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...long vintage gives the case its special piquancy, because the defendants were all cogs in the old Paris political machine of Jacques Chirac, who served 18 years as mayor of Paris before being elected President of France in 1995. And the accused are only the latest in a string of alleged bagmen, vote-riggers and ward-heelers charged with wrongdoing during Chirac's city hall tenure - two of Chirac's closest aides are among those already convicted in connection with kickback and party financing charges. As President, Chirac enjoys immunity from prosecution, but new elections...
...Allegations of political cynicism have been known to stir as much admiration as horror in France, but French tolerance for such behavior may be reaching its limit. This summer, President Chirac issued a presidential pardon to Guy Drut, a former Olympic hurdler who had been convicted for taking a fictitious job in Mayor Chirac's municipal administration. But when the government then claimed that thus pardoned, Drut should be able to assume a spot on the ethics committee of the International Olympic Committee, public reaction was swift and severe, and the government backed...
...gender as in so much else, French politicians talk a better game than they play. To be sure, in May 1991 President François Mitterrand appointed France's first and only female Prime Minister, Edith Cresson - but she was tossed aside in less than a year. Jacques Chirac's party was led for three years by Michèle Alliot-Marie, now the Defense Minister, who is as formidable a politician as Royal and would be a potential presidential candidate herself if Sarkozy didn't have his party's nomination sewn up. But on the whole, the French political...
...where the tax is levied when assets are handed down a generation, husbands and wives in France are subject to death duties on what they inherit from their spouses. That has long rankled some French lawmakers and lobbyists. In October 2003, a group of French Deputies from President Jacques Chirac's center-right party proposed a parliamentary resolution to abolish inheritance tax altogether. It went nowhere. Another initiative last year to exclude principal residences from the tax suffered the same fate. But last month, news leaked out that the Finance Ministry is considering plans to suppress inheritance tax between spouses...
...international community, involve the Arab world, and that Europe had to take the principal leadership role. We had strong support from the U.S., which was a precondition for succeeding. And with the support of other countries, like Germany and the U.K., it was difficult for [French President Jacques] Chirac to maintain his position [on troop numbers...