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...“She’s the most high-profile commission president since Jacques Delors,” said Hix, in reference to the Frenchman who built the single market and initiated EU social policies in the 1980s....
...As France’s election campaign cranks into its final weeks, presidential hopeful Valérie Pécresse has a new catchphrase....
...French presidential contender Valérie Pécresse has said people will have to work harder and the government spend less if she wins the April election and deprives Emmanuel Macron of a second term....
...Valérie Pécresse, who heads the Ile-de-France region around Paris, has been chosen as the candidate of the conservative Les Républicains party in next year’s French presidential election....
...When she describes the previous primary battle five years ago among France’s centre-right politicians, Valérie Pécresse recalls the proverb used by one of those in the losing camp: “If two dogs are fighting...
...Presidential candidate Valérie Pécresse began a live interview with one of France’s most popular television hosts by going on the offensive, declaring she nearly cancelled the appearance because of sexual...
...Faced with two far-right rivals eating into her electorate, Valérie Pécresse, the newly appointed candidate hoping to lead France’s conservative Les Républicains to a presidential victory next year, has...
...In the final round of the French presidential election 20 years ago, Jean-Marie Le Pen of the far-right Front National was trounced 82 per cent to 18 by the centre-right incumbent Jacques Chirac as voters...
...Says Steele: “As the French fashion designer Jacques Fath said in 1954, ‘Fashion is an art. Art is creative, and men are the creators.’...
...As in 2002, when the centre-right Jacques Chirac beat Jean-Marie Le Pen, and in 2017 when Macron beat Marine Le Pen, voters are supposed to reject the extremist by choosing the conventional “republican”...
...asked Jean-Jacques Urvoas, a former justice minister, in a column in Le Monde last week....
...Valérie Pécresse, who represents the prosperous Île-de-France region around Paris, once seemed a plausible rival to Macron....
...“I want to say very clearly that if these accusations are true they’re serious and must be condemned,” she said to veteran presenter Jean-Jacques Bourdin....
..., the main presidential parties of the moderate right and left, the Republicans and the Socialists, who between them furnished the Fifth Republic with most of its presidents, are dead; their candidates Valérie...
...Macron, meanwhile, is on the campaign trail already and unlikely to abandon his bid to be the first French president re-elected since Jacques Chirac in 2002....
...The late Jacques Chirac was handed a suspended jail sentence in 2011 for misusing public funds by hiring fictitious employees during his earlier stint as Paris mayor....
...LR is the latest incarnation of France’s once-powerful republican right — when presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy were in power it was known respectively as Rassemblement pour la République (RPR...
...The paper, co-written by think-tanks Europe Jacques Delors (Brussels) and the Jacques Delors Institute (Paris) and published on Thursday, says a European green recovery plan could both create jobs and enhance...
...But he was mocked for his colourful private life when it was revealed that he was having an affair with actor Julie Gayet while living at the Elysée Palace with his partner, Valérie Trierweiler....
...François Baroin, the 51-year-old mayor of Troyes who is a former economy minister under Mr Sarkozy and one-time protégé of Jacques Chirac, is seen as a possible choice....
...But the wines made by the Denis Dubourdieu crack team — which includes wine academics Valérie Lavigne and Christophe Olivier, and his two oenologist sons Fabrice and Jean-Jacques — could not be accused of...
...The hall has been acquired by the Valérie Bach Gallery, and it will be used for exhibitions of secondary-market material....
...Valérie Tissot insisted, “This is the Jura. This is what we do — we eat.”...
...Mr Hollande shares the Elysée Palace with his partner Valérie Trierweiler, a journalist on Paris Match magazine, who acts as France’s first lady although the two are not married....
...For years, Bernadette Chirac, wife of Jacques Chirac, a former French president, and Danielle Mitterrand, wife of François Mitterrand, another former French president, attended Yves Saint Laurent’s fashion...
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