capitalism and Communism. Making a lasting virtue out of passing necessity, he duly re-fashioned himself as a leading ‘Europeanist’. France would build a better society through European unification rather than against it. Rather than struggle against capitalism France would invent a superior version. By 1984 Mitterrand had removed the four Communist ministers in his government; publicly proclaimed the virtues of a ‘mixed’ economy; appointed a young and technocratic prime minister, Laurent Fabius; handed the management of economic affairs, finance, and the budget to Jacques Delors, with
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