The problem with you Americans," [Villepin] hectored a visiting U.S. senator in Paris last December, "is that you don't read Machiavelli." His meaning, the senator's aide told me, was crystal clear. Villepin and [Jacques Chirac] had lied to the United States during the Iraq crisis, and if we didn't like it, we should get over it. That's how the "big boys" played politics.
President Bush. It's been a pleasure to have a meaningful, strategic dialog with Jacques Chirac. We talked about a lot of subjects. It's important that France and the United States work closely to keep the peace. We talked about Iran; we talked about Syria; we talked about the Palestinian-Israeli issue; we talked about Darfur; we talked about common problems and how to solve those problems. It was a very constructive and important dialog.
French Pres. Jacques Chirac has taken up the challenge of reestablishing France's position as one of the most powerful Western nations. His more notable actions include his decision to push through with a series of nuclear tests, developing tougher policies on Bosnia and the acknowledgement of France's role in the deportation of Jews during World War II. Chirac also plans to institute more changes which would affect both European security and the fate of the Atlantic Alliance.
One of the piquant political pleasures of France is the contrast it offers between its democratic pretensions and the feudal reality of its republican monarchy. With Jacques Chirac, France's head of state, suffering from a hematoma in the back of his brain, the long, incompetent, and fruitless Chirac era is effectively over and two crown princes--Prime Minister Dominique-Marie-Francois-Rene Galouzeau de Villepin and Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy--are competing for the position.
PARIS In spring 2004 French President Jacques Chirac appeared to be on top of the world. He had vocally and vehemently opposed the invasion of Iraq, aligning himself with the vast majority of French citizens.
PARIS -- President Jacques Chirac of France named his longtime protege Dominique de Villepin as prime minister on Tuesday in an effort to restore confidence in the French government after the country's decisive rejection of a constitution for Europe. In a televised address on Tuesday evening, Chirac announced the dismissal of Jean-Pierre Raffarin as prime minister and confessed that the rejection of the referendum on the European Union Constitution on Sunday had triggered a period of "difficulties and uncertainties" that required the French to "rally together around the national interest.
French President Jacques Chirac details changes to his country's strategic policy relative to the circumstances for use of nuclear weapons during a Jan. 19 speech at the nuclear headquarters of the French Strategic Air and Maritime Forces. Andreas Schockenhoff, defense and foreign policy expert for the co-governing Christian Democratic Party, told Reuters Jan. 20 that [w]e have to convince these countries [like Iran] that their situation isn't going to get any better if they possess nuclear weapons. Gert Weisskirchen, foreign policy spokesperson for the Social Democrats, the other half of the governing coalition, told Spiegel Online the same day that he saw Chirac's speech "as a unilateral declaration on the part of the French president, and it's something he ought to have discussed w...
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