Sarkozy still protects the veteran Francophone African leaders as shown by the demotion of Jean-Marie Bockel the Secretary of State for Cooperation and Francophonie on 18 March to Secretary of State for Defence and Former Servicemen...
Two politicians – South Africa’s highly effective Finance Minister Trevor Manuel and France’s forthright Cooperation Minister Jean-Marie Bockel – are adding to the pressure on international institutions to do more to regulate financial abuses such as transfer pricing and mispricing which facilitate the illicit transfer of more than US$50 billion a year out of Africa...
Vol 48 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
French Cooperation Minister Jean-Marie Bockel is due in Niamey on 4 August to smooth ties with President Mamadou Tandja...
Vol 48 No 13 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
A second round of appointments sees Jean-Marie Bockel - like Kouchner a Socialist - take over Coopération and Francophonie as one of the Quai's three state secretaries...