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...Sarkozy also demonstrated his crowd-pleasing flair in tapping Jacques Attali, a leftist intellectual and erstwhile adviser to former Socialist President Fran?ois Mitterrand, to head an elite panel on ways to unshackle the economy. Attali's appointment continues Sarkozy's habit of "opening" government to leading figures from the opposition. "When you get down to it, maybe be I'm the person who knows how to exploit the talents of the Socialist Party best," he said sardonically. "They have very good people, and ones they hardly use at all. Maybe during another incarnation I was a director of human resources...
...sure, Reagan was not the only weakened leader in Venice. Wits went too far in talking about a "lame-duck summit." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was re-elected in January, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was on the verge of winning a third term, and French President Francois Mitterrand has recouped his popularity. But Prime Ministers Amintore Fanfani of Italy and Yasuhiro Nakasone of Japan are due to step down soon, and Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney is in severe political trouble at home. No wonder that their deliberations in a 17th century monastery on the island...
...Relief rather than triumph was the prevailing mood outside Socialist headquarters. Their road to the Elysee Palace remains an uphill climb. Although Royal's first round vote tally of 25.8% is better than Francois Mitterrand's performance in his victorious 1981 presidential run, Sarkozy's 31.1% is even more formidable. While the Socialist candidate can count on the backing of most far-left candidates in the runoff, their first-round share added with the Socialists' is only 36.2%. And if much of Jean Marie Le Pen's 10.4% transfer their support to the tough-on-immigration Sarkozy, the outcome...
Suez, of course, built the Suez Canal, but after the seaway was nationalized by Egypt in 1956, the company became largely a financial operator. It was nationalized in turn by the Socialist government of François Mitterrand in 1982, a disastrous move that was reversed in 1987, one year before the company got a big piece of Belgium's electricity industry through a merger with the Société Générale de Belgique. Lyonnaise, for its part, had been shorn of its gas and electricity assets by France's nationalization efforts in 1946. The two merged completely...
True, that judgment would have been harder to make in the early 1990s. Then, Jacques Delors was the President of the European Commission, the single currency was being planned, and François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl were shaping European policy. It seemed certain that political union would follow the economic variety and the E.U. become a second democratic Atlantic superpower. But that dream was curdled by European dithering in the Balkan wars and by the concomitant realization that European electorates had no stomach for displays of superpowerdom as they have been conventionally measured: that is to say, in killing...