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Harry Roselmack’s fluid tones, easy manner and sartorial elegance, have won
over French TV viewers. This summer, eight million of them have switched on
to TF1’s prime-time news. Nick Rowswell tries to pierce the secret of his success.
FN In a recent interview, a journalist suggested that the
secret of your success was hard work, sex appeal and a
hint of mystery. Is this true?
HR Well, I don’t think I am particularly mysterious, though
we all have our own private ‘mysteries’. Hard work is
certainly part of my secret success formula and as for sex
appeal, well, I’ll let others be the judge of that. I’ve never
really been conscious of being sexy or played upon my sex
appeal, though I know that image is all-important on TV.
FN Both your parents worked in the public sector. You
could have opted for a similarly secure job for life – why
did you become a journalist?
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Monday, 17 September 2007 |
Ministre du Budget, des comptes publics et de la fonction publique.
Many an enthusiatic new government
planning splendid schemes has come
adrift because of lack of money, and have
had to about-turn hastily. So Woerth holds
the key to the success of Sarkozy and
Fillon’s ambitious reforms. He must juggle
the maths to find the millions which will be
required to finance the promises made
during the electoral campaign.
There are now two full ministers at the
reorganised Ministry of Finance: Christine
Lagarde is the senior, in overall charge of the
economy who would previously have been
assisted by a secrétaire d’état or two. But it’s
Woerth who is responsible for public
finances, and is faced with the problems of
keeping the ‘Sécu’ (social security) afloat, as
well as modernising the civil service or
simplifying administrative formalities, an
operation which usually seems to result in
ever more complex paperwork.
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The Fillon government announced the nonreplacement
of 22,700 of the 80,000 civil
servants retiring next year. Although this is
double the number who were not replaced
last year, it is far from the one-in-every-two
proposed by Sarkozy before his election. The
cuts will not affect all ministries equally: one
in three for Education, for example, but
Justice will actually employ 1,600 more
people to respond to a growing prison
population. In all, cuts are expected to save
€700 to €800 million. Sarkozy assured that,
as promised, the savings will mostly be used
to raise civil servants’ salaries.
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The present jitters in the financial markets
were triggered when the major French
bank, BNP Paribas, announced it was
suspending withdrawals from three of its
funds, worth €1.7 billion in total. This was,
they said, because the underlying assets,
mortgage bonds, had become impossible to
value. This was a considerable shock,
especially after bank chairman Michel
Pébereau’s statement only eight days before
that the sub-prime debt problem could only
affect a tiny percentage of BNP Paribas assets,
and was of no concern to the bank.
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The Conseil constitutionnel, which has to
approve all new legislation, has restricted
tax relief on mortgage interest to new
borrowers only. President Sarkozy has reacted
to this by doubling the intended tax relief to
40% of the interest in the first year on any new
acquisition and making it a crédit d’impôt.
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