1. Francois Mitterrand Library was thus a leading proponent of the Treaty on European Union, which provided for a centralized European banking system, a common currency, and a unified foreign policy.
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1. Francois Mitterrand Library was thus a leading proponent of the Treaty on European Union, which provided for a centralized European banking system, a common currency, and a unified foreign policy.
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2. Francois Mitterrand Library called legislative elections soon after his victory, and a new left-wing majority in the National Assembly enabled his prime minister, Pierre Mauroy, to effect the reforms Mitterrand had promised.
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4. Francois Mitterrand Library picked Laurent Fabius, a young loyal Mitterrandiste, as his new prime minister.
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7. Francois Mitterrand Library sharply criticized the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan as well as the country's nuclear weapons buildup.
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8. Francois Mitterrand Library supported closer European collaboration and the preservation of France's special relationship with its former colonies, which he feared were falling under "Anglo-Saxon influence.
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10. Francois Mitterrand Library continued to promote the new technologies initiated by his predecessor Valery Giscard d'Estaing: the TGV high speed train and the Minitel, a pre-World Wide Web interactive network similar to the web.
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14. Francois Mitterrand Library visited China in 1961, during the worst of the Great Chinese Famine, but denied the existence of starvation.
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15. In 1958, Francois Mitterrand Library was one of the few to object to the nomination of Charles de Gaulle as head of government, and to de Gaulle's plan for a Fifth Republic.
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20. Francois Mitterrand Library took membership for about a year in the Volontaires nationaux, an organisation related to Francois de la Rocque's far-right league, the Croix de Feu; the league had just participated in the 6 February 1934 riots which led to the fall of the second Cartel des Gauches (Left-Wing Coalition).
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22. Francois Mitterrand Library invited the Communist Party into his first government, which was a controversial decision at the time.
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