Perhaps the charms of Paris, where representatives from 14 Lebanese parties are to meet next week, will prove more conducive to compromise than crisis-ridden Beirut.
Some board members are keen on a European investment-banking tie-up, perhaps with Banque Nationale de Paris, which recently took control of a rival French bank, Paribas, and which has a longstanding alliance (and small cross-shareholding) with Dresdner.
The most recent and perhaps final example came Tuesday when Paris-based Lagardere Active announced that Alain Lemarchand, who has served as CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. since June 2008, will be stepping down and that former Primedia Enthusiast Media and Source Interlink Media president Steve Parr will take his place.
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It is Fashion Week in Paris right about now, but perhaps we take a look at the markets to get a glimpse of the hot and not so hot trends for the year.
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"Billions of television viewers were able to admire Britain's industrial and financial know-how", commented a writer in Le Monde, perhaps contemplating ruefully what might have been if Paris instead had won the games.
Given that President Jacques Chirac was mayor of Paris from 1977 to 1995, it is perhaps convenient that Mr Dumas's Constitutional Council has ruled that a sitting president cannot be investigated.
It has perhaps already been hinted in the New York press that our army had not expected to take Paris quite so soon.
"Perhaps, however, Jospin has recognised that peace in the Middle East has a greater chance if Paris bolsters Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's position and especially puts the Syrian side in its place, " it says.
Perhaps hoping to inject a sense of fun, Smart is showcasing entirely different technology this year at the Paris Motor Show, which takes turns every other year with the one in Frankfurt.
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