Word: gaullists
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...meet this week in Berlin, but despite the obligatory grins and displays of solidarity, the Three Amigos they are not. Not long ago Blair was warning publicly that Chirac was trying to drag Europe down a dead end of reflexive opposition to the U.S. in pursuit of a moldy Gaullist dream of French glory - and complaining privately that Chirac had it in for him. Chirac thought Blair was blindly following a dangerous unilateralist. Schröder tried to patch things up, but also made it clear that if forced to choose, he would pick France - not only on Iraq...
...from an illicit jobs scheme run out of Paris' City Hall from 1988 to 1995, when Chirac was mayor and Juppé his finance director. The stratagem, one of half a dozen Chirac-era setups now being investigated, allegedly provided bogus municipal jobs to seven officials of Chirac's Gaullist Party, whose salaries were funneled back into party coffers. French parties long relied on such illegal schemes for funding, but until last week few political heavyweights had been convicted for it. But Juppé's stiff sentence may mark a turning point in the way France deals with the casual...
...meantime, some help is on the way. This week, some 10,000 soldiers from more than 20 countries - many of them in "new Europe," that loose amalgam of young, hungry, former Soviet-bloc states planning to join the E.U., and those in the West who are uncomfortable with the Gaullist tilt of the Franco-German axis - will be fully mustered in Iraq under the command of Polish General Andrzej Tyszkiewicz to help the Yanks and Brits shoulder what looks like a long and hazardous occupation. Serving alongside 2,300 Polish soldiers will be 1,600 soldiers from Ukraine...
...bribes via Swiss accounts to African leaders including Savimbi and Gabon President Omar Bongo, as well as to channel money to the two main French political parties. Pressed by Desplan, 47, the pugnacious presiding judge, Le Floch-Prigent described how Elf's payoffs in France first tilted toward the Gaullist party of Jacques Chirac until then-President François Mitterrand, a Socialist, personally summoned him to ask for "more balanced" treatment. Le Floch-Prigent and Sirven haven't named names, and Chirac himself has not been implicated in the case, but the sums are substantial. Le Floch-Prigent estimated...
...this make France leader of the global opposition. It would also restore France to what it sees as its rightful place as leader of Europe. Which is why the great subplot in the Iraq drama is the fate of Tony Blair. Blair represents precisely the alternative vision--Churchillian vs. Gaullist--of accepting and working with American leadership in the world. Chirac's U.N. stand has caused Blair huge political difficulties at home, where much of his own Labour Party opposes him on Iraq. If Blair can be politically destroyed, France will have demonstrated to the world the price of going...