Word: gaullist
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...this make France leader of the global opposition. It would also restore France to what it sees as its rightful place as leader of Europe. Which is why the great subplot in the Iraq drama is the fate of Tony Blair. Blair represents precisely the alternative vision - Churchillian vs. Gaullist - of accepting and working with American leadership in the world. Chirac's U.N. stand has caused Blair huge political difficulties at home, where much of his own Labour Party opposes him on Iraq. If Blair can be politically destroyed, France will have demonstrated to the world the price of going...
...collaborationist Vichy regime, Papon escaped punishment after the war and even resumed his position as a powerful member of France's political and business élite. In the 1960s, he worked as Paris police chief for President Charles de Gaulle, and was later elected to parliament as a Gaullist candidate. He was budget minister from 1978 to 1981, when wartime deportation and intelligence documents on Jews bearing his signature became public. Indicted for crimes against humanity in 1983, Papon avoided judgment until 1998 - but even then was convicted for illegal arrests and detention in connection with the Holocaust, rather than...
...rightist government completed its fourth full month in office last week, it continues to shy away from many of the reforms it once promised to impose. Analysts have stopped counting all the contradictions, policy pirouettes and public climb-downs that have punctuated its brief reign. Raffarin and his neo-Gaullist boss?President Jacques Chirac?benefit from near-complete conservative domination of the French political system, but you wouldn't know it from their policies. That has led traditional allies like Seillière and other business leaders to lament the lost opportunity?a chance to slash away at a social...
...preferring to put its faith in one-issue, corporatist movements like farmers and doctors. Under the Fifth Republic introduced by Charles de Gaulle in 1958, the President is meant to be both the guardian of the nation and its executive leader. But the current contest between the neo-Gaullist Jacques Chirac and the Socialist Lionel Jospin only emphasizes the gulf between the real challenges facing France and the public skepticism that any politician can solve them. The economic expansion that enabled the country to stand tall at the start of the century has slowed. Unemployment is rising. So is fear...
...take the best of other countries and add a bit of our own." But can the French system be adapted to other football environments? The centralized approach to football, after all, is a variation on France's large, dirigiste state structure that liberals generally decry as reminiscent of Gaullist, if not Soviet, organization. Deschamps also notes France's system involves a collective effort between the FFF and French pro clubs that "can't afford to buy the best players the way foreign clubs do, so the only way they can survive economically is to produce them." Such cooperation is hard...