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...budget, which would reduce income taxes and employer-paid benefits but raise minimum wages and maintain the state's status as France's largest employer, providing one of every four jobs. "Raffarin previously flirted with reform, but that's changing with this budget," says political analyst Alain Duhamel. "On areas like decentralization, tax reduction and even modifying the 35-hour week, he is proving reformist. On the issues more likely to provoke explosion?reducing civil servants and public services, for starters?he's looking as unenthusiastic as his predecessors...
...Party, selling voters - and leftist allies - on such market-minded reforms as increased privatization, tax reduction and remunerative innovations like stock options. Though a return to government is far off, Strauss-Kahn "may even have a larger impact as a defining force within his party," says political commentator Alain Duhamel. "Strauss-Kahn was popular as minister, but his real talent has always been making the left's policies more intelligent and realistic...
...Shawn H. Duhamel, a legislative liaison for the Retired State, County and Municipal Employees Association of Massachusetts, said the COLAs would benefit about 1,700 retired public employees, many of whom do not qualify for social security and who must live on an average pension of $11,000 per year...
...reflects this tolerance. There seems general relief that some of the more sinister rumors about the young Mitterrand have been debunked. "He is not anti-Semitic," the author has been telling interviewers. "I never found a single word, a single line that allowed me to think otherwise." Says Alain Duhamel, a political analyst and journalist, of the new book: "It shows Mitterrand was a nationalist, pro- Petain, but not a collaborator. I think you can also see, in his cooperation with the author, Mitterrand's desire to put his biographical house in order." In looking back, the old warrior shows...
...failed to secure a partisan boost. Even though Barre, an economics professor, offered a more trenchant critique of Mitterrand's economic and defense policies than Chirac, all too often he did so in a style better suited to university lecture halls than to political rallies. Said Political Scientist Olivier Duhamel of the University of Paris- Nanterre: "He has spoken Gaullist words but failed to achieve a Gaullist style...