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Jacques Chirac

, founder of the centre-right (and Gaullist in origin) Rally for the Republic party, was first elected president in May 1995. From 1997 to 2002 he “cohabited” with Lionel Jospin, the Socialist prime minister. Mr Chirac easily won the final round of the 2002 presidential elections against Jean-Marie Le Pen of the anti- immigrant National Front party in May, and in June his centre-right coalition won an absolute majority in parliamentary elections.

The plans of Mr Chirac and his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, include cutting income tax, making the 35-hour week more flexible and building new prisons to combat crime. This has not made them popular: Mr Raffarin’s proposals to reform public-sector pensions were met by public opposition and strikes in May and June 2003, and in March 2004, France largely voted Socialist in regional elections.

Mr Chirac is better known for setting his country’s foreign policy. In 2003 he allied with Gerhard Schroeder (while quarreling with Tony Blair and angering George Bush) on issues such as EU agricultural subsidies and Iraq. But Mr Chirac and the European Commission rarely agree, especially on the subject of France's budget deficits. Mr Chirac visited Algeria, France‘s former colony, in March 2003, but later came under fire from Muslim countries for backing a proposed ban on headscarves in French schools.

"There is no ready-made formula for democracy readily transposable from one country to another. Democracy is not a method, it is a culture. For democracy to take root solidly and durably in the Arab world, it must be an Arab democracy before all else."

Jacques Chirac

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... position was closer to that of mainstream Europe - which, as led by President Jacques Chirac of France, tended to be more "doveish" than "hawkish". ...
... position was closer to that of mainstream Europe - which, as led by President Jacques Chirac of France, tended to be more 'doveish' than 'hawkish'. ...
... the celebrations of the French soccer cup finals, dressed as a player, and even received personal congratulations from then-President Jacques Chirac. ...
One person named was Mr Sarkozy, then finance minister under President Jacques Chirac. (Mr de Villepin was interior minister.) But the list of names was ...

But the European Union of Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero and Silvio Berlusconi is a different EU than that of Jacques Chirac, ...
As a member of President Jacques Chirac's Foreign Policy Team (1995-1998), François Delattre was responsible for European and trans-Atlantic defence and ...
Tony Blair, Bush, Jacques Chirac, Koizumi and Gerhard Schroeder were regular summiteers who could use the informality of these annual gatherings at the G8 ...
Hubert Védrine, who served as foreign minister under Jacques Chirac, has argued that Obama will continue to take American leadership in the world as a given ...
Bernadette Chirac, wife of former President Jacques Chirac, ran a yearly campaign to collect funds for hospitals. Mr Sarkozy's third wife intimated that she ...
Villepin, 55, became foreign minister after former President Jacques Chirac's reelection in 2002. He was appointed prime minister in 2005.
Birth of French statesman Jacques Chirac; prime minister in 1974 and again in 1986, he became president in 1995 succeeding Francois Mitterrand. ...
... scholar/author; Vin Scully (1927-), sportscaster, is 81; Jacques Chirac (1932-), French president, is 76; Joel Coen (1954-), producer/screenwriter, ...
In 1995, former French President Jacques Chirac officially recognised France's responsibility in the deportation of Jews during WWII. ...
Dame Yve Buckland, chair, Consumer Council for Water, 52; M Jacques Chirac, President of France, 1995-2007, 76; Sir Derek Day, High Commissioner to Canada, ...
... King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, former French President Jacques Chirac, Chinese President Jiang Zemin, Pope John Paul II, President Hosni Mubarak ...
The museum was the grand project of former President Jacques Chirac, who loved anthropology and embraced the idea of a colloquy of civilizations, ...
In historical terms, the socialists are back to kind of infighting seen between Jacques Chirac, Raymond Barre, and Valéry Giscard d'Estaing that doomed the ...
Jacques Jacques Chirac's knowledge of the deal is implicated too. Mitterand, Minister Pasqua and others were convicted in 2004 of tax evasion. ...
... French presidents François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, liberal and pro-Arab writers and scholars such as Jonathan Cook, Noam Chomsky, David Hirst, ...
Jacques Chirac caused controversy when he resumed tests around atolls in French Polynesia in the south Pacific shortly after being elected president in 1995 ...
De Villepin, who vied with Sarkozy to become Jacques Chirac's successor when both were serving as ministers, was the former president's righthand man for ...
It boasts of a distinguished list of guests including Mick Jagger, Jacques Chirac, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent & Katharine, Duchess of Kent, ...
She failed to topple Sarkozy, a minister in Jacques Chirac's unpopular government. "They think she cost them the election last year, and she could do it ...
At the time, Villepin and Sarkozy were rivals to succeed then President Jacques Chirac. Sarkozy has declared himself a civil plaintiff in the case. ...
The socialists have lost the last three presidential elections, two to Jacques Chirac and one to Sarkozy. They have been plagued by divisions since their ...
French photographer Bettina Rheims, whose previous assignments included Jacques Chirac's official portrait, took the pictures of 34-year-old Olga in a ...
Regardless of Sarkozy's potential for long-term success, he has arguably done more already than his predecessor Jacques Chirac to undermine confidence in ...
French President Jacques Chirac was undermined in 2003 by these parvenus who slavishly hung on every lie coming out of the US concerning Iraqi WMDs, ...
The European Defence Force initiative came therefore primarily from Tony Blair and Jacques Chirac in one of their rare moments of accord. ...
One of the people most incensed by Google Book Search was the former French President Jacques Chirac, who started a race with the Anglo-Saxons to digitalise ...
Jean-David Levitte, diplomatic adviser to President Nicolas Sarkozy, already tried to negotiate the strategic move under the presidency of Jacques Chirac, ...
A protégé of former President Jacques Chirac and longstanding political rival of Sarkozy, Villepin has denied all charges of "complicity in calumnious ...
Jacques Chirac, right, then mayor of Paris, surveys the damage after the bombing on Oct. 6, 1980. Ottawa professor Hassan Diab, 54, faces extradition to ...
A protégé of former President Jacques Chirac and longstanding political rival of Sarkozy, Villepin has denied all charges of "complicity in calumnious ...
Like predecessor Jacques Chirac, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has warm relations with Ben Ali, declaring during an April visit to Tunis: In a country ...
French President Jacques Chirac was undermined in 2003 by these parvenus who slavishly hung on every lie coming out of the US concerning Iraqi WMDs, ...
... to reach the second round of voting, letting Jean-Marie Le Pen (who belongs to the far right party "le Front National"), compete against Jacques Chirac. ...
After 9/11 she was the first foreign correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and Pakistani president ...
So if you're trying to find the phone number for Jacques Chirac or Gerard Depardieu without paging through a lengthy list of contacts, you're in luck. ...
Breton was finance minister under former President Jacques Chirac from February 2005 to May 2007. Before that he was CEO of France Telecom (FR:013330: news, ...

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