Juppe and Seguin battle it out for leadership of defeated GaullistsMR Philippe Seguin, the outgoing speaker of parliament, set the tone on the fatal night of the June 1st election when he predicted…Thu Jun 05 1997 - 01:00
Mitterand's rebellious heir chooses another difficult pathWHEN Lionel Jospin was a student at the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) the French institute that trains high-ranking …Wed Jun 04 1997 - 01:00
A depressed but well-dressed Juppe hands over palace privileges to a rumpled JospinTHE REPUBLICAN guards of the French gendarmerie's second infantry regiment were waiting on the steps of the Matignon palace for…Wed Jun 04 1997 - 01:00
Disarray on French right risks driving more to FrontPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac's decision to dissolve parliament now seems so insane that the French have resorted to pseudo Freudian…Tue Jun 03 1997 - 01:00
Jospin accepts Chirac's request to form government during harmonious meetingPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac did not waste any time cleaning up the mess after his RPR UDF centre right coalition was devastated …Tue Jun 03 1997 - 01:00
A tale of three cities, three candidates and rejection of the right's vision for FranceMANTES LA JOLIE, a town of 45,000 people, 50 kilometres west of Paris, is that rare phenomenon sought after by journalists and…Mon Jun 02 1997 - 01:00
Win likely to help create more socially oriented EULIKE a man who was trying to hammer one nail into the wall, President Jacques Chirac ended up destroying not only his apartment…Mon Jun 02 1997 - 01:00
Chirac, Jospin line out togetherMAYBE they'll discover a shared interest in rugbySat May 31 1997 - 01:00
Centre-right believes it may have winning ticketTHREE days before parliamentary elections, secretaries are boxing up archives and shredding documents in the ministries that …Fri May 30 1997 - 01:00
Jospin and Lafontaine project EU visionTHE FRENCH Socialist party isn't in government yet, but that didn't stop Mr Lionel Jospin from issuing a joint declaration on…Thu May 29 1997 - 01:00
Political catchphrases that possess the elan of a mooseEVERY election campaign has its vocabularyThu May 29 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
West refrains from saying who lost the Cold WarWHILE they euphorically announced the end of the division of Europe that began at the 1945 Yalta Conference, NATO leaders in …Wed May 28 1997 - 01:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
