Vol 49 No 18 |
- RWANDA
- FRANCE
Foreign Ministry spokesman Romain Nadal spoke of ‘unacceptable accusations’ and former Foreign Minister Alain Juppé called them a ‘falsification’...
Vol 48 No 5 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
During the premiership of Alain Juppé (1995-7) France's Cooperation Ministry was brought definitively under the political control of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (as Britain was separating its International Development Department from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office)...
Vol 47 No 24 |
- RWANDA
- FRANCE
In 1994 Villepin headed the office of the then Minister of Foreign Affairs Alain Juppé and was in charge of the Rwanda dossier during the genocide...
Vol 46 No 12 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Another reshuffle casualty was Cooperation Minister Xavier Darcos paying the price for his association with ex-Premier Alain Juppé who started to reform Africa policy in the early 1990s (when De Villepin was director of his office)...
Vol 45 No 7 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The 53-year-old from Savoie was a Minister for European Affairs under Premier Alain Juppé and co-chaired the organising committee for the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics where he will not have met many Africans...
Vol 43 No 24 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
De Villepin is a Chirac loyalist who after a diplomatic career spent seven years as Secretary General of the Presidency and a key presidential strategist beside Jérôme Monod and Alain Juppé...
Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin hitherto Chirac's loyal Secretary General of the Presidency will have sole control of African affairs and of Francophone cultural issues; he is likely to continue the 'banalisation' of Africa begun by Alain Juppé as Foreign Minister when the urbane De Villepin was head of his office...
Vol 42 No 15 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Tough new accounting rules introduced by Prime Minister Alain Juppé (1995-97) and French judges' new-found self-confidence may have ended all that...
Vol 42 No 10 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Started by the centre-right government of Alain Juppé (1995-97) and followed up by Lionel Jospin's socialists Recamp is tied to French ideas about a European defence identity - often seen in Washington and London as a device for weakening US leadership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation...
Alain Juppé once Prime Minister of France now Mayor of Bordeaux leads a big delegation...