Word: frans
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...political divides, Blair's biggest handicap in seeking the E.U. presidency is the one that inspired him to relinquish power in the U.K. last year: his significant unpopularity for his resolute partnership with the U.S. in its launch and persecution of war in Iraq. And that, Socialist Party leader François Hollande stated, is why Blair is unfit for the E.U.'s top job. Europe's presidency "will be about European policy, and about European independence from the United States," Hollande said. "I don't think Tony Blair corresponds to that profile...
...quarterly evaluations on how well cabinet members fulfill policy objectives laid out when they assumed office. Reviewing those indicators, Wauquiez explained, will "allow [us] to judge progress made in every area of government activity, [and] evaluate what moves and what doesn't." With those scorecards in hand, French premier François Fillon will meet with his 27 ministers and secretaries of state four times a year to discuss their performance...
...Uncultivated America!" I wanted to cry out. But no. The United States has many researchers, scholars, thinkers and artists of the highest level. Only they don't write in TIME. Maurice Druon, MEMBER OF THE ACADÉMIE FRANÇAISE, IN LE FIGARO...
...Joffrin isn't the only pundit who has lamented Sarkozy's star-struck flashiness in an office formerly characterized by the monumental solemnity of Charles de Gaulle, the intellectual loftiness exhibited by Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand, and the less formal yet dignified detachment of Jacques Chirac. The French media has wryly covered Sarkozy's open affection for celebrities like iconic rock star Johnny Hallyday, popular comic actor Christian Clavier, and the subtly named Doc Gyneco - a rapper whose dwindling popularity and fan base further shrunk when he announced his support for Sarkozy...
...Such attitudes explain the other issue some have with Sarkozy unabashedly admiring the same stars, musicians and even reality TV programs everyone else in France does: the disdain that the average French person frequently expresses for the average French person. Indeed, the very term "français moyen" literally means "average French person", but is usually used to refer to the kind of vulgar, uncultured and intellectually lazy person that "white trash" and "chav" designates in the U.S. and U.K. And that's an image that Sarkozy detractors predict will return to haunt him in the public mind over time...