After decades of near-silence surrounding such persecutions in wartime France, former prime minister Lionel Jospin publicly addressed the issue in 2001, launching a process of recognition that was ...

Former France international footballers Robert Pires and Djibril Cisse and UFC fighter Ciryl Gane were also in attendance alongside former French Prime Ministers Gabriel Attal and Lionel Jospin.

It paid off in 2002, when he unexpectedly beat the Socialist PM Lionel Jospin into third place in the first round of the presidential election, with 17% of the vote. He'd benefitted from the left ...

In 2002, his 17 per cent of the vote was more than that of Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, propelling Mr Le Pen into a runoff against President Jacques Chirac. The French political ...

Just four days before the first round of the 2002 French presidential election, the then-Socialist prime minister Lionel Jospin, relaxed and smiling, sat down with a mischievous reporter keen for ...

At its peak, his party won almost 17 percent of the vote in the presidential election of 2002, outstripping socialist Lionel Jospin in a surprise upset in the first round of voting that allowed ...

PERKS OF BEING A PRIME MINISTER — It’s been more than 15 years since either Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Lionel Jospin held the office of prime minister in France ...

PARIS — It’s been years since either Bernard Cazeneuve, Dominique de Villepin, Jean-Pierre Raffarin and Lionel Jospin held the office of prime minister in France, but taxpayers are still spending more ...

Roussel's first real break in politics came aged 28 when he became an adviser to Michelle Demissine, a tourism minister under prime minister Lionel Jospin.

In France, the standard work week is 35 hours – per a law adopted in 2000 under the administration of Prime Minister Lionel Jospin – and there's been a push to whittle it down even further ...

Relations were much easier later on when Chirac, as president, found himself in a cohabitation with socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, whom he knew well. Macron and RN frontrunner Jordan ...

There have been three periods of cohabitation in the past: 1997-2002 Socialist Lionel Jospin was prime minister under centre-right President Jacques Chirac 1993-95 Centre-right Prime Minister ...