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 8 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 7 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 5 1997 - 01:00
Chirac aims for new European defence identityWHENEVER he is asked about problems, President Chirac begins by saying he is optimisticFri Apr 4 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 3 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 2 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 1 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
Fromage and French fries lose appeal as Paris prefers restaurant romanceWHEN the American fast food giant McDonald's studied French national taste buds, they didn't find tiny papillae wearing berets…Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
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
Megret presents National Front as principled DavidIF THERE is violence at Strasbourg this Easter weekend, it won't be the fault of Mr Bruno MegretWed Mar 26 1997 - 00:00
Hideous desecration of Jewish corpse linked to racist views of National FrontFELIX GERMON had been three weeks in the grave when neo Nazi skinheads broke into the Jewish cemetery in the southern French …Fri Mar 21 1997 - 00:00
"Monsieur Afrique", France's neo colonial architect, diesJACQUES FOCCART, the architect of France's African policy for nearly four decades, died in Paris yesterday morning at the age…Thu Mar 20 1997 - 00:00
Government may have ordered journalists' murders, says reportTHE Algerian government has persistently harassed and muzzled the media and is even suspected of ordering the murder of some …Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
5m infected by hepatitis C - studyAS MANY as five million Europeans have been infected by the hepatitis C virus in a massive epidemic, a study just completed by…Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
Bishop's invisible diocese of the poor, the persecuted and the downtroddenIN other times, Monsignor Jacques Gaillot might have been burned as a hereticWed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
French celebrate jour de feteST PATRICK, the Disney Village Celtic Festival press handout informed us, "was filled with human goodwill and mischievous humour…Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00
"Islamicisation" of Egypt continues unabated as injustices still flourishVIOLENCE by Muslim extremists might have diminished in Egypt, but the "Islamicisation" of Egyptian society continues unabated…Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00
Why once similar conflicts in Egypt and Algeria now differFOR half a century Egypt and Algeria, the two giants of North Africa, have shared similar fatesMon Mar 17 1997 - 00:00
The world distrusts France on AfricaFRANCE'S tattered African policy suffered another defeat this week when President Jacques Chirac's proposal for a military/humanitarian…Fri Mar 14 1997 - 00:00
The woman who brought the sun outWHEN the President, Mrs Robinson, visited France in May 1996 for Imaginaire Irlandais, the six month festival of contemporary…Thu Mar 13 1997 - 00:00
Bereaved fight for French justiceTHERE is no grief so terrible as the loss of a childTue Mar 4 1997 - 00:00
Deported immigrants injure 22 gendarmes in riotDEPORTING illegal immigrants is turning out to be an expensive and violent business for the French governmentMon Mar 3 1997 - 00:00
Paris revives old NATO tensions with USPRESIDENT Charles de Gaulle shocked the world when he announced 31 years ago that France was withdrawing from NATO's integrated…Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00
Chirac, Juppe struggle to contain heat generated by immigration billTHE FRENCH Prime Minister, Mr Alain Juppe, tried to calm things before the parliamentary debate on immigration beganThu Feb 27 1997 - 00:00
France finally wakes up to the `Le Pen-isation of minds'FRENCH papers print acres of newsprint about it. Radio and television report little elseWed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00
Islamist assassination group recruits members from the intellectual milieu it attacksTEN days after the Algerian trade union leader Abdelhak Benhamouda was gunned down in Algiers with two of his bodyguards a little…Sat Feb 22 1997 - 00:00
Risque film poster granted all-clear by Paris tribunalTHE French love a debat d'idees, so this week they watched with rapt attention as Charismatic Christians allied with the extreme…Fri Feb 21 1997 - 00:00
Deng's French connection is recalled amid Chirac praisesDENG Xiaoping was a worker in the Paris Renault automobile factory in the 1920s (and President Jacques Chirac's letters of condolence…Thu Feb 20 1997 - 00:00
French government fails to counteract rise in racismIT was after midnight January 10th when Kamel Saber, a 31 year old French man and the son of Algerian immigrants, started home…Sat Feb 15 1997 - 00:00
A city where it's a cats' and dogs lifeWHEN ambassadors call at the foreign ministry on the Quai d'Orsay, they sit with a long-haired grey and white cat in the waiting…Wed Feb 12 1997 - 00:00
Shrewd shadow candidate of National Front saw failings of left and rightMR BRUNO Megret couldn't wait to take over the Hotel de Ville his wife won for him on SundayTue Feb 11 1997 - 00:00
French National Front wins its fourth mayoral electionTHE RIGHT wing National Front (EN) yesterday won the mayor's office in Vitrolles, the fourth French city to be taken over by …Mon Feb 10 1997 - 00:00
Bitter townships where FN means to impose orderSHE was in enemy territory, Catherine Megret admittedMon Feb 10 1997 - 00:00
Paris salutes Serbian opposition leadersTHE LEADERS of the Serbian opposition coalition Zajedno (Together) met the French Foreign Minister, Mr Herve de Charette, here…Fri Feb 7 1997 - 00:00
Husband of murdered woman files criminal proceedingsTHE husband and parents of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, the French woman murdered in West Cork in December have filed criminal …Thu Feb 6 1997 - 00:00
French influx for jobs in IrelandEVERY year, hundreds of young French men arrive in the Republic looking for something they can no longer find in France: jobs…Wed Feb 5 1997 - 00:00
Juppe calls for pact as looming National Front win spreads alarm in other partiesPOLITICIANS from France's conservative majority and the left wing opposition yesterday reacted with alarm to the success of the…Tue Feb 4 1997 - 00:00
Tapie's game of hide and seek is drawing to a closeBEHIND the heavy wooden gates band cobblestone courtyard of Bernard Tapie's elegant hotel particular in the rue des Saints Peres…Mon Feb 3 1997 - 00:00
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