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...social consequences and their own reelection prospects. "We have to make strategic choices in the context of a strong questioning of our institutions and traditional systems of representation," says Sophie Boissard, a senior French civil servant who is establishing a policy-strategy unit for Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin. Along with November's social unrest, she points to falling voter participation and declining labor-union membership as evidence of growing public cynicism. In Britain, the government is trying to stop the rot with a campaign against antisocial behavior, especially among young people. Launching his "respect" initiative, Prime Minister Blair personally...
...FRANCO-GERMAN VAPORS The death of the European constitution has forced the Continent's two biggest economies to look inward. The government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, installed in June, has reaffirmed a fervid commitment to the French social model and pleaded for "economic patriotism" to protect French firms and jobs from foreign competition - even from within the E.U. The government seems keen to avoid European affairs, so much so that former French Foreign Minister and European Commissioner Michel Barnier says Brussels is "worried whether France will play its part in getting Europe going again." The questions of discrimination...
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin summed up the political salience of the French Arab riots for his country in one simple line: “The republic is at a moment of truth.” In many ways, he may have as well been speaking about the American Republic. What the riots in France teach us is that not only French prosperity, but also the future of American prosperity rests on the crucial task of ensuring that our economy grows to lift even the most disadvantaged to fulfill their potential...
...elections. This doesn't mean that Chirac is completely marginalized, of course; he still has great autonomy in foreign and military affairs. But as he contemplates the final 17 months of his term, perhaps the most he can hope to accomplish is to get his Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, into position to succeed him as President. That would bar the door to Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, who was once close to Chirac but is now the most popular man of the right and the President's toughest antagonist. So Chirac's potential to be a nuisance remains imposing...
...France to avert a repeat of the violence that wracked the suburbs over the past three weeks. "We need fluidity here," Borloo says. "More banlieues flowing into the towns, and more from the towns gushing out to the banlieues." Though Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin were the most visible politicians during the crisis, Borloo may be the only man with a real plan for fixing the banlieues. Last year, he launched a project - now budgeted at $35 billion over five years - to demolish and rebuild or renovate an initial 240 of France's most troubled...