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...they are blocked by a president citing a rarely-used executive privilege. The latter two options would mark political capitulation, for both de Villepin and his backer President Jacques Chirac, and "seriously undermine his leadership authority with the public only one year before the presidential election," says Stèphane Rozés, deputy director of the CSA polling agency...
...Landes region of southwestern France, where foie gras is the highest expression of both culinary excellence and regional identity. The Laffitte family has been in the poultry trade for the better part of a century, and neither chicken farmer Michel, 50, nor his duck-raising nephew Stéphane, 32, is about to accept that the avian-flu virus could augur the end of a tradition. But like poultry farmers everywhere in France, the Laffittes feel as if they are fighting two battles these days. And both their opponents are unpredictable. One fight, of course, is against the highly pathogenic...
...Sarkozy, "the threat comes from Chirac's people, not the National Front." But it's with Chirac's people that Sarkozy governs. "He knows that his brand of economic liberalism isn't popular in France, so he's compensating with a dose of moral conservativism," says Stéphane Rozès, director of the French polling firm CSA Opinion. "But he can't go much further in that direction without having to choose between the government and his own ambitions...
...bloc for the first time, 51% to 49%, in a poll asking French respondents how they will vote in the May 29 referendum on the proposed E.U. constitution. The yes tally has decreased dramatically, from a high of 69% in December and 63% late last month. Stéphane Rozès, deputy director general of CSA polling agency, which conducted the survey, says growing resentment over government reform, rising unemployment, falling spending power, and the E.U.'s effort to liberalize the service sector could further mobilize the disaffected. "There's growing desire to punish leaders, and blame Paris...
...this Saturday when Green Party leader Noël Mamère, in his capacity as mayor of the Bordeaux suburb of Bègles, will kick off the June season with France's first gay wedding by marrying Bertrand Charpentier, 31, a nurse's aide, and Stéphane Chapin, 33, a warehouse worker...