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Wednesday, April 30, 2003
posted by gbarto at 3:52 AM:
French news headlines:Le Monde: Israel: Suicide Bombing at Tel-Aviv. 3 dead, 55 wounded, at a café-bar near the US embassy not long after the installation of a new Palestinian prime minister who is already being undermined.
Le Figaro: Sarkozy: "My immigration law". The Interior Minister's revisions have been approved by the Council of Ministers. They will make it harder to get into France and more bothersome to stay.
Libé: Flip at the Fac [university]: only one student in two believes his college education will get him a job.
Ouest-France: A Worksite in disorder. Ouest-France's lead editorial notes that joint defense planning between France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg is rife with problems, both in terms of its antagonizing the US, UK, Italy, Spain and the Eastern European nations soon to join the EU, and in terms of how to organize a force when only France and the UK, alone in Europe, have demonstrated a willingness to build up and maintain serious armed forces. Before those who laugh at French surrender brigades comment, it is worth noting that France has sent out a lot of Blue Helmets for the UN and has committed troops elsewhere. Questions of efficacy, utility, etc. may be raised, but France has demonstrated that it will maintain a force, whatever one thinks of that force, which makes it the military leader of the partnership under discussion. The editor at Ouest-France is not impressed with the new plans, hence the metaphor about a construction site not ready to build anything on; neither is Tony Blair. So, whither France? Only Chirac knows. If, in fact, he has any idea.
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