Yeltsin surprises NATO with promise to disarm warheadsEIGHTEEN men in dark suits buried the Cold War at the Elysee Presidential Palace yesterday.Wed May 28 1997 - 01:00
Chirac searches for elusive `elan'IT DIDN'T look or sound like a desperate plea for supportWed May 28 1997 - 01:00
French PM announces he will resign on June 1st following election setbackTHE French Prime Minister, Mr Alain Juppe, announced yesterday he will resign on the evening of June 1st, when the second round…Tue May 27 1997 - 01:00
Chirac's mistimed throw of the diceTHE morning newspaper headlines told the story: "Chirac Trapped", said Le ParisienTue May 27 1997 - 01:00
Over 31% stayed home in snub to Juppe and ChiracWHEN French voters were called to the polls for the first round of parliamentary elections on Sunday, they punished the Prime…Tue May 27 1997 - 01:00
France goes to the polls disenchanted with politicians and rising unemploymentNICOLE SCHMID is President Jacques Chirac's nightmare. She isn't against him, just indifferent.Mon May 26 1997 - 01:00
Left causes an upset in first round of French electionsPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac's ruling centre right coalition suffered a defeat in the first round of voting in French parliamentary…Mon May 26 1997 - 01:00
Le Pen makes them laugh as he wows and cajoles his right wing audienceIN HIS last performance before the first round of French legislative elections tomorrow, Mr JeanMarie Le Pen, the leader of the…Sat May 24 1997 - 01:00
Election attention turns to resented elitist `enarques'MAYBE it was just a ploy for attention by a politician on the campaign trailFri May 23 1997 - 01:00
Chirac, Juppe use Kohl visit to portray the left as a threat to France's status in the EUFLANKED by French and European flags and in the presence of his main European ally, the German Chancellor, Mr KohlThu May 22 1997 - 01:00
If Chirac retains his lightning rod it will be because of his ability to take the hateMR ALAIN JUPPE knows how to take abuseWed May 21 1997 - 01:00
THE FEMME FACTORWHEN the late Francois Mitterrand made Cresson France's first woman prime minister in 1991; the move was greeted with immense…Tue May 20 1997 - 01:00
Jospin fails to hold students in palm of handTHE Socialist Youth Movement scoured the campuses all day, trying to fill the Zenith concert hall for Mr Lionel Jospin's big …Tue May 20 1997 - 01:00
PM carries on regardless of "race" for his jobWANTED: stern disciplinarian with a masochistic bent, to assume France's most thankless job after elections in early June.Thu May 15 1997 - 01:00
Chirac and his hosts to measure arms sale against human rightsHOW many fighter bombers are worth the freedom of a Chinese dissident? That. baldly statedThu May 15 1997 - 01:00
Moves made to strengthen WEUMR Herve de Charette and Mr Charles Millon, France's foreign and defence ministers, yesterday announced new measures to strengthen…Wed May 14 1997 - 01:00
Chirac takes roller-coaster ride to tryst with EuropeTHERE must be moments when French President Jacques Chirac wishes he could turn the clock back to April 21st and just let the…Wed May 14 1997 - 01:00
Message of reconciliation falls on stony groundSIXTEEN year old Samia Khoury, a Maronite Catholic secondary school student, was among 20,000 who went to see the Pope at the…Mon May 12 1997 - 01:00
Beirut to bombard Pope with paperUP UNTIL the last minute, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese were afraid that Pope John Paul II might cancel his 32 hour visit…Sat May 10 1997 - 01:00
Politicians in France welcome Blair with unanimityIT'S been ages since French politicians reacted to an event with unanimity, but Tony Blair's election victory had something good…Sat May 03 1997 - 01:00
Joan of Arc hijacked as Le Pen backs in adulation of thousandsPOOR Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans must turn in her grave every May 1st, for since 1988 the extreme right-wing National Front…Fri May 02 1997 - 01:00
Waning of French influence underscored by the recent death of `Monsieur Afrique'THE failure of France's Africa policy was writ large between the lines of the Foreign Minister's carefully worded statementFri May 02 1997 - 01:00
Where the women still wait for the chance to go homeBRACKISH water from under ground aquifers gives them diarrhoea, trachoma and scabies, mottles their teeth and makes their bones…Thu May 01 1997 - 01:00
Socialists and Greens agree to put up joint candidates, Communists join jobs manifestoFRANCE's left wing Socialists, Communists and ecologists have concluded alliances for the parliamentary elections on May 25th…Thu May 01 1997 - 01:00
Our team can't smell sand yet to get homeTHERE's a story they tell around here, of an old Sahrawi who smells the sand to find his way in the desertWed Apr 30 1997 - 01:00
UN envoy meets Polisario for talks on autonomy for Sahrawi peopleHE WAS greeted like the Great White HopeTue Apr 29 1997 - 01:00
Juppe cast as punchbag in bruising contestFRANCE is in for a brutal one month election campaign, the Prime Minister, Mr Alain Juppe, has warned, and much of the brutality…Sat Apr 26 1997 - 01:00
Deserted villagesFULGENCE Bienvenue's little white house stands on a windswept crossroads, opposite the statue of a first World War poiluSat Apr 26 1997 - 01:00
Coalition presented as force of modernityTHE front lines in Frances one month parliamentary election campaign were drawn yesterday.Wed Apr 23 1997 - 01:00
Chirac calls early election to seek support for reformTHE FRENCH President, Mr Jacques Chirac, last night dissolved parliament and called early elections to take place on May 25th…Tue Apr 22 1997 - 01:00
Chirac ponders election optionsPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac will be pacing the halls of the Elysee Palace this weekend as he mulls over one of the most crucial …Sat Apr 19 1997 - 01:00
Pound's value may drop on euro eveTHE Irish pound may decrease in value when convergence criteria for the euro are finally decided in December 1998Fri Apr 18 1997 - 01:00
Early poll holds strong temptations for ChiracFRENCH journalists wished they had tarot cards or tea leaves to read yesterday, as speculation about President Jacques Chirac…Thu Apr 17 1997 - 01:00
French salute Collins film"LE grand type", "le grand mec", "le grand bonhomme" and "grand gars" - who would have thought there were so many ways to translate…Thu Apr 17 1997 - 01:00
Workers use slogans of protest from an economic horror storyTHE French medical students who have protested for the past five weeks against social security reforms said they were rebelling…Wed Apr 16 1997 - 01:00
Slaughter goes on as 173 die in 10 daysONLY the numbers and names of the villages change in the past 10 days, 173 people have been shot or hacked to death, burned or…Tue Apr 15 1997 - 01:00
Mitterand phone tap accusations multiplyALL week, French politicians have exchanged threats, denials and accusations in the scandal caused by the late President Francois…Sat Apr 12 1997 - 01:00
Anti terrorist cell used by Mitterand to spy on enemiesLATE French President Francois Mitterrand, used an "anti terrorist cell" at the Elysee Palace as a personal secret police force…Tue Apr 08 1997 - 01:00
Villagers decapitated and set alight in massacre by Algerian IslamistsALGERIAN newspapers have reported one of the most gruesome massacres in the country's five year civil war with some of the victims…Mon Apr 07 1997 - 01:00
Motor scootering president can risk leaving toothbrush at homeWHEN he was elected president of the former Czechoslovak Federation in 1989, Vaclav Havel wore blue jeans to work and rode a …Sat Apr 05 1997 - 01:00
Chirac aims for new European defence identityWHENEVER he is asked about problems, President Chirac begins by saying he is optimisticFri Apr 04 1997 - 01:00
Chirac tackles "noble" subject of business with reluctant EuropeansPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac began his first state visit to the Czech Republic yesterday, completing a tour of central European capitals…Thu Apr 03 1997 - 01:00
A house that is divided unto itselfSCHIZOPHRENIC is the best word to describe it, historian Leon Strauss told me in his book-lined study in Strasbourg's German …Wed Apr 02 1997 - 01:00
Bulldog spirit seizes on power of a siege mentalityIT WAS here, in the City of Europe, that the French National Front (FN) leader, Mr Jean Marie Le Pen, unleashed his fiercest …Tue Apr 01 1997 - 01:00
Triumphal Le Pen proposes European alliance of right"FRANCE'S extreme right wing National Front (FN) celebrated the re election of its president and founder, Mr Jean Marie Le Pen…Mon Mar 31 1997 - 01:00
Left demonstrates that Le Pen's show is not only one in townWHEN the people of Strasbourg woke up yesterday morning, a huge black flag was waving from the steeple of their cathedralSat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
In the blink of an eye...JEAN-Dominique Bauby had everything a man could want, and he was only 43Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Irishman condemns "lucky dip" French justice systemWHEN French police arrested Stephen King at his Brittany home in October 1992, they told the Irishman from Tyrone that they did…Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
