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...accords and collegial manner won Lenoir high marks from foreign colleagues, and many in Brussels cheered her selection by Raffarin. Lenoir's European bona fides are accompanied by experience within France's power élite, whose male domination she challenged early on. In 1986, Mitterrand named her to the Conseil d'Etat - a governmental policy advisory panel - and in 1988 she was tapped as chief of staff of the then leftist government's Justice Ministry. In 1992 she became the first woman ever appointed to the Conseil Constitutionel - France's equivalent to a supreme court - where she acted as that...
...Corsican bill still has a long way to go to become law. The draft must pass the upper house of Parliament before facing the Conseil Constitutionnel - the guardian of France's Jacobin constitution. Corsican nationalists may also prove uncooperative if, as leader Jean-Guy Talamoni warns, the bill "isn't a modest start to what must be a much deeper, wider reform...
...Thus when the trial ends on Feb. 13, Roland Dumas will not be judged for an affaire d??tat but for far more banal matters of the heart and the pocketbook. Whether or not he is found guilty, his career is finished?he was forced to resign from the Conseil Constitutionnel in 1999?and his reputation lies in ruins. For all his efforts to present himself as a political martyr, persecuted by enemies jealous of his ?brilliance,? Dumas could well face the heartbreak of dishonor in his final years...
...negotiating independence; today 56% of a polling sample favor more sovereignty for Quebec. That sentiment has gained strength from the rise of a new French-speaking business class that in the past decade has largely replaced Quebec's old English-speaking elite. Says Ghislain Dufour, head of the Conseil du Patronat, the provincial chamber of commerce: "We're much more confident than we were ten years...
...concerted efforts of conservatives to get Mitterrand to change his mind failed. Throughout the summer, businessmen had lobbied Premier Pierre Mauroy, Finance Minister Jacques Delors and Industry Minister Pierre Dreyfus, all moderates who were thought to consider the nationalization plan excessive. The Conseil d'Etat, a 199-man body that advises the government on the constitutionality of legislation, warned that it might be discriminatory to take over French companies while leaving foreign ones in private hands. But Mitterrand remained loyal to a central plank in the Common Program he signed with the Communists in 1972. Declared the President last...