In 1988, a week after the historic meeting in Algiers, former French president François Mitterrand (1916-1996) ... championed by President Jacques Chirac (1932-2019), ...

Under President François Mitterrand, relations with Libya worsened due to the 1983 Libyan invasion of Chad, where French forces intervened under a military cooperation agreement. The Operation Manta ...

Mitterrand and Chirac were to blame, having tried to use the Front National to weaken each other. Le Pen increasingly appeared on TV and exploited polarization of the debate around questions of ...

In 1988, the Liberals and New Democrats wanted to have a televised debate focused solely on the issue of free trade. The PCs were cool to the idea.

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The privatization movement, launched by the governments of former prime ministers Jacques Chirac (1986-1988), Édouard Balladur (1993-1995) and Allain Juppé (1995-1997), was continued by Lionel ...

From the start, when Kamala Harris walked over to Donald Trump‘s side of the presidential debate stage to introduce herself tonight and offer a handshake, the vice president proved to be a very ...

The record holder is the late Michel Rocard – Socialist prime minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991. With only a relative majority in parliament, he relied on it 28 times for 13 ...

In 1988, Mr. Mitterrand, then president, faced his prime minister, Jacques Chirac, ... when Mr. Chirac refused to debate Jean-Marie Le Pen, the far-right leader and Ms. Le Pen’s father.

1988 produced the strange spectacle of a president taking on his own prime minister. Mitterrand and centre-right candidate Jacques ... Chirac refused to have a debate with Le Pen saying ...