President Jacques Chirac may announce a new law next week.

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And Mr Jacques, with the theory it may have been a water supply for early man, believed there could be pristine and ancient archaeology waiting to be discovered.

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France may offer Pascal Lamy, chief of staff to Jacques Delors when Mr Delors was the commission's president.

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So the pendulum may swing back towards someone in the mould of Jacques Delors, the president from 1985 to 1994.

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In May 2010, Mr Buzek released a joint statement with former Commission president Jacques Delors saying that Europe needed a "shift" in the way in which energy is produced and consumed, and calling for the creation of a "European Energy Community".

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France's president, Jacques Chirac, has promised to consult French voters in a referendum before admitting Turkey, and other countries may follow suit.

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