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14 Jul 2004, 5:42 am
French President Jacques Chirac announced Wednesday that French voters will decide whether to ratify the EU constitution in a referendum to take place next year, saying that "the French are directly concerned, and therefore will be directly consulted. [read post]
6 Jun 2004, 8:24 am
The Security Council is meeting today to iron out remaining details while President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac continue to discuss differences that have strained the nations' long-time alliance. [read post]
6 Jun 2004, 3:12 am
Sunday's New York Times highlights an Israeli court's sentencing of Palestinian uprising leader Marwan Barghouti to five life terms for the killing of four Israelis and a German monk, and progress made by President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac in resolving their differences over a new UN resolution designed to establish a framework for returning self-rule to Iraq. [read post]
25 Apr 2004, 12:01 am
On April 25, 1792, highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person beheaded by the guillotine in France. [read post]
21 Apr 2004, 1:31 pm
One day after British Prime Minister Tony Blair resolved to "let the people have the final say" on a new constitution for the European Union (see Paper Chase's initial report), French President Jacques Chirac remains uncommitted to the idea of a comparable referendum for French citizens. [read post]
28 Mar 2004, 6:23 pm
A Jordanian lawyer who claims he was appointed to represent Saddam Hussein by the former Iraqi president's daughter is contesting French attorney Jacques Verges's Saturday announcement that he would represent Saddam. [read post]
27 Mar 2004, 4:32 pm
French lawyer and longtime "devil's advocate" Jacques Verges has announced that he will lead a supporting team of twelve French attorneys defending former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in the wake of an official request from one of Hussein's nephews. [read post]
22 Mar 2004, 10:29 am
Meeting with reporters Monday in Paris, French President Jacques Chirac and Irish President Bertie Ahern (whose country currently holds the European Presidency) said it was possible that formal agreement on the new European constitution could be reached at a summit scheduled for June 17 and 18. [read post]
17 Feb 2004, 2:25 am
In Paris Tuesday, French prosecutors said they have appealed against the conviction of former French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, now Mayor of Bordeaux and the head of President Jacque Chirac's political party, who last month received an 18-month suspended sentence and was subjected to a 10-year ban on political activity - essentially ending his political career - after the court found him guilty [read post]
16 Feb 2004, 4:42 am
Francois Leotard, a former French Defense Minister, and Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, a spokesman for President Jacque Chirac's Union for a Popular Movement, were convicted today of illegal party funding and money laundering by a Paris court. [read post]
30 Jan 2004, 9:02 am
AP: "Former French prime minister Alain Juppé was found guilty Friday in a party financing scandal and declared ineligible for public office for 10 years, a decision that the ally of President Jacques Chirac has said would end his political career. [read post]
29 Jan 2004, 9:51 pm
Financial Times: "The political fate of Alain Juppé, the former French prime minister and the man President Jacques Chirac favours to be his successor, hangs on a court verdict due to be pronounced on Friday. [read post]
23 Sep 2003, 9:13 am
Bush (speaking third) and French President Jacques Chirac (speaking fifth). [read post]
25 Apr 2003, 9:20 am
On April 25, 1792, highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person beheaded by the guillotine in France. [read post]
18 Mar 2003, 9:30 am
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac issued a statement Tuesday in Paris assailing the "unilateral decision to go to war" and saying that President Bush's ultimatum to Iraq is "calling into question our idea of international relations". [read post]
11 Mar 2003, 8:00 am
[JURIST] The French Embassy in Washington has posted an English translation of French President Jacques Chirac's interview Monday evening on French TV - the French-language broadcast version of which was featured yesterday in JURIST's Paper Chase - in which he said that France would veto a US-UK resolution authorizing force against Iraq. [read post]
10 Mar 2003, 12:37 pm
[JURIST] French President Jacques Chirac said Monday evening in an interview on French television that France will cast its Security Council veto against a second US-UK draft resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq. [read post]
