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findingDulcinea (Free subscription) | yesterday
... it took until 1981, when the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her French counterpart Francois Mitterrand came to office, for real progress to begin. were proposed, as Thatcher and Mitterrand debated the options.To Mrs. Thatcher, some sort of underground motorway was the only solution. “I shall be the first to drive through the tunnel at the wheel of my car,” she...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 27/11/2008
... the 35-hour working week – who will follow in linear succession to, inter alia, the late President François Mitterrand and the former prime minister Lionel Jospin as the head of France's centre-left "party of government".If France was any other European country, Mme Aubry would be regarded as the probable main challenger to President Nicolas Sarkozy at the next presidential election...
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... no guarantee of election success.THREATS OF LAWSUITSThe once-mighty Socialists, whose late leader Francois Mitterrand ruled France for 14 years until 1995, have lost the last three presidential elections and seem unable to extricate themselves from endless internal rows and personality clashes.The glamorous Royal, who suffered a heavy defeat to Sarkozy in the 2007 presidential poll,...
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... the Socialists' left wing — while Royal wants to open up to centrists. Aubry will replace Francois Hollande, the former companion of Royal and father of her four children, who has been at the party's helm for nearly a dozen years.Conservatives have repeatedly mocked the Socialists' woes."It is carnage on a grand scale," Nadine Morano, the junior minister for the family, told reporters at...
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SOCIALISM OR YOUR MONEY BACK (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
... Not in Britain but in France, following the election as President of Labour-type reformist François Mitterrand in May 1981 and his party’s victory in the general election that followed in June. One of their election promises was to abandon the austerity approach of the previous conservative government in favour of:“a relaunch of economic activity by an increase in the purchasing power...
