Jacques Chirac has criticised Margaret Thatcher's handling of the 1981 Irish hunger strike in which ten IRA prisoners died, in his much-awaited memoirs published this week. The 76-year-old former French president launches the...
There is little public appetite in France to see Jacques Chirac become the first former head of state to stand trial. Since leaving office in 2007, Mr Chirac has turned from unpopular president into grandfather of the nation....