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...Mixing national identity with immigration is an error," says conservative legislator and former Interior Minister François Baroin, who is one of several politicians on the right calling for the debates to be ended. "It's opening Pandora's box." Former conservative premiers Alain Juppé and Jean-Pierre Raffarin have similarly questioned the "utility" and "intellectual rigor" of the debates. And Sarkozy's own commissioner for ethnic diversity, Yazid Sebag, admitted to being "not very comfortable" with the initiative...
...Huge protests confronted the government's attempt to overhaul pensions in the mid-1990s, and they broke out again when it tried to shake up the Finance Ministry in 2000. In both cases, the government also backed off, with serious consequences. The 1996 climbdown by then Prime Minister Alain Juppé helped bring a socialist government to power the following year; in the 2000 debacle it was Finance Minister Christian Sautter who lost his job. But here's the twist: years later, both sets of reforms have happened anyway. The national pension system was revamped three years ago. The Finance...
...find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; one poll last week put his government's disapproval rating at 77%. Chirac's reforms have so far failed to jump-start France's economy, and he faces more bad headlines over the conviction of his close ally, former Prime Minister Alain Juppé, on corruption charges. Schröder's painful labor reforms have torpedoed his popularity, which has dropped from a 57% approval in June 2002 to 34% today, according to a poll for Die Welt. His Social Democrats face almost certain defeat in a string of local elections later this...
...almost 30 years of public life, Alain Juppé earned a reputation as one of France's most imperious and cerebral politicians - and as Jacques Chirac's loyal confidant and anointed successor as President of the Republic. After he tried to force through a raft of unpopular reforms as Prime Minister, Juppé's disdain for public opinion contributed to his humiliating ouster in 1997. So it came as something of a shock to see a pale, haggard Juppé claiming to be a victim on national television last week. "I didn't deserve this. I think...
...agency CSA. "The French don't want Juppé politically dead so much as they want to know the justice systems are keeping politicians honest - and focused exclusively on the work they were elected to do. This case is evidence that that's happening." But French voters aren't letting their guards down just yet. Political reaction to the Juppé verdict ranged from attacks on Chirac and surprising sympathy from some opposition Socialists to assaults on the court's legitimacy from the right. Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin reacted with "surprise" to a verdict he qualified as "provisional" - even...