PARIS: It takes a Gaullist president to undermine the foreign policies France has pursued ever since the presidency of General Charles de Gaulle. Of course, this is not an out-and-out insubordination from de Gaulle's world and European vision. But in many ways President Jacques Chirac is distancing himself from his hero's foreign policy ideas and structures.
PARIS: It takes a Gaullist president to undermine the foreign policies France has pursued ever since the presidency of General Charles de Gaulle. Of course, this is not an out-and-out insubordination from de Gaulle's world and European vision. But in many ways President Jacques Chirac is distancing himself from his hero's foreign policy ideas and structures.