Jacques Chirac

After years of close ties and preferential deals with Rabat under the presidencies of Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy France under Macron has tilted towards Algeria...

Le Drian who as defence minister for President François Hollande oversaw France's original deployment to Mali in 2013 is succeeded by Catherine Colonna career diplomat and former spokeswoman for President Jacques Chirac...

But Bolloré still faced obstacles chiefly Jacques Dupuydauby an equally well-connected French entrepreneur who had used his connections to the strongly Africa-focused French President Jacques Chirac to secure links to President Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

Initial reform efforts launched in the 1990s later faltered under presidents Jacques Chirac and Nicolas Sarkozy...

The regular outings of 16-year-old Crown Prince Moulay el Hassan bin Mohammed al Alaoui – for example meeting the Macrons at the funeral for French President Jacques Chirac – suggest an accelerated education before ascending to the throne...

Moroccan sources suggest that even if the King is unhappy with Hollande – missing the sort of relationship he had with Jacques Chirac or even Nicolas Sarkozy – there are limits to how far relations will be allowed to decline...

He served as a representative for Corrèze the political fief of former President Jacques Chirac from 1988 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2012...

At the time Juppé had welcomed one genocide leader Rwanda’s then acting Foreign Minister Jérôme Bicamumpaka to the office of President Jacques Chirac...

The BEAC official who told the US diplomat about this also claimed that Bongo père had ordered funds to be sent to France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and Jacques Chirac for their political campaigns...

The chill with Paris that started under Jacques Chirac’s presidency has continued under Nicolas Sarkozy but skilful French diplomacy has averted another flare up...