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BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 John Rossant |
France: Chirac's Protege Is No Poodle 71-year-old President Jacques Chirac is facing an unprecedented challenge from his onetime protege, Nicolas Sarkozy. |
BusinessWeek February 16, 2004 |
French Voters May Slam Chirac & Co. The decision of France's ruling center-right party chief Alain Juppe to remain in politics could spur a voter backlash. |
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Carol Matlack |
Man In The Middle Of A Firestorm As riots rage, France's Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy is feeling the heat for his tough policing tactics. |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Rossant & Bonnet |
France's Crackdown On Islamic Radicals As French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin forcefully led the fierce diplomatic opposition to U.S. and British plans to attack Saddam Hussein. Now, as his country's Interior Minister, Villepin is applying the same bold style to countering Islamic radicalism at home. |
BusinessWeek September 19, 2005 Carol Matlack |
France: More Talk, Little Action Is that a bracing wind of political change blowing across France, or just a lot of hot air? With President Jacques Chirac temporarily sidelined, the campaign for President in 2007 has suddenly picked up momentum. |
BusinessWeek November 21, 2005 Carol Matlack |
Crisis In France How welfare state economics failed a generation in France. |
BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 |
The Sarkozy Express: Straight At Chirac The French Finance Minister is a big favorite to become head of President Jacques Chirac's center-right Union for a Popular Movement later this year and has made clear he would use the post as a springboard to run for President in 2007. Can he be stopped? |
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 Carol Matlack |
Can A Lame Duck Keep French Reform Alive? It's the ax that didn't fall. Just about everyone in France expected Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin to lose his job after the poor showing of the ruling center-right coalition in elections on Mar. 21 and 28. |
BusinessWeek March 14, 2005 Carol Matlack |
Curing France's Economic Malaise Even turnaround whiz Thierry Breton may not be able to help energize France's economy. |
Geotimes May 2004 Megan Sever |
French Science Crisis On March 9, more than 2,000 French science research laboratory directors and team leaders tendered their resignations of administrative and management duties in protest over what they call "draconian cuts" in government scientific spending and research jobs. |
BusinessWeek July 18, 2005 |
Fallout From The Olympics Decision Embattled French President Jacques Chirac will be further weakened by the rejection of Paris' bid for the 2012 Olympic games. |
BusinessWeek January 31, 2005 John Rossant |
Liberte, Egalite, Affirmative Action An Algerian-born executive is leading the French campaign to counter racism in hiring. If no action is taken, France runs the risk of a social explosion. |
BusinessWeek September 20, 2004 John Rossant |
France: Fraying Ties To The Arab World Its pro-Arab diplomacy isn't helping in the wake of a kidnapping in Iraq. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Carol Matlack |
For Europe, Opportunity Knocks Why the votes against the EU constitution may strengthen Europe. |
BusinessWeek June 14, 2004 John Rossant |
The U.S. And Europe: Friends Again, For Now Are transatlantic relations on the mend? The mood music surrounding George W. Bush's early June trip to France promises to sound downright friendly. |
BusinessWeek July 9, 2007 Carol Matlack |
Sarkozy's Free-Market Muscle France's Finance Minister Lagarde could help President Nicolas Sarkozy cut spending and reduce red tape. |
BusinessWeek November 29, 2004 John Rossant |
France's Industrial Power Trip Paris can't stop interfering with the economy -- and that's bad news for Europe. |
BusinessWeek May 3, 2004 John Rossant |
An Alliance In Ruins Brief reviews of two books, "Dangerous De-Liaisons" and
"The French Betrayal of America," and a more indepth look at relations between France and the U.S. |
Reason June 2006 Cathy Young |
The Jihad Against Muslims Radical Islam poses problems for the West, from within and from without. But if our response turns to bigotry directed at all Muslims, it will leave little reason for hope. |
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Carol Matlack |
Time To Tame This Electrical Storm Workers may be up in arms, but France should privatize its giant utility Electricite de France. |
BusinessWeek January 9, 2006 Carol Matlack |
Mon Dieu, A Media Breakthrough France's Presidential hopeful Nicolas Sarkozy is the first to make his pitch in a podcast. |
Salon.com October 22, 2001 Max Garrone |
Fundamental problems Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share... |
ifeminists March 25, 2003 Wendy McElroy |
Laying Down 'the White Woman's Burden' The most recent stereotype to bombard the American psyche is of the Muslim woman who lives veiled and in fear of all men who, by virtue of their maleness, are her oppressors. But is it true in general of Arab-Muslim women who have become the focus of world attention? |
CFO September 1, 2007 Janet Kersnar |
View from Europe: The French Disconnection Friendly, but not friends -- such is the relationship between France's new President and CFOs. |
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 John Rossant |
The Pernicious Rise Of "Core Europe" Germany and France are building a bloc to preserve their political and economic influence. |
Parameters Autumn 2006 Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy. |
BusinessWeek June 20, 2005 Jack Ewing |
A Specter Is Haunting Europe: The Left Can Europe's long-splintered traditional Left come back as a real political movement? |
Chemistry World October 14, 2010 Laura Howes |
France and Spain commit funds to research The 'knowledge economy' has been declared a priority for the governments of both France and Spain, as they announce extra funds for higher education and research in their 2011 budgets. |
Reason April 2007 Brian Doherty |
Google Envy In 2005 France and Germany decided to subsidize and develop a new Internet search engine that would not have to be channeled through American technology. However, a government Google may not be so successful. |
BusinessWeek January 17, 2005 Cooper & Madigan |
France: Not A Lot Of Gas In This Job Engine Will a new year mean more new jobs for French workers? President Jacques Chirac has made better employment growth a focus for 2005. But private economists are skeptical that France can grow fast enough to generate a pickup in hiring. |
TIME Asia August 16, 2010 |
Inbox Readers comment on the new GM Volt, the burqa ban in France, the economy, and terrorism. |
BusinessWeek October 6, 2003 John Rossant |
The Real War Is France vs. France Resentment of the U.S. is being challenged by a growing cadre of French thinkers. |
BusinessWeek October 21, 2010 Gregory Viscusi |
Immigrants in the West Aren't Going Away Anti-immigrant feeling is running high in the West, yet the economic need for immigrants' labor and spending power remains strong. |
Reason November 2007 Juliet Samuel |
Speed for Sale Highway robbery in France: At least one French market has taken off -- the trade in speeding penalties. |
Reason December 2001 Sam MacDonald |
Interview: A Different Sort of Conservative Muslim Abdulwahab Alkebsi is the executive director of the Islamic Institute, a Washington think tank that "facilitates the development of grassroots Muslim political movements that are economically conservative"... |
Salon.com September 28, 2001 Kristin Hohenadel |
Bonjour indeed Once fond of clucking at us, France has found a new love for America... |
Salon.com September 26, 2001 Jake Tapper |
Islam's flawed spokesmen Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against terrorist groups... |
BusinessWeek April 4, 2005 |
Chirac vs. The EU: Tension Is On The Rise Friction is growing between French President Jacques Chirac and some of his neighbors over arms to China, Britain's EU rebate, and Europe's new constitution. |
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 John Rossant |
Give This Employment Policy The Guillotine France's 35-hour workweek has been a disaster -- so why is it intact? |
BusinessWeek January 15, 2007 |
They're Muslims, And Yankees, Too A book examines the duality of Muslim-American life. |
Chemistry World December 21, 2009 Ned Stafford |
French researchers get funding boost French President Nicolas Sarkozy caught the Christmas spirit early this year, announcing plans to increase spending by 35 billion Euros to boost the nation's scientific and technological competitiveness. |
BusinessWeek April 12, 2004 John Rossant |
Europe Is Playing With Fire Just about everywhere you look in Europe, the protectionist rhetoric is rising. Keeping national control over key companies and industries is seen as a way to make sure jobs don't evaporate. |
BusinessWeek June 10, 2010 Tara Patel |
French Women Storm the Corporate Boardroom French boardrooms have long been a male domain. A proposal requiring that at least 40 percent of directors be women could change that. |
The Motley Fool April 10, 2006 Rich Smith |
France Surrenders President Jacques Chirac replaced Article 8 of the law on equal opportunities with measures in favor of the professional insertion of young people in difficulty. Great news for the workers, but less so for local companies and foreign investors. |
Reason February 2004 Cathy Young |
Hating Jews When do anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism overlap? |
AskMen.com Simon Kuper |
Race and European Soccer International soccer has been a place of diversity from the start, and despite the wistful musing of some in France, it's becoming ever more so. |
BusinessWeek October 10, 2005 Carol Matlack |
HP's French Twist Why Hewlett Packard's plan to lay off 1,200 in France has reverberated all the way up to President Chirac's office. |
TIME Asia November 22, 2010 |
Inbox Readers offer their comments on the American Dream, the French pension problem, and current politics and the mid-term election. |
Registered Rep. January 1, 2003 Bennett Voyles |
Serving Muslim Investors Reconciling Muslim religious requirements with standard Western investment practices isn't easy, but brokers say their basics are not difficult to understand. |
ifeminists February 7, 2007 Wendy McElroy |
Culture Connection: Your New Muslim Neighbors The assimilation of North America's Muslim population will involve wrestling with some odd questions. The answers may well be foreshadowed by two recent events in Canada, which represent polar opposite reactions. |