Chirac, Juppe struggle to contain heat generated by immigration billTHE FRENCH Prime Minister, Mr Alain Juppe, tried to calm things before the parliamentary debate on immigration beganThu Feb 27 1997 - 00:00
France finally wakes up to the `Le Pen-isation of minds'FRENCH papers print acres of newsprint about it. Radio and television report little elseWed Feb 26 1997 - 00:00
Islamist assassination group recruits members from the intellectual milieu it attacksTEN days after the Algerian trade union leader Abdelhak Benhamouda was gunned down in Algiers with two of his bodyguards a little…Sat Feb 22 1997 - 00:00
Risque film poster granted all-clear by Paris tribunalTHE French love a debat d'idees, so this week they watched with rapt attention as Charismatic Christians allied with the extreme…Fri Feb 21 1997 - 00:00
Deng's French connection is recalled amid Chirac praisesDENG Xiaoping was a worker in the Paris Renault automobile factory in the 1920s (and President Jacques Chirac's letters of condolence…Thu Feb 20 1997 - 00:00
French government fails to counteract rise in racismIT was after midnight January 10th when Kamel Saber, a 31 year old French man and the son of Algerian immigrants, started home…Sat Feb 15 1997 - 00:00
A city where it's a cats' and dogs lifeWHEN ambassadors call at the foreign ministry on the Quai d'Orsay, they sit with a long-haired grey and white cat in the waiting…Wed Feb 12 1997 - 00:00
Shrewd shadow candidate of National Front saw failings of left and rightMR BRUNO Megret couldn't wait to take over the Hotel de Ville his wife won for him on SundayTue Feb 11 1997 - 00:00
French National Front wins its fourth mayoral electionTHE RIGHT wing National Front (EN) yesterday won the mayor's office in Vitrolles, the fourth French city to be taken over by …Mon Feb 10 1997 - 00:00
Bitter townships where FN means to impose orderSHE was in enemy territory, Catherine Megret admittedMon Feb 10 1997 - 00:00
Paris salutes Serbian opposition leadersTHE LEADERS of the Serbian opposition coalition Zajedno (Together) met the French Foreign Minister, Mr Herve de Charette, here…Fri Feb 07 1997 - 00:00
Husband of murdered woman files criminal proceedingsTHE husband and parents of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, the French woman murdered in West Cork in December have filed criminal …Thu Feb 06 1997 - 00:00
French influx for jobs in IrelandEVERY year, hundreds of young French men arrive in the Republic looking for something they can no longer find in France: jobs…Wed Feb 05 1997 - 00:00
Juppe calls for pact as looming National Front win spreads alarm in other partiesPOLITICIANS from France's conservative majority and the left wing opposition yesterday reacted with alarm to the success of the…Tue Feb 04 1997 - 00:00
Tapie's game of hide and seek is drawing to a closeBEHIND the heavy wooden gates band cobblestone courtyard of Bernard Tapie's elegant hotel particular in the rue des Saints Peres…Mon Feb 03 1997 - 00:00
Jospin breaks official silence on Algeria despite retaliation fearFOR the past five years, French politicians have observed an awkward - even fearful - silence about the civil war in AlgeriaSat Feb 01 1997 - 00:00
Railway strike is unlikely to stop reformsFRENCH railway traffic was disrupted yesterday as trade unions protested against the government's long overdue reform of the …Fri Jan 31 1997 - 00:00
Anti German sentiments come to the fore in assembly debate on "secret" Chirac-Kohl pactTHE DEBATE in the French National Assembly yesterday was supposed to be about the defence agreement which President Jacques Chirac…Thu Jan 30 1997 - 00:00
Assassination of leading trade unionist blow to regimeONE of President Liamine Zeroual's closest associates, Abdelhak Benhamouda, was gunned down in front of his headquarters building…Wed Jan 29 1997 - 00:00
Barnier carries the EU gospel to France's sceptical Deep SouthSITTING on a hard metal chair on the stage of the Lyce'e Jean Monnet in Montpellier, Michel Barnier (46) could have been a chat…Wed Jan 29 1997 - 00:00
Precarious nature of job security arouses new fearAS any publisher will tell you, books on economics are a hard sellMon Jan 27 1997 - 00:00
Giscard provokes outcry over francIT seemed so simple. Mr Valery Giscard d'Estaing, former President of the Republic and former Finance Minister, had all the answers…Mon Jan 27 1997 - 00:00
Livres des Irlandais?MONSIEUR Maurice Caillet reaches in the glass case and lovingly extracts a small book, bound in red leather and embossed with…Sat Jan 25 1997 - 00:00
Algerians face an uneasy life in FranceAS the train goes further into "the zone" the working class suburbs around Paris more graffiti cover the walls and more vacant…Thu Jan 23 1997 - 00:00
Commission to reform justice system namedPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac announced last night the creation of a commission to reform the French justice system.Tue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
Brutality of latest slaughter by the fundamentalists defies quick analysisIT TOOK time for the true extent of the latest slaughter to be revealedTue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00
Hillary aspires to high moral ground on eve of inaugurationON THE eve of her husband's inauguration, the US First Lady, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton, chose a popular French television programme…Mon Jan 20 1997 - 00:00
Hundreds of unarmed employees occupy bankMR JEROME MEYSSONIER, governor of the Credit Foncier de France (CFF), sat at the long conference table, flanked by six of the…Mon Jan 20 1997 - 00:00
Comic strip explains NI in FranceIN A country where comics are taken as seriously as poetry, it had to happen: a comic book to tell the French in the simplest…Mon Jan 20 1997 - 00:00
Child (7) killed mother who tried to strangle himWHEN seven-year-old Kevin woke up at 8 a.m. on January 13th, his mother Suzanna was sitting next to himFri Jan 17 1997 - 00:00
Magistrate accuses two in CJD poisoning caseA PARIS magistrate yesterday handed down the first two criminal indictments in the contaminated growth hormones scandal, in which…Thu Jan 16 1997 - 00:00
CJD diagnosis was death sentence for Benedicte's short lifeWHEN Francine Delbrel's daughter was born on April 18th, 1972, the French naval officer's wife wept for joyWed Jan 15 1997 - 00:00
Guillotine used in reign of terrorTHE voice down the telephone line from Algiers quivered with fear and fatigueSat Jan 11 1997 - 00:00
A tale of one principalityONCE upon a time a beautiful Irish-American actress named Grace Patricia Kelly fell in love with His Most Serene Highness Prince…Sat Jan 11 1997 - 00:00
Murder victim had been "in love with life"ALTHOUGH friends and family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier, the French woman murdered in west Cork on December 23rd, have so far…Tue Jan 07 1997 - 00:00
Opposition critical of French attacks on Central Africa rebelsFRENCH attacks against rebels in the Central African Republic were harshly criticised by the French opposition yesterday after…Tue Jan 07 1997 - 00:00
Affairs of state aplenty for the century's greatest courtesanPAMELA Churchill Harriman declined to give The Irish Times an interviewSat Dec 21 1996 - 00:00
`Carlos the Jackal' complains of libel in recent bookWHO would believe that "Carlos the Jackal", indicted for four bombings, a shoot-out, a grenade attack on a cafe, and blamed for…Wed Dec 18 1996 - 00:00
Irish trucks stopped by French farmersTWO Irish trucks were stopped briefly at a barricade set up by French calf farmers early yesterday, the Irish Embassy in Paris…Tue Dec 17 1996 - 00:00
Tough work gives way to pints and playIF YOU'D been talking about EMU and the IGC all day, you'd want a pint too.Mon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
Muscled approach to negotiations paid off in the end for French diplomacyTHE French were nearly as pleased with the Dublin summit as the IrishMon Dec 16 1996 - 00:00
Peace and goodwill reign supreme as euro is bornTHE IRISH official ran into the auditorium just as his colleagues were wrapping up their afternoon briefingSat Dec 14 1996 - 00:00
French bring hopes and fears to Dublin meetingMR Michel Barnier brings both a hope and a fear with him to Dublin this morningFri Dec 13 1996 - 00:00
Bruton pledges talks with SFIF the IRA restored its ceasefire, the Government could resume discussions with Sinn Fein immediately, the Taoiseach told The…Wed Dec 11 1996 - 00:00
Bruton ends consultations amid fears that `stability pact' differences could spoil summitTHE TAOISEACH, Mr Bruton, concluded pre-Dublin summit consultations in Paris here yesterday, amid fears that the failure of France…Wed Dec 11 1996 - 00:00
Algeria's east bloc remnant claims to be "God's party"JUST when Algerians thought it was safe to forget the one party system - the mass organisations and central committees, the congresses…Sat Dec 07 1996 - 00:00
Metro is a "legitimate target" because France "helps the Algerian state"NO ONE sees a man on a bicycle, Michael Collins used to say.Fri Dec 06 1996 - 00:00
Algerians believe Islamists were behind bomb attackALGERIA's relations with France are always emotional reaction to the bombing which killed two people in Paris on Tuesday night…Thu Dec 05 1996 - 00:00
For diplomat or chef Algeria is giant prisonNAWAL (27) sat on my right in the dining room of the El Djazair HotelWed Dec 04 1996 - 00:00
Where journalists have a shorter life expectancyA GREETING card is pinned to the wall of the office at El Watan newspaperTue Dec 03 1996 - 00:00
