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...Brussels, Europe's elected leaders are either on the defensive or lame ducks. After his party was trounced in a state poll last month, German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has called a snap election for the fall - which he looks likely to lose. In France, President Jacques Chirac is foundering after his country's voters rejected the European Constitution; in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair recently saw his parliamentary majority sharply reduced; and in recessionary Italy, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is struggling to cling to power. Meanwhile, Commission President José Manuel Barroso is still new in the job. Small...
...stumbling blocks: U.S. and E.U. subsidies to their sugar growers, which distort world market prices. But French officials are nervous about the wto and some are deeply suspicious of Mandelson, viewing him as Blair's man in Brussels. That could make it hard for him to persuade Chirac and other leaders that a further liberalization of trade is in their interest. "There's a much higher risk of only a modest outcome to the Doha round," because of antiglobalization fears in Europe, says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics. Others are more pessimistic. Kenneth...
...then Hariri's enemies went too far. On an October trip to France to meet with French President Jacques Chirac, Hariri received word of an assassination attempt on Marwan Hamade, a member of parliament who had voted against Lahoud. Hariri saw the attempted hit as a warning. Nineteen days later, he quit as Prime Minister, writing Lahoud, "I entrust revered Lebanon and its good people to God Almighty...
...would open a period of divisions, of doubts, of uncertainties." jacques chirac, President of France, on the expected rejection by French voters of the European Union constitution...
...JACQUES CHIRAC, French President, warning French voters of the impact of rejecting the European Union constitution...