By Jean Claude Dumas

Mr. Jean Claude LORIN

Jean Claude Muriru and Muhanzi Shombo, soldiers.

Photograph of Jean Claude Trichet (c) European Central Bank Andreas Böttcher

PALO ALTO Once upon a time, European Central Bank President Jean Claude Trichet communicated effectively with the outside world. Not anymore.

Their strategy worked. Luxembourg s finance minister, Jean Claude Juncker, diplomatically declared after the December meeting that, The result could have been worse.

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But there is reason for hope. The new Commission, which its president, Jean Claude Juncker, has restructured significantly, could provide Europe with the strategic leadership it so badly needs.

ECNS, October 1 In 2018, a French man named Jean Claude Arnault broke up the pace of the Nobel Prize for being accused of assaulting more than ten women.

(Signed) Claude Morel

Claude Gaspard, sir.

That would be a good thing. With Sarkozy off his back, ECB President Jean Claude Trichet might feel freer to cut interest rates to counter the impending economic slowdown in Europe.

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Money room. Claude here.

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Gaspard, Claude? That's me.

Hello, who? Gaspard, Claude?

Claude Mollet is expecting us.

Pardon me for laughing, Claude.

Hello! Are you Gaspard, Claude?

DUBLIN One of the top priorities established by European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker ahead of his election last summer was the creation of a European energy union. He was right to do so.

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So far, the social partners, as ECB president Jean Claude Trichet likes to call the unions, have been quiet. Should this change, the ECB will have to raise rates even if Europe s economic growth remains slack.

Approval of fundamental changes in the currency union must be agreed by all members, and so will not be forthcoming. Nor will ECB President Jean Claude Trichet be intimidated by French pressure to pursue a softer monetary policy.

With European interest rates up 200 basis points since late 2005 and the euro near a record high, Sarkozy wants the ECB to stop raising rates now. ECB president Jean Claude Trichet and the Governing Council strongly disagree.

The announcement by the President of the European Central Bank, Jean Claude Trichet, that interest rates would be raised at the next meeting of the bank s Governing Council on December 1st,could be a defining moment in his presidency.

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Mr. Claude Lanvers, Deputy Prefect for Urban Policy

Claude Mollet. The power of the press, huh?

I'm Claude Gaspard. I was in Block 8.

Gaspard, Claude, Block 11 cell 6. That's right.

Ah, that Claude Paisley is just too much.

There's somebody in there. The counter's down. Where's Claude?

I'm Claude Paisley. Kim McAfee's my student in English.

Blue Jean

Jean Leques