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...With Bertrand de Billy in the pit, the orchestral playing was fine through the first half of the performance, but not at the level of expressive suppleness of Pérez, whose every phrase had multiple meaning...
...Yesterday was Tilted by Christine and the Queens; my daughter had been singing it, and the catchy chorus going “I’m actually good!” is excellent for morale....
...; his grandfather Serge Heftler-Louiche founded Parfums Christian Dior, while his mother Marie-Christine Heftler-Louiche presided over that department as art director....
...The watch coincided with the launch of Jacob & Co’s first Chinese outlet, in Beijing, with chief executive Bertrand Savary saying it chose the zodiac motif because of its universal appeal....
...Bertrand: We don’t believe in ready-made recipes....
...Mr Ghosn was called in by Christine Lagarde, finance minister, and Eric Besson, industry minister, for consultation on Thursday following a turbulent week at Renault in which it was forced to issue an apology...
...People’s Party Group in the European Parliament Maria Cattaui (Greece/Switzerland), Former Secretary of International Chamber of Commerce Daniel Cohn-Bendit (Germany), Member of the European Parliament Bertrand...
...Christine Lagarde, finance minister, called for a rapid conclusion to the police inquiry. “If the suspicions were unfounded, justice must be done, confidence restored and reparation paid,” she said....
...President and CEO, Asda Stores Keith Clarke, CEO, WS Atkins Reinhard Clemens, Member of the Board of Management, Deutsche Telekom, and CEO, T-Systems International Vittorio Colao, CEO, Vodafone Bertrand...
...France will bring its burgeoning budget deficit below 3 per cent of gross domestic product by 2013, a year earlier than previously expected, Christine Lagarde, finance minister, said in Berlin on Monday....
...A German finance ministry spokesman on Tuesday refused to comment directly on Mr Sarkozy’s speech but said that eurozone finance ministers, including Christine Lagarde, the French minister, “made it very...
...Christine Scheel, a Green party MP and finance expert, told the FT: “Such a golden handshake is indefensible in the current economic context. I have zero understanding for this....
...Additional reporting by Chris Bryant in Berlin and Bertrand Benoit in Saarbrücken...
...Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, described the Lehman decision as a “real error”, adding that if you “push over a domino, the rest risk falling down”....
...Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said French banks should use the funds to raise their tier one capital ratios to 9 per cent, so that they are on “a level playing field” with British banks....
...It comprises bankers, stock exchange heads, industry representatives, and politicians including Bertrand Delanoe, Socialist Paris mayor....
...Reporting by John Willman in London, Bertrand Benoit in Berlin, Ben Hall in Paris, Krishna Guha in Washington and James Wilson in Frankfurt...
...Daniel Bouton, chairman of Société Générale, made an unusual public plea when introducing the evening’s speaker: Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister....
...Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, announced late on Friday she had asked Bertrand Schneiter, France’s inspector general of finances, to investigate the ministry’s behaviour in relation to EADS...
...However, French finance minister Christine Lagarde said Mr Enders had not been promised Mr Gallois’ job....
...Writing in the Financial Times this week, Christine Lagarde, France’s minister of economy, finance and employment, said: “Transparency with regard to the actual packaging process of securitisation should...
...Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, Health, youth sports Christine Boutin, Housing, urban planning...
...Christine Lagarde, former foreign trade boss, will become agriculture minister, while Chirac supporter and former defence minister Michèle Alliot-Marie was rewarded with the interior ministry....
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