French President Jacques Chirac
French President Jacques Chirac has given implicit signs that he will not oppose measures announced by new Finance Minister Nicolas Sarkozy to freeze 7 billion euros ($8.4 billion) of expenditures in the 2004 budget, including 1 billion euros for defense.
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