Word: mitterrands
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...unfortunate knack for miscommunication - even when he was right, as he arguably was when he called the euro-zone deficit limits "stupid." Perhaps his bigger problem was faltering support for the E.U. in the capitals of Europe. "It was a lot easier being Commission President when you had Mitterrand, Kohl and Andreotti pushing the Union from the capitals," sighs a top Prodi confidante. Delors disagrees; after all, he had to contend with the doyenne of Euro-skeptics, Margaret Thatcher. He thinks his achievements had more to do with his approach than with the historical context. "The Commission should...
...pyramid at the Louvre (1989). "Nothing is stopping them from making nice things," insists Fabrice Piault, head of an activist neighborhood organization in the 13th arrondissement, where office buildings are filling in the space around the four 79-m towers of the François Mitterrand Library (1995) - a prestige project for which height restrictions didn't apply. There's a certain degree of irony in the fact that the proposal to raise the roofs of Paris comes not from greedy developers, but from the first leftist mayor Paris has had since the commune of 1871. A Socialist...
...schedules for each cinema are tailored to its neighborhood, with individual managers selecting movies for reprises and special screenings. Showing a high concentration of French films, Karmitz's cinema chain continues to grow, the latest addition being a 14-screen multiplex with a store and restaurant near the grand Mitterrand Library. The aptly named MK2 Biblioth?que averages some 20,000 admissions per week. "If you offer people an interesting mix of films," says Karmitz, "they will respond...
...President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, personally summoned him to ask for "more balanced" treatment. Le Floch-Prigent and Sirven haven't named names, and Chirac himself has not been implicated in the case, but the sums are substantial. Le Floch-Prigent estimated Elf handed out about $5 million per year to the political...
...after deciding that President Val?ry Giscard d'Estaing wasn't taking enough notice of him. In 1981, after founding his own party, he ran a presidential campaign that split the right and allowed the left to win the presidency. He tried again in 1988 and was routed by Fran?ois Mitterrand, finally making it to the Elysée Palace in 1995, only to lose legislative elections, and control of the government, two years later. Chirac's determination to succeed in his last term is entwined with deep-rooted French nationalism. The big victory by his followers in parliamentary elections...