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	Jean-Pierre Raffarin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin listen (♫) (born August 3, 1948) is a French conservative politician and senator of Vienne.
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin served as the Prime Minister of France from May 6, 2002 to May 31, 2005, resigning after France's rejection of the referendum on the European Union draft constitution.
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin was often teased for his optimistic aphorisms, known colloquially and ironically as raffarinades, the best known being La route est droite, mais la pente est forte ("The road is straight, but the slope is steep").
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Pierre_Raffarin (999 words)

	Biography of The Prime Minister of France- Mr. Jean-Pierre Raffarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin was born on Aug. 3, 1948, in Poitiers.
		Raffarin was a municipal councillor for the city of Poitiers and then became a member and chairman of the Poitou-Charentes regional council and a member of the Senate for the Vienne constituency.
		Raffarin was appointed Minister for Small and Medium-size Business, Trade and Small Industry, a post he retained until 1997 when he became vice-president of the Démocratie libérale party.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /department/focus/bio_raffarin-en.asp (236 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Profile: Jean-Pierre Raffarin
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the new prime minister of France, is a 53-year-old moderate right-wing senator from the free-market Liberal Democracy party (DL).
		A public relations expert, Mr Raffarin is seen as a figure who can appeal to a broad section of the right, while embodying a consensual approach that may also keep some left-wing voters on side.
		It is also thought that Mr Raffarin's government will take on the issue of pension reform, an issue which could spark protests on the streets of Paris if not handled with care.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1970512.stm (397 words)

	Jean-Pierre Raffarin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin (born August 3, 1948) is a French conservative politician.
		This was generally interpreted, including by Raffarin himself, as a gesture of no-confidence against the government from the electorate.
		On March 30, Jean-Pierre Raffarin tendered the resignation of his government to president Chirac, who immediately re-appointed him prime minister, with the charge to form a new government.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/jean_pierre_raffarin (666 words)

	Charest, Jean on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jean Charest a rendu hommage aux soldats québécois tombés le 6 juin 1944
		Pierre Raffarin (G) et Jean Charest Le Premier ministre français Jean-Pierre Raffarin et les nouveaux dirigeants du Québec.
		Jean Charest, leader du Parti libéral québecois, en novembre 1998 Les Québécois ont porté triomphalement lundi à la tête d.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/c/charestj1.asp (794 words)

	Monsieur Nice Woos the Lower Class
		The Prime Minister, Jean-Pierre Raffarin, is on a pilgrimage round the country to sell his plans to trim the power of the Parisian elites and give more authority to the country's 22 regions.
		The dynamic forces in the country are the provinces, Raffarin says, having noticed that the call for a move to the Right in this year's elections, including law and order, anti-immigration policies and pension reform, came from a reactionary senior-citizen vote outside the capital.
		Raffarin's one-time sports and youth adviser, Pierre Beneteau, 64, a retired gym teacher, lives at the wrong end of the Vienne in what he calls ' la France d'en bas de la France d'en bas '.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/7-20-2002-22841.asp (782 words)

	CNN.com - French PM leaves hospital - May 10, 2005
		Raffarin is at the center of speculation that Chirac will dismiss him after the May 29 EU referendum.
		Raffarin, 56, had gallstones removed on Saturday after his gall bladder became acutely inflamed.
		Raffarin was admitted to the Val de Grace military hospital in Paris late Saturday morning for the surgery.
	edition.cnn.com /2005/WORLD/europe/05/10/raffarin.hospital (327 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| New French PM names cabinet
		Mr Raffarin was named yesterday as prime minister by Mr Chirac, the day after he trounced the far-right's Jean-Marie Le Pen in the presidential poll.
		Mr Chirac's choice of Mr Raffarin, who is seen as a grass-roots consensus politician, is widely seen as a move to tackle the alienation from politics blamed in part for Mr Le Pen's shock first round success.
		A BBC correspondent in Paris says Mr Raffarin is economically conservative, but socially liberal, and his appointment seems to be Mr Chirac's way of countering accusations that he will have to pander to Mr Le Pen's extremist views.
	newsvote.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/europe/newsid_1972000/1972099.stm (760 words)

	Raffarin, Jean-Pierre. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		From a political family, he began his career in business and served as a spokesman for a labor minister in the late 1970s before returning to the private sector.
		A conservative, Raffarin turned permanently to politics in 1988 when he became president of the Poitou-Charentes regional council; shortly thereafter he was elected to the European Parliament.
		The low-key, self-effacing Raffarin was appointed interim premier after the president’s reelection in May, 2002, replacing Lionel Jospin.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ra/RaffarinJP.html (201 words)

	HARIAN UMUM SUARA MERDEKA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Raffarin, a moderate right-wing senator and head of the Poitou-Charentes regional council in western France, will now form a government that will be at the center of the conservative campaign to win parliamentary elections on June 9 and 16.
		Chirac, 69, who campaigned on a platform pledging reforms to boost the French economy and action on crime, was reelected on Sunday by the highest margin in the 44-year history of the Fifth Republic.
		Though the son of a former government minister, Raffarin has a grass-roots image that has become his trump card as voters turn against the capital to demand more power at the local and regional level and politicians who understand their concerns.
	www.suaramerdeka.com /harian/0205/08/eng4.htm (704 words)

	JEAN-PIERRE RAFFARIN FACTS AND INFORMATION
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin (born August_3, 1948) is a French conservative politician and senator of Vienne.
		On March_30, 2004 Jean-Pierre Raffarin tendered the resignation of his government to president Jacques Chirac, who immediately re-appointed him prime minister, with the delegation to form a new government.
		Foreign Affairs being by constitutional convention one of the President's solely responsibilities, it is safe to assume that these remarks were made at President Chirac's demand.
	www.beatlesfacts.com /Jean-Pierre_Raffarin (861 words)

	Agence France Presse French: Johannesburg: Jean-Pierre Raffarin appelle à la mobilisation@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin aux Journées nationales du Développement durable lundi à Rennes
		Le premier ministre Jean-Pierre Raffarin a appelé lundi à Rennes à la mobilisation des pouvoirs publics et de la société civile pour que le 2ème sommet de la Terre de Johannesburg aboutisse à des "résultats concrets".
		Le premier ministre Jean-Pierre Raffarin a appelé lundi à Rennes à la mobilisation des pouvoirs publics et de la société civile pour que le 2ème sommet de...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:54024196&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (169 words)

	Embassy of France in the U.S. - Jean-Pierre Raffarin
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin has pursued his career in both business and public life.
		In December 1988, Jean-Pierre Raffarin was first elected Chairman of Poitou-Charentes Regional Council, where he succeeded Louis Fruchard and René Monory (re-elected in 1992 and 1998).
		Raffarin was appointed Prime Minister on May 6, 2002./.
	www.info-france-usa.org /atoz/bio/bio_raffarin.asp (392 words)

	CNN.com - Chirac keeps Raffarin as French PM - Mar 30, 2004
		Commentators had predicted Jean-Pierre Raffarin would be sacked but on Tuesday he left the presidential palace in Paris smiling after hearing he would keep his job.
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin as the prime minister and asked him to form a new government," the presidency said, adding that the new team would be announced on Wednesday.
		The decision shocked many commentators because Sunday's defeat had been interpreted as a vote of no-confidence in Raffarin and his economic policies, and it raised further doubts about the pace and depth of cost-cutting reforms.
	cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/30/france.vote (493 words)

	CNN.com - Chirac appoints new prime minister - May 6, 2002
		Chirac was voted in for a second term on Sunday in a landslide defeat for Le Pen.
		Although Raffarin is little-known outside political circles, he played a key role in Chirac's re-election campaign and observers say his relative obscurity could be an asset as the president seeks to counter widespread perceptions that the Parisian power elite is arrogant and isolated.
		French President Jacques Chirac appoints conservative Sen. Jean-Pierre Raffarin as interim prime minister.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/05/06/france.president (636 words)

	Nicole, Pierre on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fallece Pierre Salinger, portavoz del presidente Kennedy (familia)
		Nicole Fontaine Jean-Pierre Raffarin a déclaré jeudi dans un communiqué que sa ministre de l'Industrie Nicole Fontaine éta.
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin et l'ancien ministre de l'Education nationale Luc Ferry jeudi à Matignon De Nicole Fontaine à Francis.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/n/nicole-p1.asp (689 words)

	Master of Disaster - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com
		When Raffarin became prime minister in June 2002, he was initially admired for his accessibility in a country where powerful officials often remain aloof.
		Raffarin was quite literally nowhere to be seen as emergency rooms overflowed and the elderly were dying of dehydration in their homes.
		But ironically, given that Raffarin is a former marketing man, his government has been woe-fully maladroit at communicating its programs and proposed solutions to the public.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3540616 (1288 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Reforms needed in France's 35-hour workweek, Raffarin says
		PARIS – Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said France's 35-hour workweek stemmed from a "bad law" in need of change, but he vowed in an interview published Sunday that reforms in the French workplace would not create a "social jungle."
		Last week, workers at a Robert Bosch GMBH plant near Lyon voted to work an extra hour each week for no extra pay in order to prevent the company from moving to the Czech Republic, where labor is cheaper.
		Raffarin also said he was "optimistic but prudent" about France's economy, which he forecast would grow at a rate above 2.3 percent this year.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040725-0644-france-workweek.html (270 words)

	Raffarin, Jean-Pierre on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin et le ministre de l'Intérieur Dominique de Villepin le 9 août dernier à Combloux Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin à l'Assemblée nationale en juillet 2002 Le Premier ministre Jean-Pierre Raffarin assure qu'il quitter.
		Jean-Pierre Raffarin mercredi à l'Assemblée nationale Le Premier ministre Jean-Pierre Raffarin s'est déclaré partisan d'un.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RaffarinJ1P1.asp (712 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Chirac confirmed Jean-Pierre Raffarin as his prime minister following the right's overwhelming victory in the second round of the French general elections.
		The heavyweights on the left in marginal seats were the main casualties in the swing to the right in the general election run-off.
		The "family photograph" of EU leaders at this week's summit in Seville will be an uncomfortable moment for Gerhard Schröder and Tony Blair.
	news.ft.com /servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/Page/SpecialLevel1&cid=1018260679563 (151 words)

	Decentralisation, Jean-Pierre Raffarin's challenge
		He sees himself as the successor of Gaston Deferre, initiator of this method and from which the decentralisation laws of 1982 contributed to free the local governments of the custody of the Prefects.
		For J.P. Raffarin, to decentralise is to simplify, it is to put proximity along side complexity, it is to release at the top that which blocks the system, it is to put within the reach of the French and the voters more legibility in the management and the decisions which concern them.
		Furthermore, Jean Marc Eyraud considers that things are badly engaged, whereas Claude Estier evokes the grave consequences that the vague and improvised part of the text could have.
	www.ambitions-sud.net /n33/n33en-decentralisation.htm (1880 words)

	Bell is Tolling for Raffarin
		The stinging rebuke delivered to Jean-Pierre Raffarin and his centre-right government in the regional elections on Sunday will probably cost the French prime minister his job, analysts and commentators have said.
		The financial daily Les Echos said the "bell is tolling" for Mr Raffarin, elected on a near-landslide in June 2002.
		Also, all commentators focused on the ominous symbolism of the humiliating first-round performance of Elisabeth Morin, Mr Raffarin's chosen successor as president of the western Poitou-Charentes region that he ran for 14 years.
	www.buzzle.com /editorials/3-22-2004-52042.asp (649 words)

	Single Malt Pundit.com
		At the outset of a three-day visit to China, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said he supported Beijing’s “anti-secession” law on Taiwan, and vowed to keep pushing for an end to an EU arms embargo that could open the door for Paris to sell weapons to the Asian giant.
		If France does something this massively stupid and irresponsible, and China invades Taiwan, they should be kicked out of the EU, their permanent seat on the UN Security Council revoked (along with China’s), and they should face severe economic sanctions.
		Prime Minister Raffarin has just stated that he’s pefectly fine with starting the next world war, and they’d love to sell the weapons needed to fight it.
	www.jayreding.com /archives/2005/04/21/france-wants-to-start-the-next-world-war (860 words)

	French prime minister undergoes surgery - Europe - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A source from the prime minister’s office said Raffarin will be in charge of the state when President Jacques Chirac leaves for Moscow on Sunday night for celebrations of the 1945 victory over Adolf Hitler.
		Raffarin, who earlier canceled a trip to the eastern city of Reims to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, will not, however, attend celebrations in Paris on Sunday.
		Raffarin’s popularity hit a new low in an opinion poll published Friday, deepening doubts that he will keep his job after this month’s referendum on the European Union constitution.
	msnbc.msn.com /id/7773232 (401 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Madame La Ministre -- Jul. 1, 2002/Vol. 160 No. 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But her appointment was described by some observers as proof of Raffarin's determination to assemble a government attentive to — and comprising — all segments of French social and political life.
		When her term as justice expired in 2001, she continued advising the E.U. and was putting together a private legal practice specializing in bioethics issues when she received the call from Raffarin.
		But her easygoing demeanor, eagerness to drop French for English to facilitate discussion and engaging discourse (perfected during teaching stints at Columbia and Yale Universities in the U.S.) should diminish the acidity of debate, though perhaps not resolve underlying differences.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/printout/0,13155,901020701-265376,00.html (675 words)

	CNN.com - Chirac to act soon over poll rout - Mar 29, 2004
		A Cabinet reshuffle was widely predicted on Monday and the fate of unpopular welfare reforms hung in the balance, one day after opposition Socialists swept to victory in mid-term polls.
		Media commentators on Monday saw the defeat as a rejection of Raffarin's government and its reforms of health care and the social security system.
		Daily newspapers on both sides of the political divide said the government would be forced to change course and even discussed the possibility of an early general election.
	edition.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/europe/03/29/france.vote (639 words)

	Bangla Immigrants Go Back, Madonna Not Pregnant, Jean Pierre Raffarin Arrives
		Raffarin was speaking to reporters in Bangalore where he arrived on a three-day official visit to India.
		Raffarin said France was committed to avoiding war and asked Iraqi regime to cooperate with the visiting UN weapon inspectors in destroying its mass weapons.
		Regarding Pakistan-India relations, he had forecast end of the border tension by December 4 last year and the news that India would complete troop withdrawal by December 4 is a confirmation of the accuracy of his predictions.
	www.indiatraveltimes.com /news/feb03/feb0603.html (951 words)

	French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Tells Bush 'It's Not a Game, It's Not Over'
		The comment, made by Raffarin during a visit to India, was in response to Bush's remark on Thursday that "the game is over" for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
		Raffarin's statement followed talks with Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.
		Raffarin, who broke into English to say that the crisis over Iraq was not a game, also said there was an alternative to war.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article1258.htm (543 words)

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