Party funding row haunts Chirac
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The French are conflicted on what to do with ex-President Jacques Chirac over the all-party 'Paris lycees affair', says Hugh Schofield.
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PARIS - French President Jacques Chirac is expected to confirm on Sunday he will not seek reelection, bringing the curtain down on more than 40 years of frontline politics.He leaves behind a ...Comment
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French President Jacques Chirac is expected to confirm on Sunday he will not seek reelection, bringing the curtain down on more than 40 years of frontline politics.
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PARIS, July 19 -- A judge questioned former president Jacques Chirac for more than four hours Thursday in an investigation into a party financing scandal that dates to his time as mayor of Paris, his attorney said. It was the first time a former French president has undergone questioning under such...
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The relations of French officialdom have been uneasy of late. First there was the matter of the headscarf, which has been followed by a row over whether or not to ban broadcasts by the Al-Manar (The Beacon
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French railway and energy workers kept up  the pressure on President Jacques Chirac's government on  Wednesday with strikes over working conditions that severely  reduced train traffic and curbed electricity output.
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In a major broadside, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin rejected a senior government minister's idea of using state funds to build mosques and train Islamic religious leaders.
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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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Business & money: Jerome Kerviel speaks about the row over SociÃ©tÃ© GÃ©nÃ©rale's multibillion euro losses
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President Jacques Chirac was under pressure yesterday to bring forward France's referendum on the European constitution because of fears that the debate will be "polluted" by rising hostility towards Turkey's ...
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Talks on funding of political parties have broken down after 18 months of negotiations, it has emerged.
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French President Jacques Chirac is  expected to confirm on Sunday he will not seek reelection,  bringing the curtain down on more than 40 years of frontline  politics.
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French President Chirac's ruling party risks losing its outright majority in an indirect vote to the Senate.
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BRITAIN will infuriate its partners this year as it fights to keep its rebate on the EU budget, but the biggest trouble may come from France.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen may have a reputation for prejudice, but that doesn't deter his party's supporters among the disgruntled children of immigrants
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President Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s political opponents struggled on Tuesday to energize their campaign and prevent the French leader&#39;s rightwing party from winning a landslide victory in parliamentary elections.
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PARIS -- France's energetic and outspoken finance minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, took over the leadership of the country's ruling party yesterday, giving him a vehicle and platform to launch a presidential campaign in 2007 and setting up what is likely to be two years of intense political combat with the incumbent president, Jacques Chirac. Chirac, who turns 72 today, has hinted ...