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Euractive (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... and/or long-term, low-interest loans to fund urban transport upgrades could help cities cope, Alain Juppé, a former French prime minister and current mayor of Bordeaux, said during the workshop. But the current squeeze on financing due to the spreading economic crisis that has blocked the flow of capital in European and international money markets is a problem, Juppé admitted....
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
... with executive power has been mooted for Dublin, it is instructive to see what one French mayor - Alain Juppé - has managed to deliver in a remarkably short time, turning Bordeaux into "an exemplar of a historic city that has been positively transformed", as Ó Laoire said.It might have been very different. Juppé's predecessor, Jacques Chaban Delmas, who (like him) had also...
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The First Post (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... government and military, including ex-prime ministers Dominique de Villepin, Edouard Balladur and Alain Juppe, as well as generals and colonels. The historical roots of the Rwandan atrocity go back to colonial times. After Rwanda gained independence from Belgium in 1962, the Hutu majority took over power. They blamed the minority Tutsis, who the Belgians had favoured with positions...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
... 13 politicians including former French prime minister Edouard Balladur, former foreign minister Alain Juppe and then president Francois Mitterrand, who died in 1996. They were accused of playing a role in the massacres. The report also names 20 French military officials. Before resorting to legal recourse, Kagame said he was waiting for the French authorities to take action. “They...
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Peregrinations (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
... out with their baskets and their poodles for a little local colour. (Rumour has it that the mayor Alain Juppé often has his driver drop him off just round the corner where he unloads his bike from the boot then cycles around the market stopping to shake the occasional hand and make some token purchase.) The market at Saint Michel is nothing like that - it's big and authentic and full...
