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Jean-Pierre Chevènement

Jean-Pierre Chevènement is mayor of Belfort and honorary president of the Republican and Citizen Movement. He was the Defense Minister for the government of Michel Rocard (1988-1991) and Minister of the Interior for the government of Lionel Jospin (1997-2000).

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“A Future-Carrying No”

by Jean-Pierre Chevènement

17 June 2005

Valéry Giscard d’Estaing told that when he sent the ECT to Silvio Berlusconi, the latter used it to swat a fly and said “at least this Constitution was useful for something!” Today, this story takes all its meaning. Jacques Chirac once told me that that text was more a bylaw than a constitution. (…)