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...Then there's the culprits. Intel blamed sagging European demand - this to go with news that the European Central Bank is intervening on behalf of the euro, a real sign of desperation in E.U.-land - and the bane of both continents, rising oil prices...
...Media had registered, such as icolympics.com and iseeolympics.com, for its coverage of these and future Games. "We want people to be able to go direct to our coverage of the Olympics," said Jill Playle, the firm's marketing director. The company used iceuro2000.com for its coverage of the Euro 2000 soccer competition without any problems. "We quite understand that the Olympic organizations have to protect their name, but it is the Games that will suffer if the organizers are overprotective...
Almost no French politician on the left or right will openly endorse such free-market policies. But in fact, the logic of liberalism is built into the euro, the European single market and the free-trade global economy that France has embraced. "France is indeed moving in a liberal direction, but you mustn't say it," observes Antoine Garapon, an expert on the French justice system. "What distinguishes France today is a republican hypocrisy...
...turnaround actually began just before Jospin's election, but the Prime Minister deserves credit for his efforts to keep it going. After dithering over adopting the euro, the new Socialist government signed the June 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, which ensured France's participation in the single European currency and tied its destiny to the 15-member European Union. Jospin then began a steady sell-off of state companies, a move that reassured the business community and international investors. Most important, and most controversial, were the 35-hour workweek and a program that offered state-subsidized jobs to 350,000 young people...
...morphing of the old Paris-centered France into a more complex, decentralized nation. A keen observer of this process is U.S. Ambassador to France Felix Rohatyn, who has set up five new American diplomatic posts in various cities in response to it. "I saw that the combination of the euro and the single European market, and the elimination of frontiers, was inevitably going to lead to a decentralization and increase the importance of regional centers and cities as they created their own alliances," says Rohatyn. "More and more businesses are migrating out of Paris, and this decentralization will only accelerate...