Just listen to Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, who came to embody anti-American defiance.
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Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, says the agenda for those talks will be completely open.
So Mr de Villepin changed the law and the imam was on the next plane home.
Late last week, Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, paid him a surprise visit.
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Fittingly, it was on the world stage that Mr de Villepin first truly seduced his compatriots.
Dominique de Villepin's government is under fire both from the Socialist opposition and on the streets.
EADS, a defence firm, who knew Mr de Villepin from a previous stint as a diplomat.
The general now denies that Mr de Villepin ever asked him to investigate Mr Sarkozy.
But Mr de Villepin said the mayor had contravened the French civil code despite a govenrment warning.
Might Mr de Villepin be shaping up as a credible successor to Mr Chirac on the right?
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Mr de Villepin's government is perilously perched: vulnerable to fratricide from within, exposed to discontent from without.
Treading a path through this thicket, Mr de Villepin this week announced surprisingly detailed measures to create jobs.
Last month, the current interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, created yet another Muslim body: the Foundation for Islamic Welfare.
But perhaps his long years outside France gave Mr de Villepin a rather too rosy view of his compatriots?
Mr de Villepin was born the son of a French diplomat in Morocco, and only later moved to France.
Shortly after the German statement, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said the US resolution fell short of French wishes.
Mr de Villepin knows well from his study of French history that forelock-tuggers can quickly turn nasty in a crowd.
An Ipsos poll this week showed a jump in the approval ratings of both Mr Sarkozy and Mr de Villepin.
Mr Chirac has denied that he told Mr de Villepin to set up the inquiry, as General Rondot has testified.
"This confirms the efficiency of the political approach to bringing a peaceful response to the major challenge of proliferation, " said Villepin.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin argues that any force operating without a U.N. mandate will do so in a legal vacuum.
All the while, he and Mr de Villepin's obsessive rivalry over the succession continues to sap France's ability to get policy right.
The centre-right government of Dominique de Villepin has accelerated a renovation programme for tower blocks, which covers 600 of the worst banlieues.
Last week, Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, called for a new euro-area council with the capacity to co-ordinate budget policies.
Mr Sarkozy may be happy to mock a model that produces mass unemployment, but Mr de Villepin believes that tinkering is enough.
ECONOMIST: A prime minister who is doing better than many had expected
Mr de Villepin is surely right to try to reduce joblessness, but he also has a political need to secure results fast.
The report - given to the interior minister, Dominique de Villepin - concludes that the situation is actually worse than previously thought.
And Mr de Villepin hopes to supply more Muslim chaplains to prisons.
The Council of Christian Churches in France has written to Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, to express concern at the law's harshness.
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