Laurent Fabius, France's man of delayed destiny.(finance minister )(Brief Article)

The Economist (US) | April 1, 2000 | Copyright

APPEARANCES are, of course, deceptive. Sensible observers of British politics do not read too much into Tony Blair's perpetually goofy grin or into the gloomy scowl so often fixed to the face of Gordon Brown, his finance minister. After all, Mr Blair is known to be serious, and Mr Brown has been seen to laugh. But what of Laurent Fabius, appointed this week by the French prime minister, Lionel Jospin, to be his third finance minister in less than five months? Mr Fabius's natural expression is a self-satisfied smirk. Perhaps it, too, is misleading.

Or perhaps not, ...

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