Word: chirac
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...European federalism; the campaign proved that the British people do not want a common currency or a European superstate. With a united party to back him, Blair ("I am a British patriot, first and foremost") will prove to be a much tougher proposition to Chancellor Kohl and President Chirac than the volatile and spineless Major. I said to Blair not long ago, "It may be your historic role to take Britain away from the European federation and towards a mere free-trade relationship." He replied, "I believe you may well be right...
PARIS: Confronting his sagging popularity and a record 12.8 percent unemployment rate, French President Jaques Chirac dissolved parliament and called for national elections on May 25. The move is a risky gamble to push through budget cuts needed to allow the country to join the European Union's single currency. More cuts are needed in light of a new Finance Ministry report that placed the 1997 budget deficit at 3.8 percent, short of the three percent needed to qualify for the euro. In a televised plea, Chirac, called on voters to reject increased taxes and public spending as the solution...
What if President Clinton walked by Boris Yeltsin without saying "hi" or bumped into Jacques Chirac without a "pardonnez-moi?" Why, that's an international diplomatic gaffe of the highest proportions. If U.S. News & World Report factored etiquette into their rankings, fair Harvard might not even make third...
MOSCOW: Through a long succession of sick days, Boris Yeltsin has definitely retained his sense of timing. Kremlin officials happily announced today that not only was the Russian president back in the Kremlin, but that Yeltsin would indeed keep this weekend's meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Moscow. Yeltsin, who turns 66 on Saturday, returned to work in Moscow for the first time since Jan. 18, ostensibly to meet with Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and review government documents. But in what has become a symbolic gesture of declining value, the president's real purpose was to prove that...
Africa. When Christopher went to Africa in October to show U.S. interest there, a junior French Minister made the snide comment that the trip was a campaign ploy to win black votes for Clinton. The official was chastised by Chirac, but both sides swapped barbs about the other's imperious claims to "private domains...