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Monday, April 28, 2003
posted by gbarto at 2:02 AM:
French news headlines:Libération: SOS PS. That PS is the Socialist Party, which still has not recovered from last year's electoral drubbing. Will the party reunite behind François Hollande? Will anti-Hollande forces carry the day? Will we be forced to continue hearing names like Fabius and Strauss-Kahn? Nobody's certain. And in a world where Jean-Marie Le Pen, and not Lionel Jospin, proved to be the leading opponent of Jacques Chirac, who can blame them for uncertainty?
Le Monde: Argentina: Menem-Kirchner duel in second round. It's the first time in history that Argentinian presidential elections have gone to the second round, with former president Carlos Menem the top vote getter in the first round. Will the liberal (read "economic conservative" in Eurospeak) Menem get another shot? Could he possibly do any more damage than the current president?
Le Figaro: Family Policy: What Raffarin has in store. The prime minister is set to announce an extra billion Euros for children. Will he be hailed for the new money or criticized for how short it falls of what his campaign implied they'd come up with?
To answer that in part, here's Ouest-France: A new sort of aid announced at tomorrow's Family Conference - A unique allowance for children to be born. Basically, there's a lump sum before birth and a small monthly allowance thereafter. It will be given to most, though not all, mothers, but the criteria for receiving it have not yet been released.
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