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Friday, January 24, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:27 AM:
French news round-up:Le Monde: Guess the war's not as big a deal as some might think. The top story of the moment is "Death of Giovanni Agnelli [Johnny Lamb?], head of Fiat." Due to complications from prostate cancer, it says. He was 81.
Le Figaro: Here's the war - "US-Europe: Is there really a fracture." For those who missed, Rumsfeld dismissed "Europe's" concern about Iraq as really being "Old Europe's" concern, implying that the nations further east that support the US are where Europe's future lies. It's true that the new nations are more generally with us, but it's amusing to see that for once France isn't boasting about the longevity of its society. It's tough to judge whether France is old or new. The Fifth Republic hasn't yet been around a half century, but the French have been surrendering at every opportunity since way back at Waterloo, the low point being Prussia's (!) efforts to get the Third Republic started so that there would be a government to surrender to it. Of course, nowadays France is quite lovey-dovey with the descendants of Bismarck. But I digress...
Libé: "Daewoo factor burns." There have been questions about the factory, which has been shut down since the 19th of December after losing money big-time. Its destruction promises to raise more.
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