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...turn them back. When French appliance maker Moulinex-Brandt tried to eliminate 670 jobs at a factory in Lesquin in northern France last month, the regional director of labor found the company's restructuring plan inadequate and ordered the firm to restart negotiations with the union. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, who seems likely to join the presidential race, has been pushing "social modernization" legislation that would make it more difficult for companies to lay off workers. Not surprisingly, big business has heatedly opposed the proposal. "If firing becomes impossible, hiring will become more difficult," says Ernest-Antoine Seilli...
...tireless rockers and advocates for the Third World made a brief stop on tour to commend French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin on the debt relief France has offered poor countries and to ask France to "finish what we have started." The group is also pushing gun control in its show, with a film mocking Charlton Heston...
...talking. Instead, five outsiders briefed the President, among them Michael McFaul, a Democrat and a Russia expert and Rice colleague from Stanford; Tom Graham, a Republican think-tanker; and Felix Rohatyn, the New York investment banker who was Clinton's ambassador to France. The surprising cast included two Brits--Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, and the left-leaning Oxford scholar Timothy Garton Ash. For 2 1/2 hours Bush listened and asked questions. "He hasn't thought a lot about these issues before," says someone who was there, "so he's taking this very seriously...
...first glance, last week's 287-217 parliamentary vote granting the island of Corsica increased autonomy may look like another exercise in partisan politics. France's leftist majority dutifully supported the government of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, while the conservative opposition just as predictably snubbed it. In reality, however, the bill is causing division even within political parties and may set off significant changes in France's highly centralized governing structure...
...exhalations of relief across Europe, but the center-left parties and governments that currently dominate the E.U. remained on their guard. France's Socialist Foreign Minister Hubert Védrine warned that his government would be "attentive and, if necessary, vigilant" toward the new Italian administration, while Prime Minister Lionel Jospin pointedly refrained from making any declaration at all. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat, issued a notably cool statement, saying his government "took note" of the Italian results and "respected the decision" of the voters. Britain's center-left Prime Minister Tony Blair was a better...