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...paperwork for a public offering, and lobbied the government hard to be next in line. Her insistence ruffled some feathers, especially in the Finance Ministry, according to people familiar with the behind-the-scenes maneuvering. And late last month, she officially lost her battle when Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Finance Minister Thierry Breton announced that Electricité de France (edf), the huge state electricity supplier, would be next. Lauvergeon will no doubt get over her disappointment soon, since Areva emerges as a big winner even if its privatization is pushed back. That's because, as the price...
...problem by Socialist governments. For many, though, he was throwing salt into an open wound. The families of the electrocuted youths refused Sarkozy's offer to meet with them, and his hard-nosed approach drew criticism even from within his government. On Tuesday, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, a probable rival to Sarkozy in the race to represent France's conservatives in the 2007 presidential election, arranged a meeting with the families, and calls for calm were resonating from all sides of the political spectrum. On Wednesday night the fires were burning again in the banlieues, consuming three dozen cars...
...undermining the level of competitiveness," said Augusto Lopez-Claros, the Forum's chief economist, who notes that Scandinavian countries put tax receipts efficiently back into the economy by investing in education and infrastructure. How much can other European countries learn from the North? French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, for one, acknowledges Nordic influence on some of his social policies. Germany's Finance Minister, Hans Eichel, even invited along his Swedish counterpart, Per Nuder, during last month's election campaign. But Denmark's former Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen warned that simply borrowing Nordic policies without adapting them to national...
...take up that comforting analysis. Defense minister MicheŽle Alliot-Marie said in a radio interview, "I think the Germans have responded in a way that certainly does not allow the application of a totally liberal model." In other words, back off, Sarkozy, the more moderate tack of the Villepin government is not only what the French people want, but what the Germans apparently favor as well. That means marshalling the power of the state to solve problems like entrenched unemployment rather than reducing its role and unshackling entrepreneurial forces, as Sarkozy (and Merkel) have advocated...
...French see these elections as a replay of May 29," says StephaneŽ Rozes, one of France's most astute pollsters. "The good showing of the Left Party represents a real problem for reformers, whether that's Dominique Strauss-Kahn among the Socialists or even Villepin on the center-right. The fact is that even in defending the German Social Model, Schroeder lost three points...