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.
Late last week, Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, paid him a surprise visit.
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Dominique de Villepin's government is under fire both from the Socialist opposition and on the streets.
Last month, the current interior minister, Dominique de Villepin, created yet another Muslim body: the Foundation for Islamic Welfare.
Shortly after the German statement, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said the US resolution fell short of French wishes.
French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin argues that any force operating without a U.N. mandate will do so in a legal vacuum.
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.
The report - given to the interior minister, Dominique de Villepin - concludes that the situation is actually worse than previously thought.
The Council of Christian Churches in France has written to Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, to express concern at the law's harshness.
They account for seven of the past ten prime ministers, including Dominique de Villepin, the current one, as well as President Jacques Chirac.
On Monday evening, Dominique de Villepin, the prime minister, announced new measures aimed at curbing the violence, in effect declaring a state of emergency.
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PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said Libya's decision to abandon its weapons of mass destruction programs was an important move.
His illness sparked renewed competition between the prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, and the interior minister (and young pretender), Nicolas Sarkozy, to be seen as heir apparent.
This week, Dominique de Villepin, the foreign minister, dropped in on five Gulf states to counter the belief that France was proposing an outright ban on the veil.
Almost his only critic has been Dominique de Villepin, a former prime minister and fierce personal rival, who now plans to set up his own party on the right.
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But what was it about Dominique de Villepin that made Mr Chirac appoint him first as chief of staff, then foreign minister, interior minister and finally his prime minister?
France's President Jacques Chirac has already pushed his prime minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin , to fall on his own sword, replacing him with the loyal and statist Dominique de Villepin .
Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin had proposed allowing employers to hire recent graduates on two-year contracts, rather than the lifetime "contracts of indefinite length" that many French regard as a birthright.
The prime minister, Dominique de Villepin, may be the most prolific (and florid) of all, with eight books to his name, including two of poetry and a history of Napoleon's 100 days.
PARIS, France -- France says it will no longer oppose a U.N. resolution to lift sanctions on Libya after UTA bomb victims' families reached a deal, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin said.
Dominique de Villepin, another former prime minister, was forced to abandon a labour-market reform in 2006 after huge street demonstrations and sit-ins, provoked in part by his refusal even to discuss the plan beforehand.
Mr Straw and his French and German counterparts, Dominique de Villepin and Joschka Fischer, reached agreement in Tehran in October on Iranian compliance with the requirements of Mr ElBaradei's agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
In the early stages of the war Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, dodged a question about whether he even wanted the coalition forces to win before rushing out a clarification that of course he favoured victory for the allies.
Several French politicians, including President Jacques Chirac, Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and Segolene Royal, the opposition Socialists' candidate for next year's presidential elections, have publicly appealed to Trichet to consider the euro's impact when making decisions on its monetary policy.
According to testimony leaked to Le Monde, a left-leaning newspaper, General Philippe Rondot, a retired top spy, told the inquiry that Dominique de Villepin, then foreign minister and now prime minister, had asked him to investigate Mr Sarkozy on orders from President Jacques Chirac.
Most noisily, Dominique de Villepin, the former foreign minister now at the interior ministry, called last week for a change of direction in government whatever the referendum result, a comment widely interpreted as a call to replace Mr Raffarin and a declaration of his own candidacy for the job.
And after all, I think you have to recognise that throughout Europe - again it was a point made by Dominique De Villepin - there are differences between governments but by and large public opinion is pretty solid across Europe, and it is critical of any approach to this problem which doesn't involve going through the UN.
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