Word: chirac
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...firm handshake and an unexpected round of applause saw incoming French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday usher his predecessor from the Elysee Palace - and out of a political career that spanned nearly four decades. It also officially ushered Jacques Chirac's 12-year presidential record into history, where his domestic and international legacies will be a matter of ongoing debate...
...Currently, conventional wisdom in France on the Chirac presidency is not exactly flattering. His hesitancy to press domestic reforms and willingness to alllow his policy decisions to be reversed by street protests has long caused fellow conservatives to grouse about national immobilisme...
...France's economic stagnation were not taint enough on his presidential record, when his presidential immunity expires in June, Citizen Chirac may well face trial on corruption charges dating from his tenure as mayor of Paris in the 1980s and early 1990s...
...what it's getting in Sarkozy. "The people voted for him because he had a clear and concrete message," he says. Sarkozy's taste for direct action is bound to make the Elysée Palace a hub of policy making that it hasn't been under President Jacques Chirac. Manuel Aeschlimann, Sarkozy's special adviser for public opinion, says: "He injects himself in everything. There are very few things he considers negligible. He's vigorous, young and full of spirit. We'll have a very different Elys...
...seems, France and Britain are separated by much more than the English Channel. Aside from their distinctive histories and identities, Britain and France in recent years have been on totally different trajectories--London up, Paris down. Personal relations between the two leaders of the past decade, President Jacques Chirac and Prime Minister Tony Blair, have been prickly. Opposing positions on everything from the war in Iraq to European farm subsidies have at times degenerated into public shouting matches...