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The Glory of France Can France keep its businesses French? The government's attempt to create a national champion by engineering a 346 billion merger between drug firms Sanofi-Synthélabo and Aventis could end up backfiring. Hostile takeovers are rare and frowned upon in France, so Sanofi CEO...
French President Jacques Chirac might not have had religion on his mind when he backed the ban. Perhaps he was thinking about the unity of France and how to integrate its North African Muslim community, estimated at five million. This is a community largely ghettoized and with a myriad of...
(2 of 2) The memory of so many bad buildings has made a lot of Parisians almost pathologically opposed to more. "The very idea of building in Paris is seen as wrong and condemnable," sighs Paris architect Bernard Reichen. After the Tour Montparnasse went up, mayor Jacques Chirac and his...
Secretary-General Kofi Annan - who favored direct elections until last week - told me the U.N. would be willing, if asked, to certify the American plan and supervise the caucuses, "if we are sure the process is inclusive and transparent," and then "only if our security considerations can be met." French...
Secretary-General Kofi Annan--who favored direct elections until last week--told me the U.N. would be willing, if asked, to certify the American plan and supervise the caucuses, "if we are sure the process is inclusive and transparent," and then "only if our security considerations can be met." French...