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...Benoît Gouez, 48, was appointed chef de cave (cellar master) of the champagne house Moët & Chandon in 2005. What was your childhood or earliest ambition?...
...Benoît Hamon, the Socialist candidate, secured just 6.3 per cent in the first round of the French presidential contest....
...Mr Fillon is an open admirer of Margaret Thatcher and has, by French standards, a radical plan to cut back the size of the state....
...Benoît Hamon, for the socialists, has ideas for addressing the “myth of infinite economic growth”....
...defeated in the primary runoff by Mr Fillon, the stern-looking former prime minister under Mr Sarkozy, who had been given little chance of winning the nomination with a free-market platform inspired by Margaret...
...A series of unforeseen events opened up space in the political centre ground: Mr Fillon, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher, won the Republican primary against longtime favourite Alain Juppé; a month later,...
...Mr Fillon, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher who is keen to administer pro-business shock therapy to France, has promised €100bn in cost savings and to slash 500,000 civil service jobs over five years....
...The Socialist primary delivered its own upset a few weeks later: Prime minister Manuel Valls, a pro-business social-democrat and experienced politician, was defeated by Benoît Hamon, a leftwinger relatively...
...Latest polls show that Mr Fillon, a rightwing admirer of Margaret Thatcher who was set to be the unassailable frontrunner to win both rounds of the election in April and May, would be knocked out in the...
...Socialist nominee Benoît Hamon has not committed to spending cuts, focusing instead on the creation of a universal basic income....
..., legal meaning (see our explainer here) but this hasn’t prevented British politicians reaching for a sabre to rattle: The tensions were laid bare when Michael Howard, former Tory leader, recalled how Margaret...
.... £12.95 Flint Wines Moss Wood Semillon 2009 Margaret River Delicate on the nose and not ridiculously priced. Sweet start but with good fruity core, too....
...Additional reporting by Bertrand Benoit...
...Margaret Beckett, foreign secretary, argued that behind the scenes attitudes at senior levels of the US government were changing....
...British prime ministers have still clashed with Washington – in the 1960s, Harold Wilson refused to send troops to Vietnam and Margaret Thatcher criticised the 1983 US invasion of Grenada....
...A compromise proposal by Mr Juncker to freeze the rebate could allow Mr Blair to claim he had preserved the “British cheque” won by Margaret Thatcher in 1984....
...Britain stuck defiantly to its line that the refund, negotiated by Margaret Thatcher in 1984, was "fully justified"....
...Bertrand Benoit, Berlin....
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