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...school and the University of Nancy before attaining the classical educational polish of the French political élite: a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris ("Sciences Po") and another from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ena), where her class included the current Prime Minister, Dominique de Villepin, and her partner, Hollande. They met there in 1978 and had their first child...
...demanding more in primary and secondary education, too. The French are ready to demand more of ourselves in general. There's a real problem at the foundation of our society. To catch up we need a President and Ministers and intellectuals who want to listen. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has complained about the déclinologues who revel in chronicling France's fall. Are you one? I'm very critical of the state of French universities. But in the end, I suggest that with major surgery we can improve things. So I don't consider myself...
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin has always espoused a "great man" approach to history and his job: his hero is Napoleon, and his watchword during a turbulent year in office has been voluntarisme, or willpower. "Villepin always wants to go it alone, with great enthusiasm and resolve," says Axel Poniatowski, a deputy of Villepin's own ruling conservative Union for a Popular Movement (ump), "but he runs right into walls." Poniatowski was among the majority of ump deputies who refused to back Villepin's plan last week to facilitate the merger of Franco-Belgian utility Suez with...
...real victory, but at best a partial one, which has brought us back to the normal state of affairs." Judging by recent French history, the students' victory is likely to be partial for other reasons, too. The same combustible sequence of events that killed Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin's contested youth job bill has played out in identical fashion twice before in the past decade. Huge protests confronted the government's attempt to overhaul pensions in the mid-1990s, and they broke out again when it tried to shake up the Finance Ministry in 2000. In both cases...
...seekers faster. Last summer he even piloted a work contract, designed to encourage small companies to take on staff by allowing them to fire new workers within two years without risking legal reprisals or severance costs. That's remarkably similar to the law Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin championed to stimulate youth employment by making young workers easier to dismiss - and look how that ended up. But as Villepin's proposal was shelved earlier this month, an independent agency monitoring the Borloo-sponsored measure reported it had generated over 400,000 new jobs since September. Great results - but they were...