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BusinessWeek August 30, 2004 |
The Sarkozy Express: Straight At Chirac The French Finance Minister is a big favorite to become head of President Jacques Chirac's center-right Union for a Popular Movement later this year and has made clear he would use the post as a springboard to run for President in 2007. Can he be stopped? |
BusinessWeek August 2, 2004 John Rossant |
France: Chirac's Protege Is No Poodle 71-year-old President Jacques Chirac is facing an unprecedented challenge from his onetime protege, Nicolas Sarkozy. |
InternetNews July 9, 2004 Jim Wagner |
Mandrakesoft Replaces NT in France Linux is in and an aging version of Microsoft's enterprise Windows operating system is out after the French Ministry of Equipment decided to replace 1,500 Windows NT servers with Mandrakelinux Corporate servers |
The Motley Fool June 22, 2004 Tim Beyers |
Two of Hearts Broken Former Vivendi CEO Jean-Marie Messier spends the night in a French jail. Messier is notorious for trying to transform a staid, 150-year-old French water utility into a global media giant. |
BusinessWeek June 21, 2004 Carol Matlack |
Time To Tame This Electrical Storm Workers may be up in arms, but France should privatize its giant utility Electricite de France. |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Rossant & Bonnet |
France's Crackdown On Islamic Radicals As French Foreign Minister, Dominique de Villepin forcefully led the fierce diplomatic opposition to U.S. and British plans to attack Saddam Hussein. Now, as his country's Interior Minister, Villepin is applying the same bold style to countering Islamic radicalism at home. |
BusinessWeek June 7, 2004 Ewing & Matlack |
The Lazy Men of Europe No More? Longer working hours will help make Germany and France more competitive with lower-wage countries. |
BusinessWeek May 31, 2004 |
A New Twist In The Alstom Rescue France's plan to rescue the engineering group is straining relations with Germany. |
Geotimes May 2004 Megan Sever |
French Science Crisis On March 9, more than 2,000 French science research laboratory directors and team leaders tendered their resignations of administrative and management duties in protest over what they call "draconian cuts" in government scientific spending and research jobs. |
BusinessWeek May 10, 2004 John Rossant |
The Pernicious Rise Of "Core Europe" Germany and France are building a bloc to preserve their political and economic influence. |
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