y ago, the need for it is greater. Why? Because all the great underlying motivators of the European project back in the days of Helmut Kohl, Francois Mitterrand and Jacques Delors, and even more so in the time of the founding fathers, have faded or disappeared. Those powerful driving forces included searing p

, which entrenched rights and enfeebled responsibility. That he was elected president showed that France, deep in its soul, knew it had to escape the Mitterrand-Chirac rut with its glut of erudition and its glob of inaction. That was heartening. The sanctimonious attacks on him from the left oozed the paraly

d the Mediterranean, and "Greece should never have been allowed in". Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outset

r have been allowed in". HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029562 --- PAGE BREAK --- Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outset

d the Mediterranean, and "Greece should never have been allowed in". Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outset

er have been allowed in" Why were the weaker economies given entry? HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029668 --- PAGE BREAK --- Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outset

nd the Mediterranean, and "Greece should never have been allowed in" Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outset

he Mediterranean, and "Greece should never have been allowed in". Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outs

the Mediterranean, and "Greece should never have been allowed in". Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outs

he Mediterranean, and "Greece should never have been allowed in". Why were the weaker economies given entry? Keating says: "It's because president Mitterrand and the French wanted it. They weren't ready to sit beside the German unified state without some friends." So the eurozone was flawed from the outs

r with French President, Frangois Mitterrand. Elie and his wife speak fluent French but I do not and neither did the two other couples at the dinner. Mitterrand spoke passable English but he insisted on conducting the entire conversation in French, with a British translator at his side. At one point, Mitterra