Word: montebourg
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...hypocrisy: clarifying and normalizing governmental pay scales by lifting them, while harmonizing public and private sector pension plans by scaling those downward. "There's a feeling the political class is helping itself while the French people are left on the sidewalk to fend for themselves," lamented Socialist legislator Arnaud Montebourg...
...course, such comments could be simple opposition politics seeking to exploit an awkward moment for the government. Whether Montebourg's analysis actually finds resonance in public opinion should become clear when polls on the question are published later next week. And then there will be the next important demonstration of French society's enthusiasm (or lack thereof) for Sarkozy's reform agenda: the success of the nationwide strikes on Nov. 20 and the level of public support for them...
...seeking to broaden her success so far by keeping the spotlight on values rather than policies. Her main theme: bottom-up democracy. "S?gol?ne wants to get the citizens pulling along in solving the enormous problems we have," says one of her key spokesmen, National Assembly deputy Arnaud Montebourg. "We need a democratic revolution." Easy enough to say. But the French love irony enough, perhaps, to make a Royal the one to end the regal top-down traditions of the French presidency that Charles de Gaulle embodied and his successors emulated...
...alleged rpr slush funds, has run into a procedural brick wall. In January 1999, the Constitutional Council ruled that an acting President cannot be tried by a criminal court. "Chirac is the only candidate who needs to be elected to escape his legal destiny," said Socialist Deputy Arnaud Montebourg. "If he's not elected, he will immediately be served a summons by three investigating magistrates...
...when the last war came I went over to France as a machine gunner with that same 4th Division which is now fighting at Montebourg. We did not talk about slogans then and our men probably don't talk about them now. We thought we knew what we were fighting for, although it was hard to hold onto beliefs when boys we loved were killed before our eyes...