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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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Fri. March 19, 2010

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Three French presidents -- Nicolas Sarkozy and predecessors Jacques Chirac and Valery Giscard d'Estaing -- will be present for the ceremony inducting Veil ...
It was not until Jacques Chirac became president in 1995 that the French state accepted its official complicity, prompting much soul-searching over ...
She was the first international correspondent to interview British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and Pakistani president Pervez ...
In his positive review of the newly released film La Rafle, former President Jacques Chirac, who 15 years ago was the first president to recognise French ...
Moreover, if we consider western European countries, we can see that esteemed politicians such as Jacques Chirac, Helmut Kohl and Romano Prodi have also ...
Unfortunately, we do have an inkling: Sarkozy's predecessor, Jacques Chirac, was nicknamed "Monsieur Fifteen Minutes, Shower Included" for his alleged ...
It puts Douglas in an elite company that includes former French President Jacques Chirac, former hockey star Mario Lemieux and singer Celine Dion. ...
... member Vahan Hovhannisyan welcomed visit of second Armenian President Robert Kocharyan to France and his meeting with former President Jacques Chirac. ...
That's when the then-US Secretary of Defense took a public swipe at French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. ...
... Former President Robert Kocharian met with his former French counterpart Jacques Chirac in Paris on Wednesday, his office confirmed the next day. ...
The shell-shocked socialists were forced to plug their noses and ask their supporters to vote for incumbent President Jacques Chirac in the second-round. ...
March 9, Kocharyan held meeting with former French President Jacques Chirac, Soghomonyan said. Asked whether what other officials Kocharyan met in France, ...
Many Americans cheered when the energetic, pro-American Sarkozy succeeded Jacques Chirac. They were stunned to learn that Sarkozy loved American pop culture ...
Jacques Chirac apologised for what happened in 1995, but it has always been murky. The film tells the story of the 1942 round-up by French police of 13000 ...
It took until 1995 for the government (then headed by Jacques Chirac) to admit French complicity in Nazi war crimes. Even today, President Nicolas Sarkozy ...
... building materials group Saint-Gobain who also has high-level political experience as a technical adviser to Jacques Chirac when he was Prime Minister. ...
Sarkozy seemed to have forgotten that his predecessor and compatriot Jacques Chirac cooperated fully with the United States and Canada in the ...
Former President Jacques Chirac yesterday saluted the film's willingness to portray "atrocious images of officials in French uniforms separating mothers ...
When the right was routed at the last regional election in 2004, the then-President Jacques Chirac responded with a cabinet reshuffle. ...
... or misinterpreting President Jacques Chirac in claiming that France would not support any new resolution that gave authorisation for war. ...
The French President showed much less gusto for tasting food and meeting the public than his predecessor Jacques Chirac, who visited the show on Friday, ...
(Let's not forget that Jacques Chirac was, in French terms, a "conservative.") The result is a kind of two-party one-party state: Right-of-center parties ...
... and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect (Let's not forget that Jacques Chirac was, in French terms, a "conservative"). ...
... Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Jacques Chirac and Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. ...
Both in their mid-50s with extensive experience in government, they share the distinction of having fallen out with former President Jacques Chirac and of ...
... Mitterrand and his successor Jacques Chirac and exposed corruption at the state-controlled oil company Elf. But the government says the position, ...
... where it has been accused of violations, and slammed his predecessor Jacques Chirac's cordial ties with Russia's then-President Vladimir Putin.
Putin has strong ties with Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and was close to the German Chancellor Gerhardt Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac ...
... Mitterrand and his successor Jacques Chirac and exposed corruption at the state-controlled oil company Elf. But the government says the position, ...
In 1995 French President Jacques Chirac apologized for the persecution of French Jews and instituted an annual commemorative ceremony in the plaza. ...
Serving as ministers in the same Jacques Chirac government some years ago only sharpened their antagonism. Ostensibly belonging to the same conservative ...
Expect appearances from Jacques Chirac, a popular figure at the event spending hours sampling produce and mixing with stallholders, and Nicolas Sarkozy ...
2003 - French President Jacques Chirac visits Algeria in an effort to improve relations between the two countries. It is the first official state visit by a ...
The hijab issue remained an irritant, and in the spring of 2003, then-President Jacques Chirac convened a committee of experts, the Stasi Commission (named ...
Photo: IC By Du Guodong Former French President Jacques Chirac once commented on Sino-French relations when meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao as ...
... then chief of Vivendi Universal, fired the head of the film production company Canal Plus in 2002, he was denounced by President Jacques Chirac, ...
In 1995 grumbling about an overvalued franc helped Jacques Chirac win the presidential election in France. He promptly pushed for all EU countries to face ...


 


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