Chirac's dirty thirty million
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Filed under: General - site admin @ 9:29 am From the Scotsman . The lede: Long-standing rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to ... via Austin Bay Blog
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Business & money: Â· Scant detail 'designed to antagonise', says analystÂ· Debt suspected to have soared to Â£300m
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French President Jacques Chirac: on his way out figures among the top &#x2019;euro-saures&#x2019; who, in accordance with the laws of evolution, must give way to a new kind of leader.Comment
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Â· Ex-president questioned as immunity comes to endÂ· Party officials said to have been on Paris city payroll
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Well, it seems that now folks are going to have to give the French at least a few make-up points. While the British company Chiron turned out contaminated flu vaccine, the French company Aventis Pasteur provided
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France's involvement in Ivory Coast receives sceptical scrutiny in several papers.
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European Central Bank chief Jean-Claude Trichet has attacked France for being Europe's "number one spender". Mr Trichet warned that in comparison to its GDP, the country was well on the way to spending much more than its European neighbours during 2007. The warning came as Prime Minister Francois Fillon warned that France's finances were in a "critical" state. French finances have caused friction with Europe, with France under pressure to cut its budget deficit.
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THE US-led war that ousted Saddam Hussein opened a Pandora&#39;s box and the situation in Iraq was not getting any better, French President Jacques Chirac said today.
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A majority of French people are dissatisfied with the work of President Jacques Chirac, according to a new opinion poll that showed his popularity has dropped by six percentage points in a month.
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Wolfgang Schaupensteiner, the city's chief public prosecutor, told a news conference that he had uncovered evidence of bribery associated with 30 properties worth 3bn- 4bn, mainly office buildings and shopping ...
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Every two decades, it seems, the Middle East embroils Jacques Chirac in a particularly agonizing way. In the mid-1980s, he was prime minister as France wrestled with the kidnapping in Lebanon of several French
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France is approaching a crossroads on the painful and devious road to economic and social reforms.
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French President Jacques Chirac called for a tax to fund the global fight against AIDS on Wednesday, as new figures showed a modest rise in the number of patients receiving life-saving drugs in poor nations.
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Sometimes it&#39;s hard not to think that the national capital&#39;s worst problem is corruption. This is one of those times. After months of frying smaller fish, the inquiry into the Quebec sponsorship scandal is
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French President Jacques Chirac's announcement that he will leave frontline politics brought no end to the controversy over his record and legacy on Monday.Comment
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When the leading left-wing tabloid sells a sizable stake to a Rothschild heir, you know things are getting desperate for France&#39;s newspaper industry.
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A historic record of more than 130,000 amendments have been tabled by France's left-wing opposition ahead of a debate in the National Assembly on Thursday on the hotly contested privatisation of the gas utility GDF, parliamentary officials have said.