Michel Rocard, one of Europe’s leading statesmen, was Prime Minister of France from 1988-1991. As Prime Minister he created the Revenu minimum d’insertion social-welfare program and oversaw a decline in unemployment and reform of the state’s financing system. Following his term, he served as First Secretary of the French Socialist Party and as a member of the European Parliament for 15 years.
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Commentaries by Michel Rocard
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Mali and the Islamic Reformation
PARIS – Mali is a landlocked West African country of 15 million people, covering 1,240,000 square kilometers (478,800 square miles), three-q…
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Leaders for a Leaderless World
PARIS – The newspaper commentaries that I write often have a dark perspective. Sadly, this one will be no different. But there are two piece…
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Saving France, Saving Europe
PARIS – The face of French politics changed dramatically in May and June. First, after 17 years of center-right presidents, François Holland…
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France Goes to Hollande
PARIS – France has now conducted its ninth presidential election under direct universal suffrage. And, for the first time in 17 years, after…
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Don’t Blame it on Rio
PARIS – We are little more than a decade into the twenty-first century, but a terrible precedent has already been set: all of the major inte…
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Palestine’s Time
PARIS – This September, Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, took the bold step of directly asking the United Nations to g…
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The Storm after the Calm
PARIS – Could the financial crisis of 2007-2008 happen again? Since the crisis erupted, there has been no shortage of opportunities – in the…
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The Return of the French?
PARIS – How difficult is it to erase one’s past as a colonial power? Tunisia has been independent for 55 years, and Côte d’Ivoire for 51 yea…
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The Bourgeois Roots of Tunisia’s Revolution
PARIS – Tunisia, one of the Arab League’s 22 members, is in the throes of a severe and profound crisis, albeit possibly one with a favorable…
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German Reunification and the New Europe
PARIS – I began writing this column shortly after a remarkable anniversary. October 3, 1990, was the effective date for the implementation o…
Mali and the Islamic Reformation
Julián Muñoz: Nowadays, there is no state that will help or intervene in a conflict without an interest, and France is not the exception. As said in the previous comment, Mali is quite important for the french econ…
Mali and the Islamic Reformation
MK Anon: @Frank, Niger is .. in Niger, not in Mali. And don't worry that the areva plant is now very well secured. And Mali really has little interest for french multinationals. MR re-writes history: * h…