Chirac leaves a mixed legacy in France
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Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as president of France, leaves a legacy as mixed and ambiguous as the man himself.
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement on Sunday, as the current favourite to replace him, Nicolas Sarkozy, continues to make waves on the issue of immigration.
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to announce his retirement from frontline politics on Sunday after a 45-year career that was strong on symbolic gestures but short on concrete reforms.
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By looking after Yasser Arafat in his last days and sending his body home with full honours, France reinforced its image as a major Palestinian ally and attempted to position itself as a key player should the ...
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Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as France's president, announced Sunday he will not seek a third term in elections this spring &#151; a widely expected move given his low popularity, his age and a conservative rival who has siphoned off his political base.
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IN HIM France gave the world one of the major figures of the intellectual life of our times, announced Jacques Chirac, the French president, on the day after Jacques Derrida's death.
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As Latin American military autocrats go, Augusto Pinochetâs legacy will be more mixed than most.
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France&#39;s president left a Brussels meeting early in what has been widely seen as a refusal to meet Iraq&#39;s prime minister. Jacques Chirac left a European Union summit Thursday
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French-American relations are set to shift as France chooses a successor to President Jacques Chirac, who has defined himself on the world stage as an opponent of American dominance.
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Their new president wants to get the  French to work harder to compete in global markets, but some  traditions are likely to endure -- including long holidays, a  kiss for colleagues in the morning, and a decent lunch.
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When French President Jacques Chirac visits Britain Thursday and Friday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the entente cordiale between the two countries, he will be treated
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French President Jacques Chirac started a state visit to China Saturday. President Chirac is an old friend of China. On his visit to China seven years ago he established the all-round strategic partnership
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Creating a defence and aerospace industrial champion centered on France may be impossible for Nicolas Sarkozy to engineer during his last days as finance minister, as political considerations cloud the ...
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President Jacques Chirac passed his 72nd birthday yesterday locked in a struggle to maintain his relevance in the face of an intraparty challenge and continuing friction with the world's only superpower.
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French-American relations are set to shift as France chooses a successor to President Jacques Chirac, who has defined himself on the world stage as an opponent of American dominance.Comment
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To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Deng Xiaoping, French President Jacques Chirac, in an exclusive interview by PD correspondent Zhang Zhuji stationed in France on August 19, talked about his contacts with Deng Xiaoping, highly
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There will be a shift of power on the French right this weekend which could mark the beginning of the end of the Chirac era in French politics.