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Middle East. As a much stronger supporter of Israel and the Camp David process than Giscard, Mitterrand will almost certainly back off from the overtly mercantile pro-Arab policy of his predecessor. In a rare moment of agreement, both Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and opposition Labor Party Leader Shimon Peres hailed Mitterrand last week as "a true friend of Israel...
Third World. Mitterrand is anxious to increase aid and trade with developing countries, and seems likely to strengthen French support for national liberation movements. He is strongly opposed to dealing with any kind of junta or authoritarian regime, no matter how pro-Western, and has sharply criticized U.S. involvement in El Salvador...
NATO. While Mitterrand talked as an Atlanticist during the campaign, he is unlikely to return France to NATO's integrated military command. He is committed to maintaining the independent French nuclear deterrent and will probably not reduce defense spending drastically...
...Europe. Mitterrand's election has injected a note of uncertainty into the European Community, whose officials now expect action on such prickly questions as agricultural subsidies, fisheries and steel to be delayed as the French concentrate on their domestic situation. Perhaps the election's most significant effect on the EC will be a weakening of the predominant Paris-Bonn axis, which depended on the close personal relationship of Giscard and West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The Chancellor was said to be shattered by Giscard's fall. He sent a formal congratulatory telegram to fellow socialist Mitterrand, whom...
Franco-U.S. Relations. The Reagan Administration, which had been building a closer relationship with Giscard over the past few months, was caught flat-footed by Mitterrand's election. Indeed, the Paris embassy had confidently predicted a Giscard victory (but not the CIA, whose analysts correctly picked Mitterrand). Briefing reporters the day after the election, an Administration official gamely stressed the "enduring quality" of Franco-American relations, but admitted to concern over the possible inclusion of Communists in the Mitterrand government...