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...considered a new merger law that would block the deal. In Paris, Finance Minister Thierry Breton lambasted Mittal's decision to make an unsolicited bid, accusing him of having "a grammar problem," while President Jacques Chirac searched for ways to stop the takeover. One former French Prime Minister, Michel Rocard, wrote an angry screed entitled "Europe Should Say No," that advocated the introduction of a blanket ban on acquisitions by non-Europeans. At Arcelor itself, chief executive Guy Dollé slammed Mittal Steel as "a company of Indians" that was offering "monkey money" for his firm, which he described...
...Mitterrand to share power with a hostile conservative majority. From that point on, the party, which has lost nearly half its members since 1981, has been in free fall. The low point was a dismal 14% showing in last June's European parliamentary elections, which prompted party leader Michel Rocard's resignation and thereby eliminated the most obvious Socialist presidential candidate...
...chieftains turned last fall to outgoing European Commission president Jacques Delors, who was then leading in the opinion polls. But Delors stunned everyone by announcing that he would not run, largely for personal reasons. ``Everyone was ready for Delors,'' says Henri Weber, a party official. ``When he said no, Rocard could have stepped forward again, but he just didn't want to do it. All the undisputed candidates disappeared...
...France the Euro-polls were supposed to sort things out for next year's race for a successor Socialist President Francois Mitterrand. On the left, a good showing from the Socialists led by former Prime Minister Michel Rocard, 63, would have sealed his claim as the "natural candidate." But they were humiliated with only 14.5% of the vote, their worst showing in 25 years, throwing the race for the party's nomination wide open. Possible wild cards include former Culture Minister Jack Lang and former Health Minister Bernard Kouchner...
...SPITE OF OUR MISTAKES, AND THERE WERE some, I truly don't think we deserved this," said former Prime Minister Michel Rocard as the returns poured in during the first round of France's parliamentary elections. Voters thought otherwise. Rocked by scandals and blamed for France's 10.5% unemployment rate, the ruling Socialists plunged from 34.7% of the vote in 1988 to 17.6%. The conservative alliance between former Prime Minister Jacques Chirac's Rally for the Republic (R.P.R.) and ex-President Valery Giscard d'Estaing's Union for French Democracy took 39.5%, which France's voting system was expected...