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Jean-Marie Colombani

Jean-Marie Colombani President of the management board and chief editor of the daily French Le Monde. He was one of the major architects of the recapitalization of this daily that made the main French economic groups to take its control.

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“A dead end”

by Jean-Marie Colombani

13 June 2005

The French “no” to the European Constitution was not an accident, but the result of a debate as few of them have taken place in the history of that country. The citizens were able to know the main articles as well as the statements made by the advocates from both sides. But they failed to (…)

“We All (are) European”

by Jean-Marie Colombani

8 May 2005

In a month now, the French will have said yes or no to the constitutional treaty. A dozen of countries will follow them. The rest, by tradition or prudence, will hold their parliamentarians responsible for the ratification. The elementary parliamentary prudence was abandoned in France in the (…)