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Defectors Without The Cheery U.S. Spin.(World Affairs)(Brief article)
Byline: Tracy McNicoll
Paging all turncoats: Nicolas Sarkozy is reshuffling his cabinet again. Over the past two years, the conservative French president has offered high-profile jobs to leading Socialists and other prominent lefties, and five of them now hold seats in his cabinet, including Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and Minister of Immigration Eric Besson. While Sarko's base resents the lost patronage opportunities for fellow conservatives, he seems focused on the upside of what he calls his "ouverture" ("opening") strategy: to discredit and divide the opposition. Rumors are flying about who will defect ...
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- Newspaper article from: European Report March 6, 2004 700+ words
...acceptable compromise but I am not one of them", explains Francois Bayrou. In his view "we need a big pro-European party, a democratic...representation to that granted to the British Conservatives. But Francois Bayrou is still convinced that the doubting Thomases can be won...
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- Newspaper article from: European Report March 9, 2007 700+ words
Francois Bayrou, the man currently reflected in the opinion polls as being hard on the heels of the favourites in the French presidential race...
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...the old guard of politicians. As the television anchormen struggle to explain the news, the awesome realisation dawns on Francois Bayrou: he has been elected president of the French Republic. Or is the dream a foolish fantasy? That Mr Bayrou, leader of...
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- Newspaper article from: European Report February 14, 2007 700+ words
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek International March 26, 2007 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: European Report December 8, 2008 700+ words
Francois Bayrou and Francesco Rutelli described to the press, on 5 December in Brussels, in connection with the third congress of the European...
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- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune Steven Erlanger September 25, 2009 700+ words
...the image of justice that the president gives France?" Francois Bayrou, leader of the centrist Democratic Movement, said that...considerable hatreds." Mr. Sarkozy's minister for immigration, Eric Besson, supported his president, saying that it was extraordinary...
- EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT : ITALIAN-STYLE TACTICS FOR A CENTRE-LEFT RAPPROCHEMENT.
- Newspaper article from: European Report April 25, 2007 700+ words
...backers of their centrist ex-rival, Francois Bayrou (UDF), in order to secure first...Francesco Rutelli, with his friend Francois Bayrou. A NEW EUROPEAN PARTY? Indeed...in the legislative elections." If Francois Bayrou teams up with the French right or...
Source: HighBeam Research, Defectors Without The Cheery U.S. Spin.(World Affairs)(Brief article)