Laurent Fabius (born 1946) was the Socialist wunderkind of French politics in the 1980s. He was not yet forty when President François Mitterrand named him prime minister in 1984 and gave him primary responsibility for producing an economic...

France's Minister of the Economy, Finance and Industry Hours after Prime Minister Lionel Jospin named Laurent Fabius his new minister of the economy, finance and industry, Socialist Senator Henri Weber hailed the new cabinet member as "the right man in the right...

A deeper shade of red: fulminating Fabius The French Socialist Party lurches left A FEW months ago, France's Socialist grandees talked of a split in the 100-year-old party. The left was in disarray after a breakaway camp, led by Laurent Fabius,...

The French have had it rough of late.They proved powerless to prevent war in Iraq _ tough for a nation that thinks its opinion should count.They're worried about globalization, global warming and the Chinese economic juggernaut. And their aspirations of being a leader of Europe...

Political leader Dominique de Villepin, the impassioned voice of French opposition to the U.S. war in Iraq, was formally accused Friday of complicity in a tawdry campaign to smear his rival Nicolas Sarkozy's reputation and presidential aspirations.A silver-haired intellectual who has served as foreign minister,...