Chirac aims for new European defence identityWHENEVER he is asked about problems, President Chirac begins by saying he is optimisticFri Apr 04 1997 - 01:00
Chirac tackles "noble" subject of business with reluctant EuropeansPRESIDENT Jacques Chirac began his first state visit to the Czech Republic yesterday, completing a tour of central European capitals…Thu Apr 03 1997 - 01:00
A house that is divided unto itselfSCHIZOPHRENIC is the best word to describe it, historian Leon Strauss told me in his book-lined study in Strasbourg's German …Wed Apr 02 1997 - 01:00
Bulldog spirit seizes on power of a siege mentalityIT WAS here, in the City of Europe, that the French National Front (FN) leader, Mr Jean Marie Le Pen, unleashed his fiercest …Tue Apr 01 1997 - 01:00
Triumphal Le Pen proposes European alliance of right"FRANCE'S extreme right wing National Front (FN) celebrated the re election of its president and founder, Mr Jean Marie Le Pen…Mon Mar 31 1997 - 01:00
Fromage and French fries lose appeal as Paris prefers restaurant romanceWHEN the American fast food giant McDonald's studied French national taste buds, they didn't find tiny papillae wearing berets…Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Left demonstrates that Le Pen's show is not only one in townWHEN the people of Strasbourg woke up yesterday morning, a huge black flag was waving from the steeple of their cathedralSat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
In the blink of an eye...JEAN-Dominique Bauby had everything a man could want, and he was only 43Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Irishman condemns "lucky dip" French justice systemWHEN French police arrested Stephen King at his Brittany home in October 1992, they told the Irishman from Tyrone that they did…Sat Mar 29 1997 - 00:00
Megret presents National Front as principled DavidIF THERE is violence at Strasbourg this Easter weekend, it won't be the fault of Mr Bruno MegretWed Mar 26 1997 - 00:00
Hideous desecration of Jewish corpse linked to racist views of National FrontFELIX GERMON had been three weeks in the grave when neo Nazi skinheads broke into the Jewish cemetery in the southern French …Fri Mar 21 1997 - 00:00
"Monsieur Afrique", France's neo colonial architect, diesJACQUES FOCCART, the architect of France's African policy for nearly four decades, died in Paris yesterday morning at the age…Thu Mar 20 1997 - 00:00
Government may have ordered journalists' murders, says reportTHE Algerian government has persistently harassed and muzzled the media and is even suspected of ordering the murder of some …Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
5m infected by hepatitis C - studyAS MANY as five million Europeans have been infected by the hepatitis C virus in a massive epidemic, a study just completed by…Wed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
Bishop's invisible diocese of the poor, the persecuted and the downtroddenIN other times, Monsignor Jacques Gaillot might have been burned as a hereticWed Mar 19 1997 - 00:00
French celebrate jour de feteST PATRICK, the Disney Village Celtic Festival press handout informed us, "was filled with human goodwill and mischievous humour…Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00
"Islamicisation" of Egypt continues unabated as injustices still flourishVIOLENCE by Muslim extremists might have diminished in Egypt, but the "Islamicisation" of Egyptian society continues unabated…Tue Mar 18 1997 - 00:00
Why once similar conflicts in Egypt and Algeria now differFOR half a century Egypt and Algeria, the two giants of North Africa, have shared similar fatesMon Mar 17 1997 - 00:00
The world distrusts France on AfricaFRANCE'S tattered African policy suffered another defeat this week when President Jacques Chirac's proposal for a military/humanitarian…Fri Mar 14 1997 - 00:00
The woman who brought the sun outWHEN the President, Mrs Robinson, visited France in May 1996 for Imaginaire Irlandais, the six month festival of contemporary…Thu Mar 13 1997 - 00:00
Bereaved fight for French justiceTHERE is no grief so terrible as the loss of a childTue Mar 04 1997 - 00:00
Deported immigrants injure 22 gendarmes in riotDEPORTING illegal immigrants is turning out to be an expensive and violent business for the French governmentMon Mar 03 1997 - 00:00
Paris revives old NATO tensions with USPRESIDENT Charles de Gaulle shocked the world when he announced 31 years ago that France was withdrawing from NATO's integrated…Fri Feb 28 1997 - 00:00
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
