I have heard – and I do not know if I should believe it because you are attributed many words you have not uttered – that you would not be against entrusting the EU presidency to Felipe González. You must understand that if, from abroad, we do not like economic decline, corruption, and abdicating the rule of law for a country such as France, we do not think it is a model for Europe, either. We have learned something about those things in Spain. Descargar PDF

The Iran crisis shows the new French diplomacy in action. Like in the days of Talleyrand, Paris speaks about war in order to give diplomacy a chance. One of the reasons for the failures reaped to date with Iran is that, quite rightly, the ayatollahs have not been taking Europe’s threats seriously. Download PDF Descargar PDF

Back at the dawn of the new millen-nium in 1999, when a Socialist gov-ernment was preparing France's golden future, a cabinet minister told a reporter that, very confidentially, the 35-hour workweek it was pushing into law would really serve to bring flexibility into the country's palsied job market. Download PDF

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