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Jacques Chirac

Jacques René Chirac is a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007. He previously served as Prime Minister of France from 1974 to 1976 and from 1986 to 1988 (making him the only person to hold the position of Prime Minister twice under the Fifth Republic), and as Mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995.
After completing his studies of the DEA's degree at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and the École nationale d'administration (ENA), Chirac began his career as a high-level civil servant, and soon entered politics. He subsequently occupied various senior positions, including Minister of Agriculture, Minister of the Interior, Prime Minister, Mayor of Paris, and finally President of the French Republic.
In the 1970s he advocated a French welfare model, in the 1980s he was briefly supportive of liberal economics, and in the 1990s and 2000s he embraced a soft-left, statist, instinctively anti-capitalist politics. In foreign policy, he was known for anti-Americanism and allying with leaders such as Vladimir Putin. He was elected in 1995 after campaigning on a platform of healing the "social rift" (fracture sociale). After less statist policy when he was Prime minister (1986–1988), he changed his method. Then, his economic policies, based on ... » Read more on Wikipedia.org

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 Budget Curtails French Spending, Retains Programs - Aviation Week
2013-05-07
... the Socialist government's spending priorities emphasize maintaining the nation's sea- and air-launched nuclear deterrent and supporting France's reintegration into the NATO unified command—a process begun under then-President Jacques Chirac and ...
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    		 Thousands protest against 'Mr Weak' François Hollande
    2013-05-05
    ... and faces protests over pension reform. Mr Hollande is convinced his historically low popularity is simply linked to France's record unemployment. As his predecessor Jacques Chirac put it: "You must wait for the end of the country fair to count the ...
    (Telegraph.co.uk)
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      		 President Hollande: what a difference a year makes
      2013-05-05
      The presidencies of Jacques Chirac were characterised by stagnation. Chirac will go down in history for rightly opposing the US-led invasion of Iraq, but achieved little on the home front. Similarly, Hollande has gained plaudits for intervening swiftly ...
      (FRANCE 24 (blog))
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        		 A tandem in trouble
        2013-05-04
        Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac spent half a year in the late 1990s barely talking. Mrs Merkel had problems with Mr Sarkozy, even though both are from the centre-right; the two fell out badly over his proposed “Mediterranean Union” that at first ...
        (The Economist)
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          		 Hollande's 'annus horribilis': ratings at record low after first year in office
          2013-05-03
          “Jacques Chirac took 10 years to reach such depths of unpopularity,” notes Perrineau. “François Hollande did it in one year.” A lack of government experience is one possible explanation. Neither Hollande nor Ayrault had served as a government minister.
          (Irish Times)
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            		 France mulls US-style 'class action' law suits
            2013-05-02
            During their tenures, former Presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy both unsuccessfully attempted to establish class action lawsuits, which allow groups of individuals to collectively sue a defendant or group of defendants, without separately ...
            (The Local.fr)
            1. Concrete initiatives mark a new step in the introduction of class actions in ...
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            		 France and Germany A tandem in trouble
            2013-05-02
            Gerhard Schröder and Jacques Chirac spent half a year in the late 1990s barely talking. Mrs Merkel had problems with Mr Sarkozy, even though both are from the centre-right; the two fell out badly over his proposed “Mediterranean Union” that at first ...
            (The Economist)
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              		 Jacques-chirac.fr : Saurez-vous retrouver Chirac? - Huffington Post
              2013-05-02
              INTERNET - Pour trouver Jacques Chirac depuis son départ de l'Élysée en 2007, il faut chercher du côté du quai Voltaire dans le 7e arrondissement de Paris ou à Sarran en Corrèze. Pour le chercher (et le trouver) sur le web, il faut se diriger sur ...
              (Le Huffington Post)
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              		 France to approve gay marriage amid angry protests
              2013-04-23
              Former president Jacques Chirac shelved an unpopular employment law in 2006 in the face of public hostility. But all the signs are that Hollande will stick to his guns on the issue, despite a popularity slump that has left him with one of the lowest ...
              (Yahoo!7 News)
              1. France to become 14th country to legalise same-sex marriage
              2. French MPs defy rallies to approve gay marriage - Gulf times
              3. France approves gay marriage
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