times more than for the last elections in 2004. A senior member of the party leadership explains this is due to the feeling that outgoing members will not necessarily have their place renewed. Another party leader believes, for her part, that, whenever someone becomes a card-carrying...