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...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 Jean-François Dehecq's unsolicited offer for Franco-German Aventis last week raised eyebrows. Except in government: Finance Minister Francis Mer openly endorses the takeover, while a source close to the deal says President Jacques Chirac, an old friend of Dehecq's, personally called Liliane Bettencourt, the biggest shareholder in L'Oréal - which in turn owns a big stake in Sanofi - to win her support for the bid. Neither...
...Cultural Capital, Lille hopes to attract travelers from farther afield, to the city and its cross-border hinterland: the 2004 program includes festivities in Dunkerque, Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer on the French coast, and in Courtrai, Mons and Tournai in Belgium. For more information go to www.lille2004.com
...wish, and France exhaled a sad sigh of relief. Now the nation is again holding its breath. Humbert's mother awaits indictment for attempted poisoning, punishable by up to five years in prison; and his doctor, for premeditated poisoning, which can mean life in prison. As Boulogne-sur-Mer prosecutor Gérald Lesigne began detailing the allegations this month, France debated the fine line between letting someone die and killing him. This time, the man in the middle is Humbert's doctor, Frédéric Chaussoy. A majority of French people support legalizing euthanasia in some cases...
Chaussoy had not known Humbert well. But as head of the intensive-care unit at his hospital in Berck-sur-Mer, he was in charge after Humbert slipped back into the coma. The morning after Marie Humbert's failed attempt, Chaussoy and his team discussed the case. "I had only one fear - that Vincent would find himself in his former condition," Chaussoy would later say. And so, with the backing of Humbert's other doctors and nurses, he shut off the artificial respirator the next day. Humbert gasped, as sometimes happens when respirators are removed, Chaussoy says. So the doctor...
...FRANCIS MER, French Finance Minister, on U.S. justice; his government disagrees with U.S. prosecutors over France's role in the failure of insurer Executive Life