Word: raffarin
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...read Humbert's book, published the day before he died. "It confirmed the suffering that I knew about," he says. He has received thousands of letters, all supportive, he says. Public pressure to implement some kind of reform in Humbert's name is strong, but Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin opposes creating a new law. Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister of Health and founder of Doctors Without Borders, has even suggested erecting a statue in honor of Marie Humbert. Perhaps the plaque could quote Vincent: "Do not judge her; what she will have done for me is probably the most...
French prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin all but declared war on the Parisian élite in an October interview with TIME, chastising French intellectuals for "not being open-minded enough about the world." It's a problem previous governments have grappled with, but last week Raffarin's government launched a new assault on the ruling class's high temple: the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the fiercely competitive, 58-year-old school that breeds France's best and brightest. As of 2005, the school will close its Paris campus for everything but continuing education and concentrate its activities at its Strasbourg...
...Berlusconi in 2001. In Britain, embattled Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith has been gaining scant ground on Prime Minister Tony Blair - even though Blair's popularity has plummeted since the war in Iraq. In France, the Socialists have been confused and silent, even as Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin weathered a summer of union discontent over pension and unemployment reforms. Only in Germany is the opposition enjoying any success, but even there the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU), are seen as the lesser of evils. Why can't opposition parties...
...June. And leading members of his own party are slamming his economic and social policies for being everything from too liberal to insufficiently ambitious. But since this is France, which has so often proved itself impervious to reform, fierce opposition like that means Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin must be doing something right. He certainly thinks so. "What we've done is enormous! Enormous!" Raffarin exclaimed in an interview with Time at his office in the Hôtel Matignon in Paris' seventh arrondissement. But, he added, "We have to be attentive to the nervous nature of French society...
...right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen into a runoff with Chirac - amounted to "a national cry of distress." The massive mandate for Chirac in the second round, bolstered by parliamentary elections in June 2002 that gave conservatives a 68% majority in the National Assembly, handed Raffarin "an extraordinary possibility to make enormous changes," Baverez argues. But he thinks that opportunity has been wasted out of political cowardice. This government, he writes, is "betraying the reforming mandate given by the voters in April 2002." Malek Boutih, an outspoken Socialist Party official, says the government's mandate wasn...