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Quaero, ergo sum: I search, therefore I am. That could be the new Internet mantra if an ambitious European Internet project lives up to its hype. The proposed search engine, a Franco-German joint public and private initiative, was trumpeted by French President Jacques Chirac as an attempt to "launch with our European partners the first genuinely multimedia search engine" to meet the "global challenge" issued by U.S.-based Google and Yahoo!. The project's chief selling point is said to be a revolutionary capability to search as well as translate audio and video sources. But details are scarce: Thomson...
...country to pull the plug on nuclear power. "We now see with the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine how quickly we can become vulnerable," said Edmund Stoiber, the Governor of Bavaria. In France, which already relies on nuclear energy for more than 75% of its electricity, President Jacques Chirac announced plans to develop a new generation of reactors. In Ukraine itself, critics worried about the likelihood of big price rises in the future. And the pivotal role in the deal given to a Swiss-based intermediary company partly owned by unnamed Ukrainian investors increased concerns for some. "What...
...Power Failure I was pleased to read "The Man Who Wasn't There" by political commentator Alain Duhamel [Nov. 28]. It's rewarding to see that a French intellectual realizes that France is in bad shape and that he has an explanation for the failure of French President Jacques Chirac to do what he was elected for. As Duhamel wrote, "Chirac has failed to tackle France's two most pressing social problems: unemployment and the integration of immigrant populations." Duhamel and other French intellectuals must now accept that all the French psychobabble about victimized youth did not explain the riots...
...would never do. Although as a nonprofit they are forbidden to lobby for legislation, they are allowed to "educate." They opened an office in Washington and began meeting with politicians all over the world, including British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, French President Jacques Chirac and U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
...European affairs, so much so that former French Foreign Minister and European Commissioner Michel Barnier says Brussels is "worried whether France will play its part in getting Europe going again." The questions of discrimination and colonial legacies raised by the riots, along with the gathering political battle to succeed Chirac, have kept France introverted. In Germany, Merkel is trying to walk a narrow line between the need for economic reform and the maintenance of a fragile coalition with her own Christian Democrats and the Social Democrats - both of which are undergoing painful internal shakedowns. Hosting Chirac in Berlin last week...