Édouard Balladur, who has died aged 97, was a centre-Right French politician who served as prime minister under President François Mitterrand from March 1993; he began as a favourite to win the presid...
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Édouard Balladur, a former French prime minister who stoutly defended his country’s contentious intervention in Rwanda’s genocide, and who fought into his 90s to be cleared of involvement in a long-ru...
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For many months before the 1995 French presidential election, Édouard Balladur, the incumbent prime minister, seemed certain of victory. Opinion polls consistently gave him a lead over his conservativ...
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Former French Prime Minister Edouard Balladur has died at the age of 97, his family told the AFP news agency. A private mass service is now planned for Balladur, who died in Paris on Monday, the famil...
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President Emmanuel Macron said Balladur was a man who "had France at heart" and a "devoted servant of the nation", while former president Nicolas Sarkozy said he had lost "an example, a mentor and a friend". "Tonight, I mourn the loss of one of the men who mattered most in my life, " Sarkozy wrote on social media platform X. The family told French news agency AFP that a private mass will be held for Balladur, without giving further details. Born in the Turkish city of Smyrna, today called Izmir,...
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Édouard Balladur , who served as France’s powerful economy minister and later prime minister during a period of fierce political rivalry, died Monday in Paris at the age of 97. Throughout his career i...
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