Word: mouvement
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When Poland was admitted to the European Union, politicians across Europe viewed the prospect of Poles moving into their countries with xenophobic disdain. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three...
Listen to the rhetoric of politicians across Europe and you won't hear the relationship between Poles and their host countries described in such friendly terms. In 2005, Philippe de Villiers, leader of France's Euro-skeptic Mouvement pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members back in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from local workers led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to keep their labor markets closed...
...only pacifist organization of any consequence in France is the Mouvement de la Paix, headed by Michel Langignon, 68, an affable grandfather who has been a member of the Communist Party since 1942. The group's only significant achievement is the modest march it organized on Oct. 25 in Paris. On the ground floor of Langignon's offices in a working-class section of Paris is a collection of posters that includes onetime Member Pablo Picasso's sketch of the dove that became the familiar peace emblem. "Picasso said he didn't have enough time to think up a symbol...
...risks he takes, Chirac's operations are meticulously planned and executed. Before picking a new name for his party, he consulted marketing experts and conducted polls on key words. It was discovered that rassemblement was better received than mouvement. République and française (which was later dropped from the name because Chirac thought it suggested a challenge to the government) struck responsive chords, though democratic did not. Indeed, a computer analysis revealed that De Gaulle had used the word only nine times in all his public speeches...
Long before there was a Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes in France, Journalist Franchise Giroud, editor of the left-leaning weekly, L 'Express, had been championing-as well as living -the life-style of an emancipated woman. A divorcee, Giroud, 57, has repeatedly spoken out for women's rights...