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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... 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 in 2012. In France, and especially in the Parti Socialiste,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... Delors, Aubry was the candidate of the Socialist old guard, such as former French prime ministers Lionel Jospin and Laurent Fabius. Royal had campaigned on a pledge to renovate the Socialist Party and was supported by many new-generation politicians who saw themselves as European social democrats in the cast of the British Labour Party or the German Social Democrats. It was unclear...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/22/2008
... Royal, 55, against the Socialist old guard, such as former prime ministers Laurent Fabius and Lionel Jospin and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe, all of whom supported Aubry. The acrimony continued up to the last minute, with aides to Aubry claiming victory well before half the votes were counted. Royal supporters then accused their opponents of trying to influence the vote in France's...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
... and chanting: "Fra-ter-ni-té!"Sylviane Agacinski, wife of former socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin, cuttingly suggested: "It would be better for everyone if [Royal] made a career in show business."Royal's November 4th success coincided with a story that gossip magazines and foreign newspapers love, but "responsible" French media ignore. A year and a half after she and outgoing...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... the Socialists into disarray, with many of the party's old guard, such as former prime minister Lionel Jospin, harshly criticizing the campaign she ran and her attempt to forge an alliance with centrist Francois Bayrou. Royal said Wednesday that as party head she would renew the call to the centrists for the 2012 presidential election. Shortly after her electoral defeat, Royal announced...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
... the Socialists into disarray, with many of the party's old guard, such as former prime minister Lionel Jospin, harshly criticizing the campaign she ran and her attempt to forge an alliance with centrist Francois Bayrou. Shortly after the electoral defeat, Royal announced that she and Hollande, the father of her four children, were separating. It is widely believed that Hollande, like...
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
... by former United Nations’ Secretary General Kofi Anan and including former French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin were doing a bit of their own America-bashing in Tehran while keeping silent about the sufferings of the Iranian people. Anan has been especially eloquent in endorsing the fantasies of his Khomeinist hosts by blaming America for whatever has gone wrong or may go wrong under...
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Eurozone Watch (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
... were held in the 1980s and 1990s and which, in France, got revived by the Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin in the 2002 Presidential elections. While Nicolas Sarkozy himself was rather silent on the issue while acting as French Finance Minister under Jacques Chirac, he picked up this idea during his electoral campaign 2007 (just like Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal) linking his...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... have all come to the defence of the man who was France's finance minister from 1997 to 1999 in Lionel Jospin's centre-left government. Last year's defeated presidential candidate Segolene Royal warned France's "reputation for seriousness and competence" could be ruined if the inquiry found him guilty of wrongdoing. Sources close to the IMF chief said his work had not been affected...
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News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... have all come to the defence of the man who was France's finance minister from 1997 to 1999 in Lionel Jospin's centre-left government. Last year's defeated presidential candidate Segolene Royal warned France's "reputation for seriousness and competence" could be ruined if the inquiry found him guilty of wrongdoing. Sources close to the IMF chief said his work had not been affected...
