En la piel de Jacques Chirac realiza un retrato satírico del político francés y muestra algunas de las múltiples caras de su personalidad a través de una cuidadosa selección de imágenes de archivo, comentadas en primera persona por un falso Jacques Chirac al que pone voz, en español, el actor Ángel Soler, de Las noticias [...]
Monsieur Jacques Chirac ,the former French president and our dear Franco-Friend threatened that he won’t attend the independence day parade if Bashar Al Assad attends. The reason because Bashar is freaking dictator who is disturbing Lebanon not because he is a dictator and a son of a dictator who caused suffering and still are causing it to millions of Syrians. With my all respect Chirac is t
Though the US media, it seems, would rather you not know. Here's the story from The Scotsman (Hat tip: Media Lies):LONG-STANDING rumours that the former French president Jacques Chirac holds a secret multi-million-euro bank account in Japan appear to have been confirmed by files seized from the home of a senior spy.Papers seized by two investigating magistrates from General Philippe Rondot, a former head of the DGSE, France's intelligence service, show Mr Chirac opened an account in the mid-1990s at Tokyo Sowa Bank, credited with the equivalent of £30 million. It is not known where the money came from, nor whether it is connected to various kick-back scandals to which Mr Chirac's name has been linked over the past decade.Last year, Mr Chirac "categorically denied" having a bank account in Japan.The seized documents have been described by the magistrates as "explosive" and are believed to contain copies of the former president's bank statements.A magistrate close to the investigati
La lucha contra el cambio climático es 'una de las urgencias absolutas de nuestro tiempo', subrayó el presidente francés, Jacques Chirac, tras mostrar sus 'preocupación' por las conclusiones de un informe de expertos de la ONU.
Titulado 'Efectos, adaptación y vulnerabilidad', el documento señala que la posible subida de la temperatura mundial en 2 grados centígrados durante el próximo siglo
Chirac has presided over a range of fairly high profile controversies since beginning with his authorisation of the nuclear tests in the Pacific just after his election in 1995. Just two years later he tried to manipulate the electoral process by dissolving the parliament and forcing an election at an opportune time for his own party though, such was the opposition to this action, he ended up weakening his powerbase.
Unexpectedly facing Le Pen in the second round of elections in 2002, he naturally had a landslide victory. The defeat of the European constitution in 2005 was quite a blow both to him and other nations in Europe. As with the nuclear tests in 1995, he typically followed solely the interests of France in opposing the war with Iraq. Also seemingly typical of French politicians, he withdrew the proposed First Employment Contract (Contrat Première Embauche or CPE) in the face of widespread student protests against this move to make it easier to both hire and fire young people.
Jacques Chirac has decided to retire after two terms in office:PARIS (AP) - Jacques Chirac, admired and scorned during 12 years as president of France, leaves a legacy as mixed and ambiguous as the man himself.As widely expected, the French leader announced Sunday that he will not seek a third term in presidential elections in six weeks. In a televised address, Chirac said he would find new ways to serve his country after leaving office: "Serving France, and serving peace, is what I have committed my whole life to."Wrong: he did not serve France. Right: he did serve peace. Orwellian peace at that.Though he did not say as much, the announcement was an implicit acknowledgment that low popularity, age - he is 74 - and Nicolas Sarkozy, his conservative colleague-cum-rival as hugely ambitious as Chirac once was, have finally overtaken him.Most on the French right Chirac once dominated and in the party founded for his re-election in 2002 have swung behind Sarkozy before the April-May two-rou
Tradicionalmente España y Francia se han mirado siempre de frente, con recelo; no hablo de los ciudadanos de a pie, sino de los gobernantes de ambos Estados. Y es que en España siempre hemos tenido la certeza de que 'algo' le pasa a Francia con nosotros... El caso de Chirac es de manual. Resulta que el viejo mandatario a punto de retirarse ha concedido una curiosa entrevista que tampoco ha dejado indiferente a ningún galo. El que fuera Alcalde de Paris afirma que los españoles 'destruyeron América', y revela que siendo Alcalde en 1992, el Rey Juan Carlos le preguntó por qué Paris no había participado en los actos conmemorativos del Quinto Centenario, a lo que el francés le respondió: "En mi opinión no es un gran momento de la historia, no admiro a esas hordas que llegaron para destruir América". En fin, hablamos de una época, el siglo XV y XVI caracterizada por el escaso respeto a los Derechos Humanos y a los derechos de los pueblos, pero conviene recordar que no solo
The New York Times (I saw it on LGF) has Jack Chirac saying:
PARIS, Jan. 31 — President Jacques Chirac said this week that if Iran had one or two nuclear weapons, it would not pose a big danger, and that if Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon against a country like Israel, it would lead to the immediate destruction of Tehran.
The remarks, made in an interview on Monday with The New York Times, The International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, a weekly magazine, were vastly different from stated French policy and what Mr. Chirac has often said.
On Tuesday, Mr. Chirac summoned the same journalists back to Élysée Palace to retract many of his remarks. Mr. Chirac said repeatedly during the second interview that he had spoken casually and quickly the day before because he believed he had been talking about Iran off the record.
“I should rather have paid attention to what I was saying and understood that perhaps I was on the record,”
It makes sense, in a way, that this vile old bag would stubbornly try to keep Sarkozy from becoming the next president, one more reason why Sarkozy decidedly is the best candidate to support. From Expatica (via Sign of the Times). here's an AFP report that's actually hostile to Sarkozy and favorable to the Socialists, though it does have something to think about:PARIS, Oct 15, 2006 (AFP) - French President Jacques Chirac is carrying out a behind-the-scenes plot to stop his ambitious interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, succeeding him in elections next year, media reports said on Sunday.The plan is to destablise Sarkozy, whom Chirac sees as too arrogant, too pro-American and too insolent, ahead of the polls due to take place in April 2007, newspapers including Le Journal du Dimanche and the newsmagazine Marianne claimed.Sarkozy is also pretty pro-Israel, but for a weasel like Chirac, that's a bad thing, in contrast to us, for whom that's a good thing. I wouldn't be surprised if what
President Bush In BrusselsMr. Bush is hoping to put behind America and its allies lingering ill-will over the war in Iraq, and recruit much-needed help in bringing peace and democracy to that country, reports CBS News Senior White House Correspondent Bill Plante.Brussels home of the European Union and NATO is girding for two days of protest aimed at denying European cooperation with the United States.Deep differences remain on other issues, from the Mideast, to the environment, to Europe's plans to resume arms sales to China.The deepest division is over how to deal with Iran. The United States has been highly critical of European negotiations to curb the Iranian nuclear program. Washington wants to take the issue to the United Nations. *Bush In Europe To Mend FencesOne Year Ago*U.S./EU: Bush's Visit To Europe -- A Sincere Healing Of Wounds Or Just Empty Rhetoric?... quietly buried in the back pages last week was news that the Walker-Bush tradition of war profiteering carries on. A sm
Words from Mr Chirac at the Global Ecological Governance Conference:"Soon will come a day when climate change escapes all control. We are on the verge of the irreversible.""Faced with this emergency, the time is not for half measures. The time is for a revolution - a revolution of consciousness, a revolution of the economy. A revolution of political action.""Our international political system is inadequate for dealing with the vital challenge of the 21st century - the question of the environment.""This UNEA will carry the environmental conscience of the world. With a strong political mandate... it will give greater strength, greater coherence to our common action.""We are, and rightly so, proud of our intelligence and our technical achievements. But in the space of a few centuries we have burned resources accumulated over millions of years.""We are destroying eco-systems that sheltered a biodiversity lost for ever, depriving ourselves of vital keys for the future. We know all this: so
