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...Also named by Le Figero: Thierry Breton, who prior to last June's legislative elections served as Economy Minister for the last conservative government. Breton is described in the AMF finding as having received a memo from an unidentified source in December 2005, warning EADS would be entering "a zone of turbulence." The memo to Breton also purportedly urged the French government to lower its 15% stake in the group before flying got rough for EADS, which would allow the state to "profit from the current value of shares, which incorporates only the good news of the last financial year...
...Pundits and leftist politicians have responded by saying that even if Breton and other government officials did not act on information that rough times were ahead for EADS, they must have known months before the public did. And in that time, Airbus executives had sold millions in stock options - though all have maintained they did so legally, and after consulting company compliance officials. Among those was Noël Forgeard, who as co-president of EADS exercised around $14 million in stock options he and his children held in March 2006 - netting capital gains of over $3 million, just three...
Immigration may be the hot topic in France's presidential campaign, but who'd have thought it would spark such a fury in the quiet, pastoral Breton town of Montfort-sur-Meu? But unlike the tough, often vaguely xenophobic, immigration positions of some of the presidential candidates, the good people of Montfort are demanding the return and regularization of 23 illegal Malians arrested for deportation when they turned up for work last month...
...nothingness.CS: Yeah because there’s not too much of it. I mean we’re traveling cities all the time. It’s hard to see nothingness in life. I mean I spent some time in the fall and I used to live in cape Breton in a tiny little part of Canada, northern Nova Scotia. Lived there for a couple of winters and there’s a whole lot of nothingness there. (Pause)Landscape over structure. Rather than a building, we’re talking about the landscape. So there?...
...times, involved attacks of a distinctly ugly nature. In Luxembourg, where Arcelor is based, Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker called for "a reaction that is at least as hostile" as the bid, and parliament considered a new merger law that would block the deal. In Paris, Finance Minister Thierry Breton lambasted Mittal's decision to make an unsolicited bid, accusing him of having "a grammar problem," while President Jacques Chirac searched for ways to stop the takeover. One former French Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, wrote an angry screed entitled "Europe Should Say No," that advocated the introduction of a blanket...